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Purple Asian Clam

Corbicula largillierti (Philippi 1844)

Body symmetry

Namigai et al 2014
bilaterally symmetric
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324

Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves

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body length

Shelled animal body mass

30 mm

(adult, single measurement)
Femorale

30 mm

(adult, single measurement)

body volume

Shelled animal body mass

3 cm^3

(adult, single measurement)

cellularity

Cellularity and growth form
multicellular
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993

Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]

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geographic distribution

China Species List
China
URI: http://www.geonames.org/1814991

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invasive in

Simpson et al 2020
The Contiguous United States
URI: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q578170

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mineralized skeleton contains

Mineralogy
aragonite
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/CHEBI_52239

Definition: Calcium carbonate (CO3Ca), aragonite structure

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number of records in gbif

GBIF data coverage

299

reproduction

Fairbairn 2013
sexual reproduction
URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0019953

Definition: Capable of creating a new organism by combining the genetic material of two gametes, which may come from two parent organisms or from a single organism, in the case of self-fertilizing hermaphrodites.

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wet body mass

Shelled animal body mass

5.25 g

(adult, single measurement)