Soft-shelled Clam

< Back

Linnaeus, 1758

Mya arenaria

Soft-shelled Clam

Phylum:

Mollusca

Taxonomy

Class:

Bivalvia

Order:

Myida

Family:

Myidae

ANSP 481380

Shell Information

Length (mm): 94

Chirality:

N/A

Description:

Ecological Information

Distribution:

Newfoundland to North Carolina

Depth (m):

0 to 6 meters

Diet:

Suspension feeder and chemosymbiosis

Habitat:

Works Cited

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mya arenaria Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140430 on 2021-06-10
Rosenberg, G. 2009. Malacolog 4.1.1: A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca. [WWW database (version 4.1.1)] URL http://www.malacolog.org/