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Arctic and Northern Atlantic: from Canadian Arctic, USA, to Norway and Severnaya Zemlya, Russia. Polar to temperate.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm2.4  range ? - ? cm Max length : 11.0 cm SHL male/unsexed; (Ref. 104337)
Inhabits deep waters. Completely buries itself in fine sand (Refs. 104163, 104337). Suspension feeder (Ref. 104163). In general, suspension feeding bivalves mainly depend on phytoplankton and detritus material for nutrition (Ref. 107088).
Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Members of the class Bivalvia are mostly gonochoric, some are protandric hermaphrodites. Life cycle: Embryos develop into free-swimming trocophore larvae, succeeded by the bivalve veliger, resembling a miniature clam.