Panopea abrupta: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Bivalvia
- Order
- Adapedonta
- Family
- Hiatellidae
- Genus
- Panopea
- Species
- Panopea abrupta
- Scientific Name
- Panopea abrupta
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Panopea abrupta
Panopea abrupta is an extinct species of large marine bivalve mollusc in the family Hiatellidae, originally described as Mya abrupta. Its fossils were found in Miocene-aged marine strata near Astoria, Oregon. Between 1983 and 2010, this species of clam was confused with the Pacific geoduck, Panopea generosa, in the scientific literature.
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