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Saxidomus
Sign in to saveSaxidomus, common name the "Washington clams", is a genus of large edible saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.
Species
butter clams
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassBivalvia
- OrderVenerida
- FamilyVeneridae
Habitatmarine
Observations2,932
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 273
- With media
- 12
- Family
- Veneridae
- Collections
- PRI, SDNHM, LACM
- Recorded in
- United States
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Saxidomus, common name the "Washington clams", is a genus of large edible saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.
The species Saxidomus gigantea is known as the "butter clam".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saxidomus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.