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Lutraria lutraria (otter shell)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Lutraria lutraria is a species of large marine bivalve mollusc in the family Mactridae. Its common names include the otter shell and the common otter shell. It occurs in coastal regions of the north east Atlantic Ocean where it lives buried in the sand.
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Infraspecies

Lutraria elliptica elliptica

Predators

Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Smokie)[1]
Octopus vulgaris (common octopus)[1]
Pleuronectes platessa (European plaice)[1]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0