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Unidentified Clam From Liverpool N.S, Canada
08-05-2010, 03:43 PM,
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Unidentified Clam From Liverpool N.S, Canada
This appears to be a wave-polished (in life it isn't this glossy) Mesodesma arctata, sometimes called "Arctic wedge clam".  In life it also has a thin brownish periostracum covering the shell. I have found these in quantity on the beach at a couple of locations in New Hampshire and Maine.  <span class="petit">--Last edited by Paul Monfils on 2010-08-05 19:50:27 --</span>
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