Biology:Corbicula leana

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Short description: Species of bivalve


Corbicula leana
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Venerida
Superfamily: Cyrenoidea
Family: Cyrenidae
Genus: Corbicula
Species:
C. leana
Binomial name
Corbicula leana
Prime, 1867

Corbicula leana, known as chamjaecheop (참재첩; "true jaecheop") in Korean and as mashijimi (真蜆; "true shijimi") in Japanese, is a species of freshwater and brackish water clams, distributed in the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese archipelago.[1]

Culinary use

In Korean cuisine, Corbicula leana are used in a clam soup known as jaecheop-guk.[citation needed]

References

  1. Köhler, F. (2011). "Corbicula leana". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN) 2011: e.T189564A8748990. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T189564A8748990.en. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/189564/0. Retrieved 14 January 2018. 

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