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Panopea japonica, Japanese geoduck(s)

Panopea japonica A. Adams, 1850

• Modern species
• Habitat: Marine

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

• Distribution
• Miocene: Miyagi, Gunma, Tochigi
• Pliocene: Aomori, Miyagi
• Pliocene-Pleistocene: Oita
• Pleistocene: Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa
• Investigation in progress: Saitama (Miocene?)