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Corbicula fluminea (O. F. Müller, 1774) 
AphiaID: 181580

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Cyrenoidea (Superfamily) > Cyrenidae (Family) > Corbicula (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Corbicula Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811
Synonymised
taxa
  Tellina fluminea O. F. Müller, 1774 (original combination)
Sources  additional source: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg [details]

redescription: Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch Aziatische korfmossel  [details]
English Asian clam  [details]
English Asiatic clam  [details]
English prosperity clam  [details]
French clam asiatique  [details]
Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Atlantic Europe [details]
Elbe [details]
Germany [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
North Sea [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
To Barcode of Life (15 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (61 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (126 nucleotides; 59 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Image 
Corbicula fluminea
Corbicula fluminea
added on 2012-07-18 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:181580
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-09-26 12:09:47Z  created  Claus, Simon
2007-03-25 23:01:11Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2012-07-23 02:45:35Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Corbicula fluminea (O. F. Müller, 1774). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181580 on 2013-05-25
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