Image of Bladderclam
Description:
The shell is thin, and along the ventral edges is mostly yellowish-brown periostracum. In this view of a live individual, the thin, flexible periostracum along the ventral margin has distorted when the animal closed, forming into two nearly parallel plates.
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- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
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- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Spiralia (spiralians)
- Mollusca (molluscs)
- Bivalvia (bivalves)
- Euheterodonta
- Anomalodesmata
- Pandoroidea
- Lyonsiidae (Lyonsia Clams)
- Mytilimeria
- Mytilimeria nuttalli (Bladderclam)
- Heterodonta
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