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Ruditapes philippinarum (Japanese littleneck; Japanes carpet shell; Japanese clam; Manilla clam; Short-necked clam)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Venerupis philippinarum is an edible species of saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams. The common names of the species include "Asari" (after its Japanese name), "Japanese littleneck", "Manila clam", "steamer clam", "Filipino Venus", "Japanese cockle", and "Japanese carpet shell".
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Arao-higata National Wildlife Protection Area 1863 Kyushu, Japan      

Predators

Aetobatus flagellum (Plain eagleray)[1]
Cryptonatica janthostoma (purplemouth moonsnail)[2]
Mammilla melanostoma[3]
Melanitta fusca deglandi (American white-winged scoter)[4]
Rapana venosa (veined rapa whelk)[3]

Consumers

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1"Occurrence, Growth and Food of Longheaded Eagle Ray, Aetobatus flagellum, in Ariake Sound, Kyushu, Japan", Atsuko Yamaguchi, Itsuro Kawahara, Shirou Ito, Environmental Biology of Fishes October 2005, Volume 74, Issue 2, pp 229-238
♦ 2"Feeding behavior, ration and size structure of a population of the predatory gastropod Cryptonatica janthostoma in Vostok Bay, Sea of Japan", N. I. Selin, Russian Journal of Marine Biology Volume 34, Number 3 (2008), 186-190
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4Food Web Relationships of Northern Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca : a Synthesis of the Available Knowledge, Charles A. Simenstad, Bruce S. Miller, Carl F. Nyblade, Kathleen Thornburgh, and Lewis J. Bledsoe, EPA-600 7-29-259 September 1979
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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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