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Mercenaria mercenaria<br />

Taxon: Bivalve<br />

Kingdom: Animalia<br />

Subkingdom: Eumetazoa Phylum: Mollusca<br />

Subphylum: Superclass: Class: Bivalvia<br />

Subclass: Heterodonta Infraclass: Euheterodonta Superorder:<br />

Order: Veneroida Suborder: Infraorder:<br />

Superfamily: Veneroidea Family: Veneridae Subfamily: Venerinae<br />

Also Known As (Name - Type): Common Names:<br />

Ecoregion-level distribution<br />

Master Classifications<br />

NWP<br />

Date 1st record: 1996<br />

Loc 1st record: Tokyo Bay, Japan<br />

Established: Yes<br />

Taxonomic Author: (Linnaeus, 1758)<br />

Mercenaria mercenaria texana of authors Misidentified<br />

Venus (Mercenaria) mercenaria Synonym<br />

Venus mercenaria Synonym<br />

Type Locality: Pennsylvania (montibus Sveciae fossilis), <strong>US</strong>A<br />

No<br />

Hawaii<br />

cherrystone<br />

hard shell clam<br />

Hon-binosugai<br />

quahog<br />

Species ID: 1553<br />

Print Date: 9/9/2012 11:26:34 PM<br />

NEP<br />

1901<br />

San Francisco Estuary, CA<br />

Yes<br />

VECTORS<br />

SH X MS AF X<br />

ID RE AP REC SF HR O<br />

BW SB HF S/R AE AA IR<br />

A P X<br />

X<br />

X X AO PO<br />

Comments: The NWA clam Mercenaria mercenaria has established populations in the NEP, NWP, and Mediterranean,<br />

and went extinct in Hawaii. According to Arnold et al. (2009), only M. campechiensis is native to Gulf of Mexico and<br />

occurrences of M. mercenaria in the Gulf represent an introduction.<br />

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