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Aulacomya atra (ribbed mussel)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Aulacomya atra (often misspelled Aulacomya ater), called also the Magellan mussel or the ribbed mussel, is a southern species of edible saltwater mussel, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Mytilidae, the true mussels. Note that the common name ribbed mussel is also used of the Northern Hemisphere mussel Geukensia demissa. In Southern Africa the species grows up to 90 mm in length. It usually lives in crowded intertidal beds. Individual animals have brown ribbed shells, which darken to black with age.
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Infraspecies

Aulacomya atra atra
Aulacomya atra capensis

Predators

Anisotremus scapularis (Peruvian grunt)[1]
Jasus lalandii (Cape rock lobster)[2]
Octopus mimus[3]
Semicossyphus darwini (Goldspot sheepshead)[4]
Trophon geversianus (Gevers's Trophon)[5]

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♦ 1Alimentación y relaciones tróficas de peces costeros de la zona norte de Chile, Marianela Medina, Miguel Araya & Claudio Vega, Invest. Mar., Valparaíso, 32(1): 33-47, 2004
♦ 2Predator-prey relationships between the rock lobster Jasus lalandii and the mussel Aulacomya ater at Robben Island on the Cape West Coast of Africa, D. E. Pollock, Marine Biology, Volume 52, Number 4 / December, 1979, pages 347-356
♦ 3Feeding dynamics of Octopus mimus (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) in northern Chile waters, T. Cortez, B.G. Castro, A. Guerra, Marine Biology (1995) 123: 497-503
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
♦ 5Gordillo, Sandra, and Fernando Archuby. "Predation by drilling gastropods and asteroids upon mussels in rocky shallow shores of southernmost South America: paleontological implications." Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57.3 (2012): 633+. Academic OneFile. Web. 14 July 2014.
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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