Biology:Corbicula leana

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Short description: Species of bivalve


Corbicula leana
Scientific classification edit
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]

Three nominal species are synonymized with C. leana: C. arata (Sowerby, 1877), C. poppei Thach & Huber, 2021, and C. noetlingi Martens, 1899.[2] The invasive lineage "form B/Rlc" (COI haplotypes FW1/FW4) corresponds to C. leana.[2]

Culinary use

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

References

Wikidata ☰ Q11340141 entry