Anatomy Of A Razor Clam

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It also has a muscular foot which enables the clam to burrow itself in mud or sand.

Anatomy of a razor clam. I uploaded it so the people in my biology lab could see it. The anatomy of a clam for bio 3b. Pacific razor clams are bivalves.

A pacific razor clam has a mouth a heart kidneys gills and an anus. Sand they are incapable of horizontal movements. A hinged joint and a ligament connect two elongated calcium based shell halves.

Clams also have kidneys a heart a mouth a stomach a nervous system and an anus. The soft tissue above the foot is called the visceral mass and contains the clams body organs. Pacific razor clams are a highly desirable shellfish species and are collected by both commercial and recreational harvesters.

A razor clam reaches maturity in its second year of life. Like all mollusks a clam has a mantle which surrounds its soft body. Many have a siphon.

A razor clam is a shellfish in the siliqua genus that lives along the eastern and western coastlines of the united states. Razor clams like other shellfish may accumulate dangerous levels of the marine toxin domoic acid. When the clam is very young this layer is brown.

The razor clam has a slender lengthy 1 slightly curved shell. Clams are not always found at the surface. 2 this shell has an outer tissue like layer called the periostracum that changes color as the bicuspid grows.

Razor clams have the ability of digging up to a foot in a minute and have been recorded at depths more than four feet. They filter water as they. Anatomy of a pacific razor clam razor clam shells.

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. Please try again later. They spend part of their time too deep in the sand to be disturbed by diggers or the surf.

In adolescence and adult life it is a brownish yellow and brown again with old age. This is the video of the anatomy of a clam.

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