A brown, cigar-shaped bivalve mollusc which bores into limestone and coral.
石蛏
Genus Lithophaga, family Mytilidae
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Rocks and coral blocks cast up on shore often show the tell-tale circular or oval openings of the burrows of boring bivalves such as piddocks and date mussels.
Urchin pits and piddock and date mussel holes are valuable habitat for other animals.
Some mussels, date mussels, secrete acid and dissolve limestone.
The date mussel's shell is covered with a thick brown layer of horny material, which protects it against the acid.
The Asian mussel - also known as the Asian date mussel - is a bag mussel native to the north-western Pacific coast.