A bed of ribbed mussels clustered tightly together in the grasses of a salt marsh at low tide on a beach next to the Delaware Bay in southern New Jers

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A bed of ribbed mussels clustered tightly together in the grasses of a salt marsh at low tide on a beach next to the Delaware Bay in southern New Jersey.

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Photo credit: © Cheryl Moulton / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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Keywords: atlantic, bivalve, brackish, coastal, demissa, ecology, ecosystem, estuary, geukensia, intertidal, invertebrate, marsh, mollusca, mollusk, mussel, mussels, ribbed, saltmarsh, shell, shells, tidal, wetland