Panopea (bivalve)
| Panopea Temporal range: | |
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| Panopea zelandica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Adapedonta |
| Family: | Hiatellidae |
| Genus: | Panopea Ménard, 1807 |
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Panopea is a genus of large marine bivalve molluscs or clams in the family Hiatellidae. There are 10 described species in Panopea. Many of them are known by the common name geoduck, from the name of the Pacific geoduck in the Lushootseed language; gʷidəq.