Corbicula leana

Corbicula leana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Venerida
Superfamily: Cyrenoidea
Family: Cyrenidae
Genus: Corbicula
Species:
C. leana
Binomial name
Corbicula leana
Prime, 1867

Corbicula leana, known as chamjaecheop (참재첩; "true jaecheop") in Korean and as mashijimi (真蜆; "true shijimi") in Japanese, is a species of freshwater and brackish water clams, distributed in the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese archipelago.[1]

Three nominal species are synonymized with C. leana: C. arata (Sowerby, 1877), C. poppei Thach & Huber, 2021, and C. noetlingi Martens, 1899.[2] The invasive lineage "form B/Rlc" (COI haplotypes FW1/FW4) corresponds to C. leana.[2]

Culinary use

In Korean cuisine, Corbicula leana are used in a clam soup known as jaecheop-guk.

References

  1. ↑ Köhler, F. (2011). "Corbicula leana". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2011. IUCN: e.T189564A8748990. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T189564A8748990.en. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
  2. 1 2 Bespalaya YV, Kropotin AV, Aksenova OV, Gofarov MY, Kondakov AV, Konopleva ES, Khrebtova IS, Mabrouki Y, Palatov DM, Prokin AA, Karabanov DP, Travina OV, Taybi AF, Izzatulaev ZI, Boymurodov KT, Tahirova EN, Snegovaya NY, Tien TV, Vikhrev IV, Vinarski MV, Kyi CT, Chan N, Lunn Z, Unnikrishnan SK, Pattnaik S, Raut D, Subba Rao NV, Bolotov IN (2026). "Global Molecular Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Biogeography of the Clam Genus Corbicula (Bivalvia: Cyrenidae)". Zoologica Scripta. 55 (1): 74–101. doi:10.1111/zsc.70022.