Mercenaria
id:
mercenaria-161-18594281
title:
Mercenaria
text:
Mercenaria is a genus of edible saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams. The genus Mercenaria includes the quahogs, consisting of Mercenaria mercenaria, the northern quahog or hard clam, and M. campechiensis, the southern quahog. These two species commonly hybridise where their ranges overlap. Mercenaria mercenaria is further subdivided in the marketplace and thence in the kitchen by size: the largest being the quahog or chowder clam, then smaller cherry
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Genus of bivalves
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercenaria
date created:
2006-02-25T17:35:11Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T14:39:01Z
main entity:
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image:
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fields total:
13
integrity:
16