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location: Gab Gab Beach, Guam
Size 48mm
Pretty tough from the inside of the valve. Can you photograph the outside?
although it looks like the inside, that is the outside
OOPS! Sorry about that! I should have opened the actual image rather than simply looking at the small icon. This could be a bit difficult to ID by comparing it to pictures in books because it is a right ("lower") valve, while almost all books show the left valve of Pectinidae, and the shapes are somewhat different. It looks to me like a young Mimachlamys sanguinea (Linne, 1758). I'm not certain, and perhaps one of our Pectinidae experts might have another idea.