Mercenaria is a genus of edible saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.[1]
Left valve interior of Mercenaria mercenaria
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 cherrystones, and smallest littlenecks; some markets also differentiate top necks which are intermediate in size between cherrystones and littlenecks. The smaller clams are eaten raw throughout New England, New York, and New Jersey; the larger clams are more suited for cooking.
Other species within the genus include the venus clam M. stimpsoni found in north Pacific waters. All these species were formerly placed in the related genus Venus.
The hard clam (Mercenariamercenaria), also known as the round clam, hard-shell (or hard-shelled) clam, or the quahog, is an edible marine bivalve mollusk...
Mercenaria is a genus of edible saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams. The genus Mercenaria includes the quahogs...
The Florida stone crab (Menippe mercenaria) is a crab found in the western North Atlantic, from Connecticut to Colombia, including Texas, the Gulf of Mexico...
of Canada, the term "clam" most often refers to the hard clam, Mercenariamercenaria. It may also refer to a few other common edible species, such as...
important commercially, such as (in the USA) the hard clam or quahog, Mercenariamercenaria. The classification within the family Veneridae has been controversial...
Mercenaria campechiensis is a species of bivalve belonging to the family Veneridae. Right and left valve of the same specimen: Right valve Left valve The...
Mercenaria stimpsoni is a species of saltwater clam. The species lives at least 92 years. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Mercenaria stimpsoni...
assay for QPX (Thraustochytriidae), a parasite of the hard clam (Mercenariamercenaria)". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 75 (14): 4913–4918. Bibcode:2009ApEnM...
parasite in the class Labyrinthulomycota that affects hard clams (Mercenariamercenaria; quahogs), both cultured and wild. Parasites similar to QPX were...
aphrodite female E. l. psamanthe male E. l. psamanthe female E. l. mercenaria male E. l. mercenaria female E. l. marion male E. l. marion female Wikimedia Commons...
purple shell beads made from the quahog or poquahock clamshell Mercenariamercenaria. Sewant or zeewant was the term used for this currency by the New...
were cut from the purple part of the shell of the marine bivalve Mercenariamercenaria, more commonly known as the hard clam or quahog. White beads were...
made by clionaid sponge (producing the trace Entobia) after the death of a modern bivalve shell of species Mercenariamercenaria, from North Carolina...
several fisheries worldwide, such as in the Florida stone crab (Menippe mercenaria) fishery, the north-east Atlantic deep-water red crab (Chaceon affinis)...
and seaweed. Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus), hard clams (Mercenariamercenaria) and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) are prominent in the U.S. mariculture...
stone crab. It is very closely related to the Florida stone crab, Menippe mercenaria, of which it is sometimes considered to be a subspecies. Stone crabs have...
Sydney rock oyster (Saccostrea commercialis), the northern quahog (Mercenariamercenaria), the blue mussel (Mytilus edulis), the Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus...
such as clams, oysters, and mussels. One of its main prey is the Mercenariamercenaria, commonly known as the hard clam. This gastropod is closely related...
borings and encrusting serpulid worms on a modern shell of the bivalve Mercenaria in North Carolina. Thecideide brachiopod (T), sabellid worm tube (S) and...
Tortugas pink shrimp (Farfantepenaeus duorarum) and stone crab (Menippe mercenaria) industries; between 80 and 90 percent of commercially harvested crustacean...
Dreibelbis, Dana E., "The Use of Microstructural Growth Patterns of MercenariaMercenaria to Determine the Prehistoric Seasons of Harvest at Tuckerton Midden...
Stone crab may refer to: The Florida stone crab, Menippe mercenaria (a true crab) Stone crab, Myomenippe hardwicki Hairy Stone Crab, Lomis hirta (a false...
Although this clam is sweeter in taste than the northern quahog, Mercenariamercenaria, it is a lot smaller, and is rarely eaten. Odd valves of Chione...
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