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Musculium
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Musculium

Musculium is a genus of small freshwater clams, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Sphaeriidae, the fingernail clams and pea clams.

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6 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Lake Fingernailclam

speciesMusculium lacustre

Swamp Fingernailclam

speciesMusculium partumeium

pond fingernailclam

speciesMusculium securis

Musculium japonicum

speciesMusculium japonicum

Musculium argentinum

speciesMusculium argentinum

Musculium hartmanni

speciesMusculium hartmanni

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Recorded sightings

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 83949.