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Samacar
Samacar is a genus of bivalves in the family Arcidae which has three species. It was first described by malacologist Tom Iredale in 1936 with the type taxon S. strabo found in Dundas, New South Wales, Australia. Shells are about 11 millimeters long. This genus spans throughout the Tasman Sea and Pacific Ocean reaching as far north as Japan
== References ==
3 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Samacar strabo
speciesSamacar strabo
Samacar aleutica
speciesSamacar aleutica
Samacar kurilensis
speciesSamacar kurilensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 995750.