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Saxidomus gigantea (Washington butterclam)

Synonyms: Saxidomus gigantea brevis; Saxidomus giganteus; Venerupis gigantea; Venus maxima

Wikipedia Abstract

Saxidomus gigantea, common name the butter clam, is a large edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Veneridae, the venus clams. It can be found along the western coast of North America, ranging from the Aleutian Islands to San Francisco Bay. Numerous valves of this species have been found in the shell middens on Sidney Island in British Columbia, Canada.
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Predators

Bucephala islandica (Barrow's Goldeneye)[1]
Enhydra lutris kenyoni (northern sea otter)[2]
Enteroctopus dofleini (North Pacific giant octopus)[3]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Winter food habits of Barrow's Goldeneyes in southeast Alaska, Philip S. Koehl, Thomas C. Rothe, and Dirk V. Derkson, Canadian Wildlife Service, 1984
♦ 2Doroff, A., Badjeros, O., Corbell, K., Jenski, D. and Beaver, M. (2012). Assessment of Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris kenyoni) Diet in Kachemak Bay, Alaska (2008-2010). IUCN Otter Spec. Group Bull. 29 (1): 15 - 23
♦ 3CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
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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