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Southwest Florida Shells

José H. Leal

Mactrotoma fragilis

(Gmelin, 1791)

Family Mactridae

Fragile Surf Clam

Shell size to 49 mm; shell thin but strong, oval, compressed. Posterior region with two ridges, beyond which shell gapes. Color white, with strong grayish-brown periostracum.

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