TN00061 TUBERCLED-BLOSSOM PEARLY MUSSEL EPIOBLASMA TORULOSA TORULOSA
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: SHELL MEDIUM SIZED WITH AN IRREGULARLY OVATE, ELLIPITICAL OR OBOVATE OUTLINE, VALVES INEQUILATERAL, SUBINFLATED, AND SOLID, ANTERIOR END ROUNDED, POSTERIOR MARGIN BROADLY ROUNDED IN FEMALES, UMBOS FULL, TURNED FORWARD SOMEWHAT, LOCATED IN ANTERIOR THIRD, BEAK STRUCTURE WEAK AND CORRUGATED, POSTERIOR RIDGE IN MALES LOW, NARROWLY ROUNDED, SEPARATED FROM MEDIAL RIDGE BY BROAD FURROW WHICH ENDS VENTRALLY IN AN EMARGINATION BETWEEN THE TWO RIDGES, BOTH RIDGES VARY FROM SMOOTH TO HAVING TORULOUS KNOBS, FEMALE SHELLS ARE USUALLY LARGER THAN THOSE OF MALES AND HAVE A LARGE FLATTENED, ROUNDED MARSUPIAL SWELLING THAT EXTENDS FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE VENTRAL MARGIN TO THE UPPER PART OF THE POSTERIOR END, MARSUPIAL SWELLING THIN USUALLY DARK GREEN, SOMETIMES MARKED BY SMALL RADIAL FURROWS WHICH BECOME OBSCURED BY THE PRONOUNCED IRREGULAR GROWTH LINES, EPIDERMIS SMOOTH, SHINY, TAWNY WITH NUMEROUS FINE GREEN RAYS, TWO TRIANGULAR PSEUDOCARDINALS, A SLIGHT INTERDENTUM, AND TWO LONG, STRAIGHT LATERALS IN LEFT VALVE, RIGHT VALVE HAS THREE TRIANGULAR PSEUDOCARDINALS, A LARGE TOOTH WITH A SMALLER ONE BEFORE AND BEHIND AND ONE LATERAL TOOTH, SOMETIMES WITH A VESTIGIAL ONE BELOW, BEAK CAVITY SHALLOW, PALLIAL LINE AND MSUCLE SCARS WELL IMPRESSED, NACRE VARIES FROM WHITE TO SALMON *TN5587* REPRODUCTION: APPEARS TO BE A WINTER BREEDER, BREEDING SEASON PROBABLY BEGINS IN EARLY AUGUST, GLOCHIDEA HAVE BEEN OBSERVED IN SEPTEMBER *TN5587*
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3895, 2100, 8858
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