Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Heterodonta > Infraclass Euheterodonta > Order Veneroida > Superfamily Cyrenoidea > Family Cyrenidae > Genus Corbicula

Corbicula fluminea (O. F. Müller, 1774)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Tellina Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

CorbiculaMegerle von Mühlfeld, 1811accepted genus name
Cyrena Lamarck, 1818 synonym

Species group names

Tellina fluminea O. F. Muller, 1774 objective synonym
Tellina fluviatilis Muller, 1774 subjective synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Dutch: Aziatische korfmossel
 English: Asian clam; Asiatic clam; prosperity clam sources: ITIS database;Dewarumez, J.-M.; Gévaert, F.; Massé, C.; Foveau, A.; Desroy, N.; Grulois, D. (2011). Les espèces marines animales et végétales introduites dans le bassin Artois-Picardie . UMR CNRS 8187 LOG/Agence de l’Eau Artois-Picardie: Douai. 138 pp.
 French: clam asiatique

Literature

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

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

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.

Genbank

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Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
Barcode of Life (15 barcodes)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (61 publications)
GenBank (126 nucleotides; 59 proteins)
GBIF
GBIF

Citation

Bouchet, P. (2014). Corbicula fluminea. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:181580

Dr Rafael Araujo. Corbicula fluminea (O. F. Muller, 1774). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=337875

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


not marine, fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

no data

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GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:181580
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Last modified

2012-07-23 by Dr Rafael Araujo & by Philippe Bouchet

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