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Mytella maracaibensis Beauperthuy 1967

Body symmetry

Namigai et al 2014
bilaterally symmetric
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324

Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves

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body length

McClain Bivalve Sizes

734 mm

(max)

body volume

Literature body sizes, bivalves

82100 cm^3

(average)

cellularity

Cellularity and growth form
multicellular
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993

Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]

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forms

ecology literature
marine reef
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000029

Definition: A biome expressed by strips or ridges of rocks, sand, or coral that rises to or near the surface of a body of marine water.

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(adult)
Brusca and Brusca, 2003
marine reef
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000029

Definition: A biome expressed by strips or ridges of rocks, sand, or coral that rises to or near the surface of a body of marine water.

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(adult)

mineralized skeleton contains

Mineralogy
calcium carbonate
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_3311

Definition: A carbonate salt that has formula CO3Ca

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reproduction

Fairbairn 2013
sexual reproduction
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0019953

Definition: Capable of creating a new organism by combining the genetic material of two gametes, which may come from two parent organisms or from a single organism, in the case of self-fertilizing hermaphrodites.

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shell height, bivalve

McClain Bivalve Sizes

734 mm

(max)

shell length, bivalve

McClain Bivalve Sizes

1530 mm

(max)

wet body mass

Literature body sizes, bivalves

142000 g

(average)