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Scientific Name: Vasticardium elongatum (Bruguière, 1789)
Synonym: Trachycardium elongatum (Currently unaccepted)
English Name: Not known
Local/Bangla Name: Not known
Photo: GBIF
Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Cardiida
Family: Cardiidae
Description:
Shell large, up to 70 mm height, rectangular-ovate, tumid and a little inequilateral. Sculpture consists of about 36, somewhat rounded, smooth radial ribs separated by narrow interstices. Externally shell white, ornamented with yellow blotches and often with pink posterior and internally white and tinged with yellow below the umbo.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
Kutubdia, Maheskhali and Sonadia Island
Environment:
Marine
Main References:
Hossain MS, Sharifuzzaman SM, Chowdhury SR, Chowdhury MSN, Sarkar S, Islam MR, Talukder A (2014) Sea Shells of Bangladesh: Marine Gastropod and Bivalve Molluscs Biodiversity.1-44pp
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