Soft-shell clam

Soft-shell clam or Sand Gaper
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Myida
Superfamily: Myoidea
Family: Myidae
Genus: Mya
Species:
M. arenaria
Binomial name
Mya arenaria

Soft-shell clams (American English) or Sand gaper (British English/Europe), scientific name Mya arenaria, popularly called "steamers", "softshells", "piss clams", "Ipswich clams", or "Essex clams", are a species of edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Myidae.

Right and left valve of the same specimen:

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