Live Sphaerium sp. moving around with its foot. Collected from a pond in Portland, Oregon
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Bivalvia
Order:
Sphaeriida
Superfamily:
Sphaerioidea
Family:
Sphaeriidae
Genus:
Sphaerium Scopoli, 1777
Species
See text.
Sphaerium is a genus of very small freshwater clams, aquatic bivalve molluscs in the family Sphaeriidae, known as the fingernail clams. The small clams in this genus are unusual in that many of them, such as Sphaerium corneum, can climb around underwater on aquatic plants, using their long and strong foot.
Sphaerium is a genus of very small freshwater clams, aquatic bivalve molluscs in the family Sphaeriidae, known as the fingernail clams. The small clams...
Sphaerium ovale is a freshwater bivalve of the family Sphaeriidae. Not mentioned in IUCN Red List – Not Evaluated (NE) Germany 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened...
Sphaerium solidum, the solid orb mussel, is a species of freshwater bivalve from family Sphaeriidae. Listed in IUCN Red List – Assessed in 2012 as NT...
Sphaerium corneum, also known as the European fingernailclam, is a very small freshwater clam, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Sphaeriidae, the...
Sphaerium rhomboideum, the rhomboid fingernailclam, is a species of freshwater clams in the family Sphaeriidae. It is found in North America. Say, 1822...
Sphaerium asiaticum is a species of bivalve belonging to the family Sphaeriidae. Per IUCN, the species has the status "least concern". "Sphaerium asiaticum...
Sphaerium nucleus is a freshwater bivalve of the family Sphaeriidae. It has been often confused with Sphaerium corneum and is consequently quite poorly...
Sphaerium nitidum is a species of mollusc belonging to the family Sphaeriidae. Its native range is Subarctic. "Sphaerium nitidum Clessin, 1876". www.gbif...
Sphaerium stuhlmanni is a species of freshwater bivalve in the family Sphaeriidae. It is endemic to Lake Victoria in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. It occurs...
Sphaerium beckmani is an extinct species of fossil freshwater pea clams from the Late Cretaceous deposits of North America. This species was first described...
Sphaerium novaezelandiae is a very small freshwater clam, an aquatic bivalve mollusc, in the family Sphaeriidae, sometimes known as the fingernail clams...
Sphaerium rivicola, the river orb mussel, is a species of freshwater bivalve from family Sphaeriidae. Its native distribution is European. Czech Republic...
Sphaerium bequaerti is a species of bivalve in the Sphaeriidae family. It is found in Burundi, the Central African Republic, Malawi and Tanzania. Its...
species/subspecies. There are 17 species of bivalves (Corbicula, Coelatura, Sphaerium, and Byssanodonta), including 6 endemic species and subspecies. It is...
life is unable to survive, and skeletons of freshwater molluscs such as Sphaerium and Planorbis accumulate as part of the bottom marl. In Hungary, Buda...
weeds using their long and flexible foot. The European fingernail clam (Sphaerium corneum), for example, climbs around on water weeds at the edges of lakes...
Coix L. Type species Coix lacryma-jobi L. Synonyms Lachrymaria Heist. ex Fabr. Lachryma-jobi Ortega Lithagrostis Gaertn. Lacryma Medik. Sphaerium Kuntze...
marine facies ("tongue"). Modern members of the genus live in fresh water Sphaerium S. beckmani "Pill clam". "Nut clam". "Fingernail clam". "Pea clam". Family...
(1998). "Induction and potentiation of parturition in fingernail clams (Sphaerium striatinum) by selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs)". Journal...
been found in the formation: Freshwater bivalves Fusconaia Lampsilis Sphaerium (2 species) Freshwater gastropods Campeloma (2 species) Elimia Goniobasis...
limnaei is also often found on freshwater mussels, especially of the genus Sphaerium. Like almost all members of the Naidinae, Chaeogaster species normally...
Family Corbiculidae, shell of Corbicula fluminea Family Sphaeriidae, Sphaerium corneum, one of the small fingernail clams. Family Dreissenidae, Dreissena...
anderssoni Jianshangou Bed Reclassified as Sphaerium anderssoni C. jeholense Reclassified as Sphaerium jeholense Gyraulus G. sp. Jianshangou Bed A ramshorn...
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