Clinocardium nuttallii

Clinocardium nuttallii, the basket cockle or Nuttall's cockle, is a species of large edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Cardiidae, the cockles.[1]

Clinocardium nuttallii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Subclass: Heterodonta
Order: Cardiida
Family: Cardiidae
Genus: Clinocardium
Species:
C. nuttallii
Binomial name
Clinocardium nuttallii
(Conrad, 1837)

Native to the coastlines of California and the Pacific Northwest, this species can be found from the Bering Sea to Southern California and has been used by the indigenous peoples of California and the Pacific Northwest as food.[2]

References
  1. Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
  2. The Natural World of the California Indians by Robert Fleming Heizer
  • Biodiversity of the Central Coast entry
  • WoRMS entry
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