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Adacna laeviuscula
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Adacna laeviuscula

Adacna laeviuscula is a brackish-water cockle, a bivalve mollusc of the family Cardiidae. It has an irregularly oval, thin and semitranslucent white shell, up to 40–50 mm (1.6–2.0 in) in length, with a narrower anterior end, and flattened ribs. The species is endemic to the Caspian Sea, where it lives at depths from 0 to 30–60 m (0 to 98–197 ft) and burrows into soft sediments.

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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 856457.