Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Heterodonta > Infraclass Euheterodonta > Order Veneroida > Superfamily Cyrenoidea > Family Cyrenidae > Genus Corbicula

Corbicula fluminea (O. F. Müller, 1774)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Tellina Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Corbicula*	Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811	accepted genus name
*Cyrena*	Lamarck, 1818	synonym

Species group names

*Tellina fluminea*	O. F. Muller, 1774	objective synonym
*Tellina fluviatilis*	Muller, 1774	subjective synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: Aziatische korfmossel

English: Asian clam; Asiatic clam; prosperity clam sources: ITIS database;Dewarumez, J.-M.; Gévaert, F.; Massé, C.; Foveau, A.; Desroy, N.; Grulois, D. (2011). Les espèces marines animales et végétales introduites dans le bassin Artois-Picardie . UMR CNRS 8187 LOG/Agence de l’Eau Artois-Picardie: Douai. 138 pp.

French: clam asiatique

Literature

additional source	Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453
additional source	Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg
redescription	Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
Barcode of Life (15 barcodes)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (61 publications)
GenBank (126 nucleotides; 59 proteins)
GBIF
GBIF

Citation

Bouchet, P. (2014). Corbicula fluminea. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:181580

Dr Rafael Araujo. Corbicula fluminea (O. F. Muller, 1774). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=337875