Specimen Information

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

Specimen ID1634244
GroupMollusks-Bivalves
GenusCorbicula
Speciesfluminea
Common Namebasket clam
StateOR
CountyDouglas
LocalitySouth Umpqua River near Myrtle Creek, OR
Mapping AccuracyAccurate
HUC8 NameSouth Umpqua
HUC8 Number17100302
HUC10 NameClark Branch-South Umpqua River
HUC10 Number1710030211
HUC12 NameWillis Creek-South Umpqua River
HUC12 Number171003021102
Map
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Collection Day13
Collection Month9
Collection Year2018
Year AccuracyActual
Potential Pathwaydispersed current | hitch hiker gut passage
Statusestablished
CommentsSite located approximately 300 meters downstream from the HWY 99 bridge over the South Umpqua River near Myrtle Creek, OR. I was systematically excavating 0.25 m squared quadrats to look for buried juvenile mussels. There were so many C. fluminea in my excavation units that I counted live animals in 6 excavation units that were equally spaced through the bed. I counted 1,098 live C. fluminea in the 6 excavation units I chose to count them in (I excavated substrate to 13 cm depth). This area represents just 1.25 percent of the total bed area (bed area sampled was 150 m squared), so there are 1000s more C. fluminea at this location that are not represented in my Number Observed reported above.
Record TypeNAS sighting report
VerifierWesley Daniel (USGS)
Freshwater/MarineFreshwater
Number Collected1098
Photo
Corbicula fluminea


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Citation information: U.S. Geological Survey. [2024]. Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database. Gainesville, Florida. Accessed [12/3/2024].

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