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Species of bivalve

Saxidomus nuttalli

Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Order:	Venerida
Superfamily:	Veneroidea
Family:	Veneridae
Genus:	Saxidomus
Species:	S. nuttalli
Binomial name
*Saxidomus nuttalli* Dixon, 1788

Saxidomus nuttalli is a species of large edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Veneridae, the venus clams. Common names include California butterclam and Washington clam.

This clam is native to the west coast of North America, its distribution extending from northern California to Baja California.

This is a commercially exploited species that attains a length of approximately 15 cm.

Archaeology

This species was harvested by Chumash peoples on the central California coast, at least as early as the Millingstone Horizon. The shells were used as currency by local native peoples.

Line notes

^ Saxidomus nuttalli. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
^ Washington Clam (Saxidomus nuttalli). Encyclopedia of the National Marine Sanctuaries, NOAA.
Intertidal, 2008
C.M.Hogan, 2008

References

Intertidal Marine Invertebrates of the South Puget Sound (2008)
C.Michael Hogan (2008) Morro Creek, The Megaltihic Portal, editor Andy Burnham

Edible mollusks

Bivalves

Clams	Atlantic jackknife Atlantic surf Geoduck Grooved carpet shell Hard clam Horse Mactra stultorum Blunt gaper Ocean quahog Pacific razor Venus California butterclam Senilia senilis Smooth clam Soft-shell Triangle shell Tuatua Japanese littleneck Razor clam Pod razor Ensis (razor genus) Paphies
Cockles	Common Blood Goolwa New Zealand Sydney Giant Atlantic
Mussels	Blue Mediterranean New Zealand green-lipped California Brown Asian/Philippine green Date Mytilidae (mussel family)
Oysters	Eastern Olympia Southern mud Colchester native Pacific Portuguese Windowpane Rock Sydney rock Ostra chilena/Bluff Gillardeau oysters Crassostrea ("true oyster" genus)
Scallops	Atlantic bay Great/king New Zealand Pecten jacobaeus Peruvian calico Yesso Placopecten magellanicus

Sea	Mud-flat Korean mud Chorus giganteus Bailer
Land	Cornu aspersum Helix lucorum Helix pomatia
Freshwater	Apple Nerites

Inkfish

Cuttlefish	Spineless Bottletail
Octopus	Common Atlantic white-spotted Big blue Pacific giant Southern red Mimic Amphioctopus fangsiao
Squid	New Zealand arrow Japanese flying Humboldt Neon flying

Chitons

Category

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Marine gastropods	Abalone Periwinkle Whelk Buccinum undatum Bullacta exarata Kelletia kelletii Kelletia lischkei
Land and freshwater gastropods	Helix pomatia Cornu aspersum Helix aperta Cepaea nemoralis Otala lactea Escargot
Free-swimming marine bivalves	Scallop Queen scallop Pecten maximus Pecten jacobaeus Argopecten irradians Placopecten magellanicus
Infaunal bivalves	Clam Atlantic surf clam Soft-shell clam Mercenaria mercenaria Austrovenus stutchburyi Saxidomus nuttalli Arctica islandica Cockle Geoduck Spisula solidissima Paphies ventricosa Paphies australis Tuatua Ruditapes largillierti Grooved carpet shell
Sessile bivalves	Oyster Mussel Pearl oyster Pinctada maxima
Freshwater bivalves	Freshwater pearl mussel
Cephalopods	Octopus Squid Cuttlefish
Techniques	Heliciculture Gathering by hand Clam digging Dredging Oyster farming Oyster boats Pearl farming Pearl diving Ama divers Trawling
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Taxon identifiers
Saxidomus nuttalli	Wikidata: Q3798403 BOLD: 981666 CoL: 79R3G GBIF: 2287848 iNaturalist: 117608 IRMNG: 11356129 ITIS: 81448 NCBI: 1129274 Observation.org: 947379 OBIS: 367778 Open Tree of Life: 2858113 Paleobiology Database: 167981 SeaLifeBase: 48822 WoRMS: 367778

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