Meretrix lamarckii

Species of bivalve in the genus Meretrix

Korean hard clam

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Bivalvia
Order:  | Venerida
Family:  | Veneridae
Genus:  | Meretrix
Species:  |

M. lamarckii

Binomial name
Meretrix lamarckii

Deshayes 1853

Synonyms

Synonymy

* Cytherea fusca Koch in Philippi 1845
* Cytheraea morphina L.
* Meretrix compressa Römer, 1866
* Meretrix meretrix var. reevei Fischer-Piette & P. H. Fischer, 1941

Meretrix lamarckii, also called Korean clam or Korean hard clam, is a species of saltwater bivalve in the family Veneridae.[1] It is the second species of venerid clam where doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) has been identified.[2]

## Ecology

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It is a medium-sized clam which lives in sandy sediments from the subtidal zone to a depth of 20 meters.[3] In the waters off Hyūga, Miyazaki, it spawns between late July and early September.[4]

### Relationship to humans

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M. lamarckii is edible and economically important in China; commercial fishing has greatly disrupted the habitat where it lives.[3][5] It is a filter feeder which primarily feeds on phytoplankton.[6] Its shell is used to make the white stones used in Go.[4]

## Bibliography

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* Feng, Jiantong; Fu, Zeqin; Guo, Yahong; Li, Jiji; Guo, Baoying; Lü, Zhenming; Ye, Yingying (2020). "Strong genetic differentiation of the clam Meretrix lamarckii in the China Sea revealed by mitochondrial DNA marker". Molecular Biology Reports. 47 (1): 693–702\. doi:10.1007/s11033-019-05177-9. ISSN 0301-4851. PMID 31701474. S2CID 207941192.693-702&rft.date=2020&rft.issn=0301-4851&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:207941192#id-name=S2CID&rft_id=info:pmid/31701474&rft_id=info:doi/10.1007/s11033-019-05177-9&rft.aulast=Feng&rft.aufirst=Jiantong&rft.au=Fu,+Zeqin&rft.au=Guo,+Yahong&rft.au=Li,+Jiji&rft.au=Guo,+Baoying&rft.au=Lü,+Zhenming&rft.au=Ye,+Yingying&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Meretrix+lamarckii" class="Z3988">
* Shigeno, Kunihiko (1955). "Notes on the Biology of the Clam Meretrix lamarckii". Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Scientific Fisheries. 21 (4): 218–225\. doi:10.2331/suisan.21.218.218-225&rft.date=1955&rft_id=info:doi/10.2331/suisan.21.218&rft.aulast=Shigeno&rft.aufirst=Kunihiko&rft_id=https://doi.org/10.2331%2Fsuisan.21.218&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Meretrix+lamarckii" class="Z3988">

### References

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1. ^ Meretrix lamarckii at GBIF
2. ^ Bettinazzi, Stefano; Plazzi, Federico; Passamonti, Marco (2016-04-15). "The Complete Female- and Male-Transmitted Mitochondrial Genome of Meretrix lamarckii". PLOS ONE. 11 (4): e0153631. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0153631. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4833323. PMID 27083010.
3. ^ a b Feng et al. 2020, p. 693.
4. ^ a b Shigeno 1955, p. 218.
5. ^ Shao YQ, Zhang JM, Fang J et al (2017). "Reproductive cycle and early development of Meretrix lamarkii (Veneroida: Veneridae) under artificial conditions" (in Chinese with English abstract). J Fish Sci China 24:82–90
6. ^ Itoi, Shiro; Uchida, Junya; Takanashi, Shihori; Narita, Tomoyo; Abe, Koko; Naya, Satomi; Sugita, Haruo (2014). "The clam Meretrix lamarckii (Bivalvia: Veneridae) is a rich repository of marine lactic acid bacterial strains". Annals of Microbiology. 64 (3): 1267–1274\. doi:10.1007/s13213-013-0771-1. ISSN 1590-4261.1267-1274&rft.date=2014&rft_id=info:doi/10.1007/s13213-013-0771-1&rft.issn=1590-4261&rft.aulast=Itoi&rft.aufirst=Shiro&rft.au=Uchida,+Junya&rft.au=Takanashi,+Shihori&rft.au=Narita,+Tomoyo&rft.au=Abe,+Koko&rft.au=Naya,+Satomi&rft.au=Sugita,+Haruo&rft_id=https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs13213-013-0771-1&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Meretrix+lamarckii" class="Z3988">

Taxon identifiers

Meretrix lamarckii|

* Wikidata: Q11080685
* BOLD: 32720
* CoL: 3ZTQ6
* GBIF: 5855748
* iNaturalist: 522922
* IRMNG: 11823817
* NCBI: 157363
* OBIS: 367844
* Open Tree of Life: 1027030
* SeaLifeBase: 80618
* WoRMS: 367844

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