Meretrix lamarckii explained

Meretrix lamarckii, also called Korean clam or Korean hard clam, is a species of saltwater bivalve in the family Veneridae.^[1] It is the second species of venerid clam where doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) has been identified.^[2]

Ecology

It is a medium-sized clam which lives in sandy sediments from the subtidal zone to a depth of 20 meters. In the waters off Hyūga, Miyazaki, it spawns between late July and early September.

Relationship to humans

M. lamarckii is edible and economically important in China; commercial fishing has greatly disrupted the habitat where it lives.^[3] It is a filter feeder which primarily feeds on phytoplankton.^[4] Its shell is used to make the white stones used in Go.

Bibliography

• Feng . Jiantong . Fu . Zeqin . Guo . Yahong . Li . Jiji . Guo . Baoying . Lü . Zhenming . Ye . Yingying . Strong genetic differentiation of the clam Meretrix lamarckii in the China Sea revealed by mitochondrial DNA marker . Molecular Biology Reports . 47 . 1 . 2020 . 0301-4851 . 10.1007/s11033-019-05177-9 . 693–702. 31701474 . 207941192 .
• Shigeno . Kunihiko . 1955 . Notes on the Biology of the Clam Meretrix lamarckii . Bulletin of the Japanese Society of Scientific Fisheries . 21. 4. 218–225 . 10.2331/suisan.21.218. free .

References

Notes and References

1. https://www.gbif.org/species/5855748 Meretrix lamarckii
2. Bettinazzi . Stefano . Plazzi . Federico . Passamonti . Marco . The Complete Female- and Male-Transmitted Mitochondrial Genome of Meretrix lamarckii . PLOS ONE . 11 . 4 . 2016-04-15 . 1932-6203 . 27083010 . 4833323 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0153631 . e0153631 . free .
3. Shao YQ, Zhang JM, Fang J et al (2017). "Reproductive cycle and early development of Meretrix lamarkii (Veneroida: Veneridae) under artificial conditions" (in Chinese with English abstract). J Fish Sci China 24:82–90
4. Itoi . Shiro . Uchida . Junya . Takanashi . Shihori . Narita . Tomoyo . Abe . Koko . Naya . Satomi . Sugita . Haruo . The clam Meretrix lamarckii (Bivalvia: Veneridae) is a rich repository of marine lactic acid bacterial strains . Annals of Microbiology . 64 . 3 . 2014 . 1590-4261 . 10.1007/s13213-013-0771-1 . 1267–1274. free .