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Donax variabilis (variable coquina)

Synonyms: Donax bella; Donax protractus; Donax roemeri; Donax variabilis roemeri; Serrula variabilis

Wikipedia Abstract

Donax variabilis, known by the common name "coquina" or "digger boy", is a species of small edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Donacidae, the bean clams. It is a warm water species which occurs in shallow water on sandy beaches of the East Coast of the USA.
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Infraspecies

Donax roemeri roemeri

Predators

Lampris guttatus (Sunfish)[1]
Melanogrammus aeglefinus (Smokie)[1]
Ocypode quadrata (Atlantic ghost crab)[2]
Pogonias cromis (Sea drum)[1]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 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.
♦ 2LOCOMOTOR BEHAVIOR OF NOCTURNAL GHOST CRABS ON THE BEACH: FOCAL ANIMAL SAMPLING AND INSTANTANEOUS VELOCITY FROM THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOTION ANALYSIS, RANDI B. WEINSTEIN, The Journal of Experimental Biology 198, 989–999 (1995)
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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