Animalia > Mollusca > Bivalvia > Venerida > Mactridae > Spisula > Spisula solidissimaSpisula solidissima (Surf clam; Atlantic surfclam; En art musling; Almeja blanca; Ameijoa branca americana; Cappa americana; Mactre solide; Riesentrogmuschel; Stevige strandschelp)Synonyms: Hemimactra solidissima; Mactra gigantea; Mactra procera; Mactra similis (heterotypic); Mactra solidissima; Mactra solidissima curta; Spisula similis; Spisula solidissima similis The Atlantic surf clam (Spisula solidissima), also called the bar clam, hen clam, skimmer, or simply sea clam, is a very large, edible, saltwater clam or marine bivalve mollusk in the family Mactridae. It is commonly found in the western Atlantic Ocean. Reaching up to 20 centimetres (7.9 in) or more in length, it is much larger than the related surf clam, which resides in the eastern Atlantic waters off of Great Britain. The species is exploited commercially as a food item. |
Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Additive interactions between the moon snail Euspira heros and the sea star Asterias forbesi, two predators of the surfclam Spisula solidissima, Eric J. Weissberger, Oecologia (1999) 119:461-466 ♦ 2Food of Northwest Atlantic Fishes and Two Common Species of Squid, Ray E. Bowman, Charles E. Stillwell, William L. Michaels, and Marvin D. Grosslein, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-155 (2000) ♦ 3 Steimle FW, Pikanowski RA, McMillan DG, Zetlin CA, Wilk SJ. 2000. Demersal Fish and American Lobster Diets in the Lower Hudson - Raritan Estuary. US Dep Commer, NOAA Tech Memo NMFS NE 161; 106 p. |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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