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Morning star shell
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Morning star shell

Tawera spissa

Tawera spissa, the morning star shell, is a species of marine bivalve from the Veneridae family. T. spissa is endemic to New Zealand.

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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 397888.