Brackish-Water Corbula

Potamocorbula amurensis

• Group: Other

A small brackish water clam, it burrows into intertidal and subtidal mud and sand and shrugs off enormous swings in salinity and temperature. That toughness has made it a notorious invader, carpeting estuary bottoms where it takes hold.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Bivalvia › Myida › Corbulidae › Potamocorbula

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 397175.