Bivalve

Neotrapezium sublaevigatum

• Group: Other

This bivalve turns up between the tides among rock and sand, and also lower down where it anchors by tough byssus threads to pilings and the undersides of boulders. It tolerates the brackish water of mangroves, a habit not many clams manage.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Bivalvia › Venerida › Trapezidae › Neotrapezium

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 504757.