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    The hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), also known as the round clam, hard-shell (or hard-shelled) clam, or the quahog, is an edible marine bivalve mollusk...
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    Mercenaria is a genus of edible saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams. The genus Mercenaria includes the quahogs...
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  • M. mercenaria may refer to: Menippe mercenaria, the Florida stone crab, an edible crab species found in the western North Atlantic, from North Carolina...
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    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...
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    of Canada, the term "clam" most often refers to the hard clam, Mercenaria mercenaria. It may also refer to a few other common edible species, such as...
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    important commercially, such as (in the USA) the hard clam or quahog, Mercenaria mercenaria. The classification within the family Veneridae has been controversial...
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  • Mercenaria stimpsoni is a species of saltwater clam. The species lives at least 92 years. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Mercenaria stimpsoni...
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  • Mercenárias (Portuguese for "Mercenaries"), sometimes erroneously referred to as As Mercenárias, are a Brazilian all-female rock band formed in São Paulo...
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    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...
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  • were cut from the purple part of the shell of the marine bivalve Mercenaria mercenaria, more commonly known as the hard clam or quahog. White beads were...
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    Callinectes sapidus. It is an important predator of the quahog, Mercenaria mercenaria, in Narragansett Bay, and of the barnacle Balanus improvisus in...
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    purple shell beads made from the quahog or poquahock clamshell Mercenaria mercenaria. Sewant or zeewant was the term used for this currency by the New...
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    several fisheries worldwide, such as in the Florida stone crab (Menippe mercenaria) fishery, the north-east Atlantic deep-water red crab (Chaceon affinis)...
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    Southampton Meeting, 1964. Southampton University Press. p. 119. "Mercenaria mercenaria". Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Joint Nature Conservation...
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    -RFamide sequence at their C-terminus. First identified in Hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), it is thought to play an important role in cardiac activity regulation...
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    parasite in the class Labyrinthulomycota that affects hard clams (Mercenaria mercenaria; quahogs), both cultured and wild. Parasites similar to QPX were...
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    magellanicus Infaunal bivalves Clam Atlantic surf clam Soft-shell clam Mercenaria mercenaria Austrovenus stutchburyi Saxidomus nuttalli Arctica islandica Cockle...
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  • MercenariaMercenaria campechiensis †Mercenaria capax †Mercenaria corrugata †Mercenaria cuneata †Mercenaria druidi †Mercenaria inflata †Mercenaria mercenaria...
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  • lobster trap prayer handle — knee quahog — thick-shelled clam (Mercenaria mercenaria) scrid — a tiny piece; a little bit right out straight — too busy...
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    Oviatt, and J.R. Reilly 1986. The effects of the filter feeding clam Mercenaria mercenaria on carbon cycling in experimental marine mesocosms. Journal of Marine...
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    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...
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    assay for QPX (Thraustochytriidae), a parasite of the hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria)". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 75 (14): 4913–4918. Bibcode:2009ApEnM...
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  • feeders are mostly burrowers. Arctica islandica = Ocean Quahog Mercenaria mercenaria = Northern Quahog / Hardshell Clam Pitar morrhuanus = False Quahog...
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    such as clams, oysters, and mussels. One of its main prey is the Mercenaria mercenaria, commonly known as the hard clam. This gastropod is closely related...
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    mercenarius Wikidata: Q582720 Wikispecies: Amazona mercenarius ADW: Amazona_mercenaria Avibase: CED01CA4801596CF BirdLife: 22686354 BOLD: 745404 BOW: scnpar1...
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    Sydney rock oyster (Saccostrea commercialis), the northern quahog (Mercenaria mercenaria), the blue mussel (Mytilus edulis), the Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus...
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    Although this clam is sweeter in taste than the northern quahog, Mercenaria mercenaria, it is a lot smaller, and is rarely eaten. Odd valves of Chione...
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    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...
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    Tapes philippinarum, Venus verrucosa, and the northern quahog Mercenaria mercenaria). Prey are chosen by the whelk according to their species and size...
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    made by clionaid sponge (producing the trace Entobia) after the death of a modern bivalve shell of species Mercenaria mercenaria, from North Carolina...
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