Specimen Information

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

Specimen ID50829
GroupMollusks-Bivalves
GenusCorbicula
Speciesfluminea
Common Namebasket clam
StateCA
CountyRiverside
Localitynear Mecca, discharging into the Salton Sea (unnamed irrigation canal)
Mapping AccuracyApproximate
HUC8 NameWhitewater River
HUC8 Number18100201
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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