Barnea candida

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Barnea candida
Barnea candida
Barnea candida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Myoida
Family: Pholadidae
Genus: Barnea
Species: B. candida
Binomial name
Barnea candida
(Linnaeus, 1758)

Barnea candida is a bivalve salt water mollusc.

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[edit] Description

The shell is long and covered in horizontal ribs, crossed by vertical ribs, forming a structure. On the intersections are Op de kruispunten staan scale formed spikes. A narrow and curved edge is located on the inside of the shell.

[edit] Size

  • Length: up to 50 mm
  • Width: up to 20 mm.

[edit] Colour

Chalk-white, yellow-white or grey.

[edit] Fossil

Barnea candida is common in the North Sea region in deposits from the Holocene, the Eemian interglacial and late Middle Pleistocene.

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[edit] References

  • (Dutch) Bruyne, R.H. de, 1991. Schelpen van de Nederlandse kust. Jeugdbondsuitgeverij Stichting Uitgevrij KNNV, 165 pag.
  • (Dutch) Bruyne, R.H. de, 2004. Veldgids Schelpen. KNNV Uitgeverij, ISBN 90-5011-140-8, 234 pag.
  • (Dutch) Bruyne, R.H. de, Bank, R.A., Adema, J.P.H.M. & Perk, F.A., 1994. Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en België. Feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestigjarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging. Backhuys, Leiden. 149 pp. ISBN 90-733-48-33-1
  • (Dutch) Janssen, A.W., Peeters, G.A. & Slik, L. van der, 1984. De fossiele schelpen van de Nederlandse stranden en zeegaten, tweede serie, 8 (slot). Basteria, 48: 89-220.
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