Specimen Information

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

Specimen ID50698
GroupMollusks-Bivalves
GenusCorbicula
Speciesfluminea
Common Namebasket clam
StateCA
CountySan Bernardino
LocalityColorado Aqueduct, near Gene Pumping Plant
Mapping AccuracyAccurate
HUC8 NameImperial Reservoir
HUC8 Number15030104
HUC10 NameOsborne Wash-Colorado River
HUC10 Number1503010401
HUC12 NameGiers Wash-Colorado River
HUC12 Number150301040104
Map
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Collection Year1968
Year AccuracyActual
Potential Pathwaystocked for food
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:26914
Author:Fox, R.O.
Date:1970
Title:The Echo: The Corbicula story: a progress report.
Publisher:Abstracts and Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting of the Western Society of Malacologists., June 18-21, 1969, Pacific Grove, California
Record TypeLiterature
Freshwater/MarineFreshwater


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