Lucinid on the lookout (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

Lucinid on the lookout

Caption

Lucinids are the most species rich and widely distributed family of marine bivalves hosting bacterial endosymbionts. In this picture, a large specimen of Ctena imbricatula is checking out its environment with its foot that it can enlarge ten times its body size.

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Laetitia Wilkins

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