Specimen Information

Corbicula fluminea
Corbicula fluminea
(basket clam)
Mollusks-Bivalves
Exotic

Specimen ID52158
GroupMollusks-Bivalves
GenusCorbicula
Speciesfluminea
Common Namebasket clam
StateWA
CountyAsotin
LocalitySnake River, near Idaho state line
Mapping AccuracyApproximate
HUC8 NameLower Snake-Tucannon
HUC8 Number17060107
Map
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Collection Day15
Collection Month9
Collection Year1952
Year AccuracyActual
Potential Pathwayunknown
Statusestablished
Reference 1
Ref. Number:1355
Author:Counts III, C.L.
Date:1991
Title:Corbicula (Bivalvia: Corbiculidae) Part 1. Catalog of fossil and recent nominal species. Part 2. Compendium of zoogeographic records of North America and Hawaii, 1924-1984.
Journal:Tryonia
Volume:21
Pages:1-134
Reference 2
Ref. Number:30132
Author:National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Date:2017
Title:Corbicula fluminea data from the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution,
Record TypeSpecimen
Disposalpreserved dry
Museum Cat NumberUSNM 608480
Freshwater/MarineFreshwater
Number Collected4 valves


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