Pinna attenuata
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Pteriida |
| Family: | Pinnidae |
| Genus: | Pinna |
| Species: | P. attenuata
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| Binomial name | |
| Pinna attenuata Reeve, 1858
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Pinna attenuata is a species of bivalves belonging to the family Pinnidae.[1] It has an elongate, triangular shell shape, is radially wrinkled anteriorly, radially ribbed posteriorly, and is usually unscaled. It is yellow-olive in colour when alive.[2]
The species has been found in waters off the coast of Japan, Tanzania, and in Malesia.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Pinna attenuata Reeve, 1858". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
- ^ Reeve, Lovell Augustus (1859). Conchologia Iconica, or, Illustrations of the Shells of Molluscous Animals v. 11. London: Reeve, Brothers. pp. 103–104.
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