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Panopea sp.

genus Panopea Ménard de la Groye, 1807

• Modern species: Ladinian, Middle Triassic - Present (242.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Marine

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca, class Bivalvia, order Adapedonta, family Hiatellidae

• Distribution
• Cretaceous: Hokkaido
• Miocene: Miyagi, Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Tottori, Shimane, Yamaguchi
• Miocene-Pliocene: Nagano
• Pliocene: Aomori, Miyagi
• Pleistocene: Ibaraki, Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa
• Investigation in progress: Saitama (Miocene?)

• Subtaxa
• Panopea japonica, Japanese geoduck
• Panopea nomurae