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Tegillarca granosa

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Wikipedia Abstract

Tegillarca granosa (also known as Anadara granosa) is a species of ark clam known as the blood cockle or blood clam due to the red haemoglobin liquid inside the soft tissues. It is found throughout the Indo-Pacific region from the eastern coast of South Africa northwards and eastwards to Southeast Asia, Australia, Polynesia, and up to northern Japan. It lives mainly in the intertidal zone at one to two metres water depth, burrowed down into sand or mud. Adult size is about 5 to 6 cm long and 4 to 5 cm wide. The meat of this bivalve is served steamed, boiled, roasted, or traditionally raw.
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Predators

Haematopus longirostris (Pied Oystercatcher)[1]
Plotosus canius (Black-tip catfish)[2]
Takifugu oblongus (Oblong blow fish)[3]

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
2FEEDING BIOLOGY OF EEL CATFISH PLOTOSUS CANIUS HAMILTON IN A MALAYSIAN MANGROVE ESTUARY AND MUDFLAT, Leh, M. U. C.; A. Sasekumar; L.–L. Chew; THE RAFFLES BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGY 2012 60(2): 551–557
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.
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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