Bulletin of Shikoku Institute of Natural History
Online ISSN : 2434-4877
Print ISSN : 1349-4945
A record of a rare clam, Soletellina adamsii, from tadal flat in Uranouchi Inlet, Tosa Bay, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
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2016 Volume 9 Pages 28-30

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In 2015, a single living specimen and 17 freshly dead-shells of the psammobiid clam, Soletelina adamsii, were collected from Uranouchi Inlet, Tosa Bay, Kochi Prefecture, Japan. This clam has been designated as one of the vulnerable species both by the Ministry of the Environment and by the Japanese Association of Benthology. The locality was a small intertidal sand flat near the mouth of the Izumi River, on the northern coast of the Inlet. Allometric growh of the shell was examined for the first time for this species.
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