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Lettered Carpet Shell

Tapes literatus (Linnaeus 1758)

Takaaki Hattori   cc-by-nc-4.0

Tapes literatus (Lettered Carpet Shell) is a species of mussels in the family venus clams. Individuals can grow to 10.8 cm. They have 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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EOL has data for 13 attributes, including:

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of lettered carpet shell. View this species on GBIF