Lithophaga truncata
Appearance
Lithophaga truncata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Bivalvia |
Order: | Mytilida |
Family: | Mytilidae |
Genus: | Lithophaga |
Species: | L. truncata
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Binomial name | |
Lithophaga truncata (Gray, 1843)
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Lithophaga truncata is a date mussel, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae.
References
[edit]- Miller M & Batt G, Reef and Beach Life of New Zealand, William Collins (New Zealand) Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1973
- Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1