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Modiolus patagonicus (d'Orbigny 1842)

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

McClain Bivalve Sizes

101 mm

(max)
Shelled animal body mass

37 mm

(adult, single measurement)
Femorale

37 mm

(adult, single measurement)

body volume

Shelled animal body mass

4.89 cm^3

(adult, single measurement)
Literature body sizes, bivalves

74.7 cm^3

(average)

cellularity

Cellularity and growth form
multicellular
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993

Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]

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forms

ecology literature
marine reef
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000029

Definition: A biome expressed by strips or ridges of rocks, sand, or coral that rises to or near the surface of a body of marine water.

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(adult)
Brusca and Brusca, 2003
marine reef
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000029

Definition: A biome expressed by strips or ridges of rocks, sand, or coral that rises to or near the surface of a body of marine water.

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(adult)

geographic distribution

Argentina Species List
Argentina
URI: http://www.geonames.org/3865483

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mineralized skeleton contains

Mineralogy
calcium carbonate
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_3311

Definition: A carbonate salt that has formula CO3Ca

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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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shell height, bivalve

McClain Bivalve Sizes

101 mm

(max)

shell length, bivalve

McClain Bivalve Sizes

52 mm

(max)

type specimen repository

GBIF national node type records UK

NHMUK
GBIF national node type records UK

NHMUK

wet body mass

Shelled animal body mass

8.55 g

(adult, single measurement)
Literature body sizes, bivalves

129 g

(average)