Anatomy Of A Razor Clam

Anatomy of a pacific razor clam razor clam shells. Sand they are incapable of horizontal movements.

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Anatomy of a razor clam. A razor clam reaches maturity in its second year of life. Pacific razor clams are a highly desirable shellfish species and are collected by both commercial and recreational harvesters. In adolescence and adult life it is a brownish yellow and brown again with old age.

The ligament provides tension to bring the valves apart while one or two adductor muscles can contract to close the valves. Both the atlantic and pacific razor clam can be found buried in the sand on the shoreline as well as in sheltered locations and in the water a short distance offshore. I uploaded it so the people in my biology lab could see it.

Razor clams like other shellfish may accumulate dangerous levels of the marine toxin domoic acid. A hinged joint and a ligament connect two elongated calcium based shell halves. Clams are not always found at the surface.

Clams also have kidneys a heart a mouth a stomach a nervous system and an anus. A razor clam is a shellfish in the siliqua genus that lives along the eastern and western coastlines of the united states. Please try again later.

Like all mollusks a clam has a mantle which surrounds its soft body. 2 this shell has an outer tissue like layer called the periostracum that changes color as the bicuspid grows. A pacific razor clam has a mouth a heart kidneys gills and an anus.

Pacific razor clams are bivalves. Razor clams have the ability of digging up to a foot in a minute and have been recorded at depths more than four feet. The soft tissue above the foot is called the visceral mass and contains the clams body organs.

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Many have a siphon. This is the video of the anatomy of a clam. It also has a muscular foot which enables the clam to burrow itself in mud or sand.

The razor clam has a slender lengthy 1 slightly curved shell. When the clam is very young this layer is brown.

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