Meretrix lamarckii

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Korean hard clam
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Venerida
Family: Veneridae
Genus: Meretrix
Species:
M. lamarckii
Binomial name
Meretrix lamarckii
Deshayes 1853
Synonyms
Synonymy
  • Cytherea fusca Koch in Philippi 1845
  • Cytheraea morphinaL.
  • Meretrix compressa Römer, 1866
  • Meretrix meretrix var. reevei Fischer-Piette & P. H. Fischer, 1941

Meretrix lamarckii, also called Korean clam or Korean hard clam, is a species of saltwater bivalve in the family Veneridae. [1] It is the second species of venerid clam where doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) has been identified. [2]

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Ecology

It is a medium-sized clam which lives in sandy sediments from the subtidal zone to a depth of 20 meters. [3] In the waters off Hyūga, Miyazaki, it spawns between late July and early September. [4]

Relationship to humans

M. lamarckii is edible and economically important in China; commercial fishing has greatly disrupted the habitat where it lives. [3] [5] It is a filter feeder which primarily feeds on phytoplankton. [6] Its shell is used to make the white stones used in Go. [4]

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References

  1. Meretrix lamarckii at GBIF
  2. Bettinazzi, Stefano; Plazzi, Federico; Passamonti, Marco (2016-04-15). "The Complete Female- and Male-Transmitted Mitochondrial Genome of Meretrix lamarckii". PLOS ONE. 11 (4): e0153631. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0153631 . ISSN   1932-6203. PMC   4833323 . PMID   27083010.
  3. 1 2 Feng et al. 2020, p. 693.
  4. 1 2 Shigeno 1955, p. 218.
  5. Shao YQ, Zhang JM, Fang J et al (2017). "Reproductive cycle and early development of Meretrix lamarkii (Veneroida: Veneridae) under artificial conditions" (in Chinese with English abstract). J Fish Sci China 24:82–90
  6. Itoi, Shiro; Uchida, Junya; Takanashi, Shihori; Narita, Tomoyo; Abe, Koko; Naya, Satomi; Sugita, Haruo (2014). "The clam Meretrix lamarckii (Bivalvia: Veneridae) is a rich repository of marine lactic acid bacterial strains". Annals of Microbiology. 64 (3): 1267–1274. doi:10.1007/s13213-013-0771-1. ISSN   1590-4261.