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Miyagi Oyster

Crassostrea gigas

Body symmetry

Namigai et al 2014
bilaterally symmetric
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324

Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves

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body length

Femorale

153 mm

(adult, single measurement)

body volume

Literature body sizes, bivalves

23100 cm^3

(average)

geographic distribution

Norway Species List
Norway
URI: http://www.geonames.org/3144096

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reproduction

Fairbairn 2013
sexual reproduction
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0019953

Definition: Capable of creating a new organism by combining the genetic material of two gametes, which may come from two parent organisms or from a single organism, in the case of self-fertilizing hermaphrodites.

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wet body mass

Literature body sizes, bivalves

40000 g

(average)