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Fat Horse Mussel

Modiolus capax

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) g_heaton, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in California.

United States	378
California	364
Mexico	40
Baja California Sur	16
Arizona	12
Oaxaca	7
Sonora	7
Costa Rica	7
Ecuador	6
Baja California	5

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

Shell-bearingProtected by a hard shellFrom its classification

Group and habits

Filter feederFeeds by filtering suspended food particles from water.From its classification

Classification

Kingdom	Animals · Animalia
Phylum	Molluscs · Mollusca
Class	Bivalves · Bivalvia
Order	Mytilida
Family	Horsemussels and Allies · Modiolidae
Genus	Modiolus

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

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