Elongated Mussel

Jolya elongata

• Group: Other

This slender mussel lives on the continental shelf in soft sediment, wrapping itself in a nest of byssal threads. In the South China Sea it cocoons within that woven case, anchored against the shifting bottom.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Bivalvia › Mytilida › Modiolidae › Jolya

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 506050.