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Adacna fragilis
Adacna fragilis is a brackish-water cockle, a bivalve mollusc of the family Cardiidae. It has an oval, thin, white, pale yellow or brownish shell, up to 20–33 mm (0.79–1.30 in) in length, with irregularly placed ribs. The species is endemic to the Black Sea Basin, where it lives in shallow inshore habitats in estuaries and limans and burrows deep into soft sediments. It is native to some of the lakes of the Danube Delta, the Kuchurgan, Dniester and...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1576097.