Eco-certified Ashtamudi short-neck clam acquires its rightful identity

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Tagged Ashtamudi, Ashtamudi Lake, biodiversity, bivalves, Bivalvia, clams, export, fisheries, India, Kerala, mollusks, morphology, short-neck clam, taxonomic study, taxonomyLeave a comment

December 5, 2018

Even though the short-neck clam is the major resource and export coming from Ashtamudi Lake in Kerala, India – the first fishery to be awarded with a a Marine Stewardship Council certification for sustainability in the country, a recent study found out that the mollusc had been subject to mistaken identity. Further, this is not […]

New species of pea-size crab parasitizing a date mussel has a name of a Roman god

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Tagged biodiversity, bivalves, Bivalvia, crab, Crustacea, crustaceans, date mussel, Mollusca, molluscs, new species, parasite, pea crab, Solomon IslandsLeave a comment

October 24, 2016

Tiny crabs, the size of a pea, dwell inside the mantles of various bivalves, living off the food filtered by their hosts. A new species of these curious crustaceans has recently been reported from the Solomon Islands, where an individual was found to parasitise a large date mussel. Because of the new pea crab’s characteristic […]