Clams

city of San Luis Obispo County, California, United States

Clam is a common name for several species of bivalve mollusc. The word is often applied only to those that are deemed edible and live as infauna, spending most of their lives halfway buried in the sand of the sea floor or riverbeds. Clams have two shells of equal size connected by two adductor muscles and have a powerful burrowing foot. They live in both freshwater and marine environments; in salt water they prefer to burrow down into the mud and the turbidity of the water required varies with species and location; the greatest diversity of these is in North America.

The Pacific geoduck ( ; Panopea generosa) is a species of very large saltwater clam in the family Hiatellidae. The common name is derived from the Lushootseed name, .

family of molluscs

species of mollusc

species of mollusc

clam; oldest animal ever discovered

species of mollusc

species of mollusc

Rinay is a malacological museum of natural history in Baku, Azerbaijan. It is also the first private museum in the country.

species of mollusc

harvesting clams from below the surface of the tidal sand flats or mud flats, done both recreationally and commercially