Summary ³

Mulinia lateralis, the dwarf surf clam or coot clam, is a species of small saltwater clam, a bivalve mollusc in the family Mactridae. It occurs in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

Reproduction ⁴

The dwarf surf clam has separate sexes (Lu et al. 1996). Mature adults spawn from May to November. A female will usually release between 0.5 to 2 million eggs during a spawning event (Lu et al. 1996). In the laboratory, individuals produced 3 x 105 eggs or 2.5 x 109 sperm cells (Guo and Allen 1994).

Link to Access Genomic Data ⁵

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=31206&lvl=0

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Femorale, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://www.femorale.com/shellphotos/detail.asp?species=Mulinia%20lateralis%20(Say,%201822)
2. (c) Femorale, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://www.femorale.com/shellphotos/detail.asp?species=Mulinia%20cf.%20lateralis%20(Say,%201822)
3. Adapted by matbio from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulinia_lateralis
4. Adapted by matbio from a work by (c) Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/11526466
5. (c) Emily Rose Sharkey, all rights reserved

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