| Cyrtopleura costata | |
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| Cyrtopleura costata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Myida |
| Superfamily: | Pholadoidea |
| Family: | Pholadidae |
| Genus: | Cyrtopleura |
| Species: | C. costata
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| Cyrtopleura costata | |
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Cyrtopleura costata, or the angel wing clam, is a bivalve mollusc in the family Pholadidae. It is found in shallow parts of the northwest Atlantic and also in the North Sea of Scotland coastline and west coast of the Adriatic Sea by a remote area in the Marche region in central Italy, living in the seabed, where it digs its burrows on a very slow revolving movement for years through soft sand and mud always to a max depth of 8ft but always below 3 feet (0.91 m) at the lowest tide.[2]
- ^ a b Cyrtopleura costata (Linnaeus, 1758) World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2011-11-30.
- ^ Cyrtopleura costata Smithsonian Marine Station. Retrieved 2011-11-30.