Specimen Information

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

Specimen ID51564
GroupMollusks-Bivalves
GenusCorbicula
Speciesfluminea
Common Namebasket clam
StateNC
CountyWake
LocalityBuckhorn Creek, near Harris Nuclear Power Plant, 32 km SW of Raleigh
Mapping AccuracyAccurate
HUC8 NameUpper Cape Fear
HUC8 Number03030004
HUC10 NameBuckhorn Creek-Cape Fear River
HUC10 Number0303000401
HUC12 NameBuckhorn Creek
HUC12 Number030300040103
Map
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Collection Year1982
Year AccuracyPublication Year
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:26929
Author:Counts III, C.L.
Date:1985
Title:Distribution of Corbicula fluminea at nuclear facilities.
Publisher:U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Pages:NUREG/CR-4233, 79 pp.
Record TypeLiterature
Freshwater/MarineFreshwater


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