Pacific Coast Angel Wing

Pholas chiloensis

• Group: Other
• For divers: safe

An angelwing clam of rocky shores and mangrove deadwood, it bores into firm substrate and timber with the rasping front of its brittle white shell. It lives in the intertidal of the eastern Pacific, wedged into the burrow it has carved for itself.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Bivalvia › Myida › Pholadidae › Pholas

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 507031.