Specimen Information

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

Specimen ID50697
GroupMollusks-Bivalves
GenusCorbicula
Speciesfluminea
Common Namebasket clam
StateCA
CountyRiverside
LocalityColorado Aqueduct, Hayfield Pumping Plant W of Desert Center
Mapping AccuracyAccurate
HUC8 NameSouthern Mojave
HUC8 Number18100100
HUC10 NameHayfield Lake-Lake Tamarisk
HUC10 Number1810010048
HUC12 NameRed Butte Wash
HUC12 Number181001004801
Map
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Collection Year1957
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:26916
Author:Fox, R.O.
Date:1971
Title:The Echo: The Corbicula story: Chapter two.
Publisher:Abstracts and Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting Western Society of Malacologists. June 24-27, 1970.
Pages:10 pp.
Record TypeLiterature
Freshwater/MarineFreshwater


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