Anatomy Of A Razor Clam

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The ligament provides tension to bring the valves apart while one or two adductor muscles can contract to close the valves.

Anatomy of a razor clam. Many have a siphon. The anatomy of a clam for bio 3b. They filter water as they.

Like all mollusks a clam has a mantle which surrounds its soft body. When the clam is very young this layer is brown. Razor clams like other shellfish may accumulate dangerous levels of the marine toxin domoic acid.

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

A pacific razor clam has a mouth a heart kidneys gills and an anus. A razor clam is a shellfish in the siliqua genus that lives along the eastern and western coastlines of the united states. I uploaded it so the people in my biology lab could see it.

Pacific razor clams are bivalves. Clams are not always found at the surface. In adolescence and adult life it is a brownish yellow and brown again with old age.

2 this shell has an outer tissue like layer called the periostracum that changes color as the bicuspid grows. Sand they are incapable of horizontal movements. It also has a muscular foot which enables the clam to burrow itself in mud or sand.

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. Razor clams have the ability of digging up to a foot in a minute and have been recorded at depths more than four feet. The razor clam has a slender lengthy 1 slightly curved shell.

They spend part of their time too deep in the sand to be disturbed by diggers or the surf. Anatomy of a pacific razor clam razor clam shells. A hinged joint and a ligament connect two elongated calcium based shell halves.

Please try again later. A razor clam reaches maturity in its second year of life.

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