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Cards In This Set
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Clinocardium nuttallii
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 Heart cockle – suspension feeder, lives just below sediment surface, shows strong escape response to predatory seastars. |
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Crassostrea gigas
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 Japanese oyster – suspension feeder, species introduced from Japan early this century, widely outplanted and farmed by local oyster farmers (in-situ aquaculture, eaten) |
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Ostrea lurida
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 Native oyster (range Baja California to British Columbia. This small oyster broods is larvae for a few weeks before they are released to feed and grow for 2 more weeks before settling. This species is currently rebounding in Pacific estuaries. (not from Portside) |
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Macoma nasuta
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 Bent nosed clam – surface deposit feeder |
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Macoma inquinata
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 Surface deposit feeder |
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Macoma “balthica”
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 Pink mud clam – surface deposit feeder – small, high intertidal |
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Tresus capax
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 Gaper clam/horse clam – suspension feeder (eaten) |
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Leukoma staminea
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 Littleneck clam – suspension feeder (eaten) |
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Saxidomus giganteus
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 Butter clam – suspension feeder (eaten) |
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Mya arenaria
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 Softshell clam – susp. feeder, species intro. from Atlantic early this century |
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Cryptomya californica
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 Suspension feeder, ghost crab associate - siphons open into burrows of ghost shrimp |
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Euspira lewisii
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 Moon snail – predator on clams, drills a hole and sucks out flesh. Not present as a live organism, but the shell and photos of its drilled hole is in laboratory. |
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Nucella ostrina
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 Dog whelk - occurs in rocks and eats barnacles and mussels. Lays yellow egg capsules (groups of goblets) from which crawl away juvenile eventually emerge. |
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Lacuna spp.
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 Herbivore, grazer of epiphytes on Zostera (eel grass blades) |
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Neotrypaea californiensis
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 Ghost shrimp – subsurface deposit feeder, detritivore |
