Mercenaria: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Bivalvia
- Order
- Venerida
- Family
- Veneridae
- Genus
- Mercenaria
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Mercenaria
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Mercenaria
Mercenaria is a genus of edible marine bivalves in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams. The genus includes the quahogs, consisting of Mercenaria mercenaria, the northern quahog or hard clam, and M. campechiensis, the southern quahog, both important species for human consumption.
...Mercenaria in languages:
- English
- Quahogs
- English
- Hard Clams
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Ameghinomya
- Anomalocardia
- Anomalodiscus
- Antigona
- Austrovenus
- Bassina
- Callithaca
- Chamelea
- Chione
- Chioneryx
- Chionista
- Chionopsis
- Circomphalus
- Clausinella
- Dosina
- Eurhomalea
- Globivenus
- Humilaria
- Iliochione
- Leukoma
- Lirophora
- Mercenaria
- Panchione
- Paphonotia
- Periglypta
- Placamen
- Protocallithaca
- Proxichione
- Retrotapes
- Tawera
- Timoclea
- Venus































































































































































