Crassula aequilatera

Crassulla aequilatera

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Subkingdom:	Metazoa
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Subclass:	Heterodonta
Order:	Mactroidea
Family:	Mactridae
Genus:	Crassula
Species:	C. aequilateralis
Binomial name
*Crassula aequilatera* (Reeve, 1854)
Synonyms
Mactra aequilateralis Deshayes, 1854

Crassula aequilatera, known as the triangle shell, is a surf clam, a moderately large marine bivalve mollusc in the family Mactridae.

Inside view of Crassula aequilatera

References

Powell A. W. B., William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1

Edible mollusks

Clams	Atlantic jackknife Atlantic surf Geoduck Grooved carpet shell Hard clam Horse Mactra stultorum Blunt gaper Ocean quahog Pacific razor Venus California butterclam Senilia senilis Smooth clam Soft-shell Triangle shell Tuatua Japanese littleneck Razor clam Pod razor Ensis (razor genus) Paphies

Cockles	Common Blood Goolwa New Zealand Sydney

Mussels	Blue Mediterranean New Zealand green-lipped California Brown Asian/Philippine green Date Mytilidae (mussel family)

Oysters	Auckland Eastern Olympia Southern mud Colchester native Pacific Portuguese Windowpane Rock Sydney rock Ostra chilena/Bluff Gillardeau oysters Crassostrea ("true oyster" genus)

Scallops	Atlantic bay Great/king New Zealand Pecten jacobaeus Peruvian calico Yesso Placopecten magellanicus

Sea	Mud-flat Korean mud Chorus giganteus

Land	Cornu aspersum Helix lucorum Helix pomatia

Freshwater	Nerites

Cuttlefish	Spineless Bottletail

Octopus	Common Atlantic white-spotted Big blue Pacific giant Southern red Amphioctopus fangsiao

Squid	New Zealand arrow Japanese flying Humboldt Neon flying

Related topics: Oyster farming; Land snail farming; Gastropod anatomy; Bivalve anatomy

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