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Coloured egg cockle
Monodacna colorata
The colored lagoon cockle (Monodacna colorata), also known as the colored egg cockle or Azov-Black Sea cockle, is a fresh- and brackish-water bivalve mollusc of the family Cardiidae characterized by a broadly oval shell, with oblique triangular ribs and a length of up to 40 mm. Its coloration varies from whitish or yellowish to pinkish or grayish-lilac and is deeper on the interior. It is native to freshened zones and limans of the Black Sea and the...
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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 544518.