The Nacra or Pinna nobilis, which is better known as the noble pen shell or fan mussel has been almost wiped out of the Western Mediterranean by a parasitic protozoan called Haplosporidium pinnae sp. nov., which killed off 99% of the population in Spain 2016 and is still spreading.
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Hope for endangered Nacra mussel
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