Specimen Information

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

Specimen ID52265
GroupMollusks-Bivalves
GenusCorbicula
Speciesfluminea
Common Namebasket clam
StateWV
CountyRitchie
LocalitySouth Fork of Hughes River, CR 28 at Prunty
Mapping AccuracyAccurate
HUC8 NameLittle Kanawha
HUC8 Number05030203
HUC10 NameSouth Fork Hughes River
HUC10 Number0503020310
HUC12 NameGrass Run-South Fork Hughes River
HUC12 Number050302031008
Map
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Collection Year1982
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:26938
Author:Schmidt, J.E., M.A. Zeto, and R.W. Taylor.
Date:1983
Title:A survey of the freshwater mussel fauna of the Little Kanawha River basin.
Publisher:U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Pages:131-139
Record TypeLiterature
Freshwater/MarineFreshwater


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