The shell of Arca zebra is boldly striped in brown and white which gives it a resemblance to the wing of a wild turkey. The whole shell (when both valves are together) has also been likened …

Color creamy-white, streak with reddish- to dark-brown wavy bands. Attached by byssus onto hard substrates.

This two-shelled (bivalve) clam obtained its name from its similarity to the barred colour pattern of a turkey’s wing (Fig. 1). The shell is an almost rectangular equivalve (both shells equal in size …

What is a Turkey Wing Shell? The Turkey Wing shell, scientifically known as Arca zebra, is a common bivalve mollusk found in the warmer waters of the Western Atlantic. It belongs to the …

Similar in shape to the mossy ark, A. imbricata. In the mossy ark, the dorsal (lower) posterior edge extends past the ventral (upper) posterior edge (opposite in the turkey wing).

Low, narrow ridges radiate across the shell and, most strikingly, the whole shell is zebra-striped with white and rusty-red bands. Because the shells vaguely look like outstretched bird wings …

This handsome brown and white clam shell, named, obviously, for its resemblance to the wing of the wild turkey, is a bivalve found on beaches from North Carolina to the West Indies, and also …