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Fluted clam
Fluted clam
(Tridacna squamosa)
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Fluted clam inhalent siphon
© Pete Atkinson / www.nhpa.co.uk
Fluted clam inhalent siphon
© Pete Atkinson / www.nhpa.co.uk
Fluted clam siphon with symbiotic zooxanthellae
© David Hall / naturepl.com
Fluted clam exhalent siphon in mantle
© Trevor McDonald / www.nhpa.co.uk
Close up of a fluted clam's mantle
© Jez Tryner / imagequestmarine.com
Fluted clam mantle
© Andre Seale / imagequestmarine.com
Fluted clam, showing primitive eyes
© Rudie Kuiter / www.osfimages.com
Fluted clam mantle
© Andre Seale / imagequestmarine.com
Fluted clam on reef
© Jez Tryner / imagequestmarine.com
Fluted clam
© Jez Tryner / imagequestmarine.com
Fluted clam, showing shell shape
© Karen Gowlett-Holmes / www.osfimages.com
Fluted clam with blue-green mantle
© Bruce Watkins / Animals Animals
Fluted clam on reef, shell pattern
© Karen Gowlett-Holmes / www.osfimages.com
Fluted clam on coral reef
© Paul Kay / www.osfimages.com
Fluted clam with staghorn coral and damsel fishes
© Ben & Lynn Cropp / Auscape International
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