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Mya truncata (truncate softshell; truncate softshell clam)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Mya truncata, common name the blunt gaper or truncate softshell, is a species of edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Myidae.
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Attributes

Maximum Longevity [1]  28 years

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Fehmarnbelt 69170 Germany  
Kadetrinne 24728 Germany  
SPA Östliche Deutsche Bucht 774707 Germany      
Stora Middelgrund och Röde bank 28195 Sweden  
Sylter Außenriff 1313190 Germany      

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Citations

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♦ 1Degen R & Faulwetter S (2019) The Arctic Traits Database – a repository of Arctic benthic invertebrate traits, Earth System Science Data 11: 301-322. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-301-2019
♦ 2CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
♦ 4Acquarone, M. 2004: Body composition, field metabolic rate and feeding ecology of walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) in northeast Greenland. PhD thesis. National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark. 142 pp.
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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