Is it venomous or poisonous?
We have no record of Southern Tuatua being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Paphies ventricosa
- Paphies subtriangulata
- Oxyperas elongatum
- Amarilladesma mactroides
- Mactromeris polynyma
- Mesodesma donacium
Classification
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Bivalvia
- Order
- Venerida
- Family
- Mesodesmatidae
- Genus
- Paphies
- Species
- Paphies donacina
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