Meretrix lusoria: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Bivalvia
- Order
- Venerida
- Family
- Veneridae
- Genus
- Meretrix
- Species
- Meretrix lusoria
- Scientific Name
- Meretrix lusoria
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Meretrix lusoria
Meretrix lusoria, the hamaguri, Asian hard clam or common Orient clam, is a species of saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams. This species is native to Asia, originally described around the waters of Japan. It is commercially exploited for sushi, and its shells are traditionally used to make white go stones.
The hamaguri clam is the subject of a haiku by Matsuo Bashō.
...Meretrix lusoria in languages:
- Chinese
- 文蛤
- Chinese
- 蚶仔
- Czech
- venuška lesklá
- Danish
- En art venusmusling
- Dutch
- Japanese venusschelp
- English
- Japanese Hard Clam
- English
- Poker Chip Venus
- English
- Poker-chip Venus
- English
- Hamaguri
- Japanese
- ハマグリ
- Korean
- 백합
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