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Trigonulina
Trigonulina is a genus of small carnivorous bivalves in the family Verticordiidae. It was first named by Alcide d'Orbigny with the type taxon T. ornata in 1853, though T. novemcostata was named first originally as Hippagus novemcostatus in 1850 which is now unaccepted. Trigonulina shells are known to be extremely small, ranging from about 1-3.6 millimeters long. They live at depths of 18-850 meters below the ocean's surface and burrow under sand to feed on microscopic...
2 branches of this genus, most-observed first
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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 246249.