Pitar dione
| Pitar dione | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Veneroida |
| Family: | Veneridae |
| Genus: | Pitar |
| Species: | P. dione |
| Binomial name | |
| Pitar dione (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Venus dione | |
Pitar (Hysteroconcha) dione, or the elegant Venus clam, is a species of bivalve mollusc in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams. This species is found in the Gulf of Mexico, from eastern Mexico to the West Indies.[1]
This species is unusual in that it has a double series of long, curved spines on the posterior slope of each valve. A closely related species which occurs in the Eastern Pacific is Pitar lupanaria.
References
- ↑ Abbott, R.T. & Morris, P.A. A Field Guide to Shells: Altantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 68-69.
External links
- Venus dione, part of the Encyclopædia Romana by James Grout.