🦋 Family

Cyrenidae

5 species · Animals

Animalia › Mollusca › Bivalvia › Venerida › Cyrenidae

Polymesoda caroliniana, the Carolina marshclam, is an edible shallow-water bivalve found along the Atlantic coast of North America.

Polymesoda floridana, the maritime marsh clam, is a Cyrenidae bivalve found along the Gulf of Mexico coast from Florida to Texas.

Corbicula fluminea, the Asian clam, is an east Asian native freshwater clam that is a successful global invasive species.

Corbicula japonica Prime, 1864 is an edible brackish-water bivalve basket clam in the family Cyrenidae, with several common names including shijimi.

Corbicula fluminalis is an Asian freshwater bivalve often confused with the similar Asian clam Corbicula fluminea.

Related Families

Veneridae 44 species Mactridae 14 species Chamidae 5 species Mesodesmatidae 4 species Anatinellidae 1 species Arcticidae 1 species

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