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Pacific Arctic Benthic Species
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Musculus discors (Linnaeus, 1767)

Size
Up to 3 mm.

Color
Shell light yellow-brown, periostracum light brown, with a pale green tinge, often darker along ventral margin. Inner surface of shell pearly, sometimes with a bluish tinge.

Habitat
On rocky shores from mid-tidal zone into shallow sublittoral.

Feeding
Suspension feeder.

Life cycle
Separate sexes; pelagic larvae.

Distribution
Circumboreal.

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