Larkinia

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Larkinia
Arcidae - Larkinia grandis.jpg
A view of valves of Larkinia grandis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Arcida
Family: Arcidae
Genus:Larkinia
Reinhart, 1935

Larkinia is a genus of saltwater clams in the family Arcidae, the ark clams.

Clam common name

Clam is a common name for several kinds of bivalve molluscs. The word is often applied only to those that are edible and live as infauna, spending most of their lives halfway buried in the sand of the seafloor. Clams have two shells of equal size connected by two adductor muscles and have a powerful burrowing foot. Clams in the culinary sense do not live attached to a substrate and do not live near the bottom. In culinary usage, clams are commonly eaten marine bivalves, as in clam digging and the resulting soup, clam chowder. Many edible clams such as palourde clams are oval or triangular; however, razor clams have an elongated parallel-sided shell, suggesting an old-fashioned straight razor.

Species

Species within the genus Larkinia include: [1]

<i>Larkinia grandis</i>

Larkinia grandis is a genus of saltwater clams in the family Arcidae, the ark clams.

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References

  1. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Larkinia Reinhart, 1935". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2016-11-05.