''Spisula subtruncata'', the cut through shell, is a medium-sized marine clam, or bivalve mollusc, found in the Eastern Atlantic from

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and into the

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. Common and sometimes very numerous. Up to long, with a distinct triangular shape. This species of clam is found in sandy and silty bottom in the sublittoral zone, where it lives as a sediment-

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filter feeder.

References

Mactridae Bivalves described in 1778 {{Bivalve-stub