Trachycardium isocardia

Trachycardium isocardia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Veneroida
Family: Cardiidae
Genus: Trachycardium
Species: T. isocardia
Binomial name
Trachycardium isocardia
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Trachycardium isocardia, or the West Indian prickly cockle, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Cardiidae. It can be found along coast of the West Indies.[1]

References

  1. Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. A Field Guide to Shells: Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 57-58.
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