Pink Tellin

Moerella hilaris

• Group: Other

A delicate pink shelled clam that burrows in intertidal sand and mud, including in mangrove areas. It lives buried in the soft seabed, drawing in water through its siphons to filter out drifting food.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Bivalvia › Cardiida › Tellinidae › Moerella

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 878784.