Gafrarium pectinatum

Gafrarium pectinatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Venerida
Family:	Veneridae
Genus:	Gafrarium
Species:	G. pectinatum
Binomial name
Gafrarium pectinatum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms [1]
See text

Gafrarium pectinatum, ^{[2] [3]} also known as Gafrarium tumidum, ^{[4] [5]} is a species of the genus Gafrarium in the family of Veneridae, order Veneroida in the bivalve class. They are edible clams. ^[5] WoRMS believe the latter is the synonyms of the other one, ^[6] but malocologist from Taiwan distinguish the two from the patterns of their shells ^{[3] [5] [2] [4]}

Right and left valve of the same specimen:

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  Right valve
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  Left valve

Distribution

Mainly distributed in Japan ^[4] , Taiwan (mainly at east shore ^{[2] [4]} of the Taiwan Strait, ^[7] but also scattered along the Pacific shore ^{[2] [4]} ), South China Sea (Hainan Island and Daya Bay, Singapore, Malaysia ^{[5] [8]} ), Thailand (both Gulf of Thailand and Andaman Sea). Also seen in Chagos Archipelago ^{[6] [9]} and Seychelles of Indian Ocean. After the opening of the Suez Canal, this species was brought from the Indo-Pacific Oceans to the Red Sea as well as the Mediterranean Sea. ^[10]

Consumption

This clam is usually fried or cooked into soup.

Synonyms

• Circe pectinata(Linnaeus, 1758)
• Circe pythinoidesTenison-Woods, 1878
• Crista pectinata(Linnaeus, 1758)
• Cytherea gibbiaLamarck, 1818
• Cytherea pectinataLamarck, 1818
• Cytherea ranellaLamarck, 1818
• Gafrarium angulatumRöding, 1798
• Gafrarium cardiodeumRöding, 1798
• Gafrarium costatumRöding, 1798
• Gafrarium depressumRöding, 1798
• Gafrarium pectinatum pectinatum(Linnaeus, 1758)
• Gafrarium tumidumRöding, 1798
• Venus pectinataLinnaeus, 1758 (Original combination)

References

1. Gofas, Serge (2004-12-21). "Gafrarium pectinatum (Linnaeus, 1758)". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 2017-03-30.
2. "Gafrarium pectinatum(Linnaeus, 1758) ". TaiBIF . Retrieved 2017-04-05.
3. "国际贝库：加夫蛤" (in English and Traditional Chinese). 台湾贝类资料库. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
4. "Gafrarium tumidumRoeding, 1798". TaiBNET . Taiwan: Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia_Sinica.
5. 国际贝库：凸加夫蛤 (in English and Traditional Chinese). 台湾贝类资料库. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2017-04-07.
6. Huber, Markus; Tran, Bastien; Vanden Berghe, Edward (2010-11-19). "Gafrarium tumidum Röding, 1798". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 2017-04-05.
7. 巫文隆; 李彥錚 (2005). 作伙去撿螺仔-台灣常見貝類彩色圖誌 [The Taiwan Common Mollusks In Color] (in Traditional Chinese). 農委會 林務局.
8. Morris, Solene; Purchon, R. D. (1981-12-01). "The marine shelled Mollusca of west Malaysia and Singapore Part 3, Bivalvia" . Journal of Molluscan Studies . 47 (3): 322–327. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.mollus.a065575 . Retrieved 2017-04-05.
9. Sheppard, Anne L. S. (August 1984). "The molluscan fauna of Chagos (Indian Ocean) and an analysis of its broad distribution patterns". Coral Reefs. 3 (1): 43–50. Bibcode:1984CorRe...3...43S. doi:10.1007/BF00306139. S2CID   2095190.
10. "OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database". The Academy of Natural Sciences. 2006-05-17. Archived from the original on 2016-08-03.