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Didacna trigonoides
Didacna trigonoides is a brackish-water cockle, a bivalve mollusc of the family Cardiidae. It has a whitish or cream oval-triangular shell, up to 40–65 mm in length, with tan or reddish brown flattened ribs. The species is endemic to the Caspian Sea. It is a sedentary filter feeder that lives at depths from 3 to 60 m and feeds on suspended algae and mollusc larvae.
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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 566376.