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clam

common name for several kinds of bivalve molluscs
Class type of: Bivalvia, shellfish, seafood Q1192868

Facts

5 properties
Instance of
organisms known by a particular common name
Subclass of
Bivalvia, shellfish, seafood[2][3][4]
Described by source
Gujin Tushu Jicheng, Gujin Tushu Jicheng, The New Student's Reference Work[5][6]
P14470
Concepts/Clam[21]
Taxon known by this common name
Plebidonax deltoides, Donax trunculus, Paphies australis, Dinocardium robustum, Spisula, Grooved carpet shell, Ensis, hard clam, Siliqua patula, Venerupis, Veneridae, Gould's razor shell, geoduck, Meretrix lyrata, Mytilus galloprovincialis, Arctica islandica, Arcidae, Cerastoderma edule, Mya arenaria[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]
🏷️ Also known as
en clam ar زلفية ar محار ملزمي de Venusmuscheln el Αχιβάδα es almeja fa صدف دوکفه‌ای fa صدف دوکفه ای fr palourde fr palourdes he קלאם id Kerang it vongola it Vongole ja クラム ko 조개 ms kepah pt amêijoa pt Ameijoa pt Sarnambi
🔖 Identifiers · 29
Library of Congress authority ID
sh85117923
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Clams.JPG ↗
Amazon.com browse node
16319201, 15500525011
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/12967
BNCF Thesaurus ID
14186
Biblissima authority ID
AikBank
Canadian Encyclopedia article ID
clam
Dewey Decimal Classification
594.4
Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID
73209
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
animal/clam
Exact match
purl.obolibrary.org
Freebase ID
/m/0ffhy
Show all 29 identifiers +17
Giant Bomb ID (former scheme)
3015-4044
INRAN Italian Food ID
127170
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
clams
KBpedia ID
Clam
NALT ID
12123, 53276
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007558469005171
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
457947
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials ID
tgm002134
Topic's main category
Category:Clams
Treccani ID
vongola
Treccani Vocabulary ID
vongola
USDA NDB number
15159
Vikidia article ID
fr:Palourde
Wellcome Collection concept ID
t3h8nezg
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
07802662-n
Yale LUX ID
concept/1dfd80dd-5f4f-4e24-b2d3-0508712533a0
Zhihu topic ID
19622480

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🔗 Connections
Taxon known by this common name 19
Mytilus galloprovincialis, Cerastoderma edule, Arctica islandica, geoduck, Veneridae, Arcidae, Mya arenaria, hard clam +11 more
← Made from material 6
clam chowder, carne de porco à alentejana, Sarsuela, clam dip, Fabes con almejas, jaecheop-guk
Subclass of 3
Bivalvia, seafood, shellfish
Described by source 2
Gujin Tushu Jicheng, Gujin Tushu Jicheng
Named after 1
Operation Clambake
Topic's main category 1
Category:Clams
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Clams
← Has goal 1
clam digging
← Main food source 1
Gadus morhua
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Summary

clam is an organisms known by a particular common name[1].

Body

Discovery and Description

Things named for clam include Operation Clambake[22], a website[23], in Norway[24], founded in 1996[25].

Why It Matters

Entities named for clam include Operation Clambake[22], a website[23], in Norway[24], founded in 1996[25].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [23] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14w ago · Kirilloparma · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14470 → Concepts/Clam
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14470: Concepts/Clam, Adding missing [[P:P14470|P14470]] and [[P:P9675|P9675]] qualifier based on [[P:P5247|P5247]]"
  2. 14w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority ID → AikBank
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority ID: Q293650, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  3. 15w ago · Sadads · 2026-07-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Canadian Encyclopedia article ID → clam
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Canadian Encyclopedia article ID: clam, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/53421595|Clam (#53421595)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/1367|Canadian Encyclope"
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