Species
Clinocardium nuttallii (Nuttall's cockle)
Clinocardium nuttallii. Photo: (c) Jeff Ward, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
Clinocardium nuttallii, common name Nuttall’s cockle, basket cockle, or Heart cockle, is a species of large edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Cardiidae, the cockles.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Mollusca (Molluscs)
- Class: Bivalvia (Bivalves)
- Subclass: Autobranchia
- Infraclass: Heteroconchia
- Subterclass: Euheterodonta
- Superorder: Imparidentia
- Order: Cardiida
- Superfamily: Cardioidea
- Family: Cardiidae (Cockles)
- Subfamily: Clinocardiinae
- Genus: Clinocardium
- Species: Clinocardium nuttallii (Nuttall's cockle)
- Genus: Clinocardium
- Subfamily: Clinocardiinae
- Family: Cardiidae (Cockles)
- Superfamily: Cardioidea
- Order: Cardiida
- Superorder: Imparidentia
- Subterclass: Euheterodonta
- Infraclass: Heteroconchia
- Subclass: Autobranchia
- Class: Bivalvia (Bivalves)
- Phylum: Mollusca (Molluscs)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
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