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Corbicula
Sign in to saveCorbicula is a genus of freshwater and brackish water clams, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Cyrenidae, the basket clams. The genus name is the Neo-Latin diminutive of Latin corbis, a basket, referring to the shape and ribs of the shell.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassBivalvia
- OrderVenerida
- FamilyCyrenidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2,490
- With media
- 1,068
- Family
- Cyrenidae
- Collections
- LACM, UWBM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, UCMP, YPM, UF
- Recorded in
- United States, Japan
Research
703 papers- Chemical Treatments on Invasive Bivalve, Corbicula fluminea.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024
- A review of freshwater benthic clams (Corbicula fluminea): Accumulation capacity, underlying physiological mechanisms and environmental applications.The Science of the total environment · 2023
- Formation mechanism of iron-catechol complexes in the colored periostracum of Corbicula spp.Metallomics : integrated biometal science · 2024
- Biological toxicity response of Asian Clam (Corbicula fluminea) to pollutants in surface water and sediment.The Science of the total environment · 2018
- Acorbine, a Corbicula japonica-derived tripeptide containing non-proteinogenic amino acids, suppresses ethanol-induced liver injury.Biochemical and biophysical research communications · 2020
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Androgenesis
- Taxonomy
- Invasiveness
- Species
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Corbicula is a genus of freshwater and brackish water clams, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Cyrenidae, the basket clams. The genus name is the Neo-Latin diminutive of Latin corbis, a basket, referring to the shape and ribs of the shell.
The genus Corbicula includes numerous extant and fossil species; the status of several of them is unclear (species inquirenda). The best known is Corbicula fluminea, originally native to freshwater systems in East Asia, now an invasive species in many areas of the world.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Corbicula” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.