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Corbicula japonica, Japanese basket clam(s)

Corbicula japonica (Prime, 1864)

Invalid synonym: Corbicula fuscata var. astrata, Corbicula astrata

• Modern species
• Habitat: Brackish, Freshwater, Tideland

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Mollusca, class Bivalvia, family Cyrenidae, genus Corbicula

• Distribution
• Eocene: Saga
• Miocene: Saga
• Miocene-Pliocene: Nagano
• Pleistocene: Hokkaido, Akita, Niigata, Ishikawa, Ibaraki, Tokyo, Chiba, Shizuoka, Aichi
• Holocene: Toyama, Chiba
• Investigation in progress: Aichi