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Scientific Name: Meropesta capillacea (Reeve, 1854)
English Name: Maidenhair mactra
Local/Bangla Name: Kan chilon (কান ছিলন)
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Venerida
Family: Mactridae
Description:
Shell medium, thin, inflated, equivalve, transversely elongate ovate, with rounded ends. Exterior smoothish with fine concentric threads. Dorsal margin more or less symmetrically slanting towards the rounded anterior and posterior margins. Periostracum thin. Umbones prosogyrate. External ligament short; internal ligament well-developed, set in a large deep trigonal pit. Pallial line with well-developed pallial sinus, deep and longer than wide. Muscle scars unequal, anterior elongate, posterior rounded. Colour:exterior whitish with thin cream coloured periostracum; interior porcelaneous white.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Sonadia Island
Environment:
Marine, Benthic, Tropical
Main References:
Siddiqui KU, Islam MA, Kabir SMH, Ahmad M, Ahmed ATA, Rahman AKA, Haque EU, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hassan MA, Khondker M, Rahman MM (2007) Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol. 17. Molluscs. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka 415 pp.
Other References:
DNA Barcodes from Bangladesh
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Other DNA Barcodes & Nucleutide Sequences
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