When it comes to mussels, I believe that our friends should not be unfamiliar, mussels are a kind of aquatic organisms in our daily life, often appear in various lakes or rivers. Generally speaking, mussels should look similar, like oversized shells. However, a man in Jiangxi Province accidentally found an oversized mussel while playing by the lake.
From the appearance, the man found that the mussels are very large, and also looks very peculiar, not like the common life of the ordinary mussels with oval-shaped body, but presents a long strip of the body, looks particularly strange. What's more, this kind of strange mussels, also like to live inside the cracks of the stone, it is really mind-boggling, I do not know what kind of creature this is. The man probably also felt very curious, so he posted a photo of this oversized mussel on social media platforms, hoping that some netizens could tell him what kind of creature it was.
Unexpectedly, some netizens said that this creature is not an ordinary mussel, but is called keeled razor clam, which is a second-class protected animal in China. The location where the man found it is the edge of Poyang Lake, and the dragon bone razor clam happens to live in Poyang Lake, so it is obvious that the oversized mussel that the man found this time should be the dragon bone razor clam undoubtedly. The second-class protected animal of course can not be captured, so the man listened to the netizen's advice, the oversized mussels to release.
The number of keeled razor clam is still relatively small, otherwise it would not be listed as the second class of protected animals in China. However, as the ecological environment has become better in recent years, the number of these rare wild animals has also risen, which is why they were found by this man by the river this time. This also means that the local ecological environment is better, which is why this rare wild animal was allowed to appear. Overall, when you find all kinds of unknown creatures in the wild, try or not to capture them at will, maybe these strange creatures, are protected animals.