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Do clam feet actually have little toes that are used in reproduction? This seems like a joke to me, but I'm not taking it out right away just in case there actually is a cite for it somewhere. 20:16, 18 September 2007 (UTC)DaveOTN
I'm no expert, but apparently there is no scientific classification for the clam. Hence there should be no taxobox. Can anyone verify this? (Note that a taxobox has been added and removed twice previously) Jcsutton 12:50, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I was the one who put the taxobox. It said on the first line that it was the class Bivalvia. An I also found that it was phylum Mollusca on the Internet. So I assumed Animal Kingdom, but I checked for that.Sidious1701 00:14, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
how long do clams live under water? email the answer to me at: juarez3408@yahoo.com
I think that the term "clam" refers to a general catagorization of animals in the Bivalvia class. THerefore this article should be like other articles for a class, or a redirect to Bivalvia. http://home.earthlink.net/~s_peters/ctaxonomy.html --BenWhitey 19:46, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
'Clam juice' page redirects to 'Clams' yet there is no mention of 'clam juice' on 'clam' page. Why do a redirect if you are not going to add the information. Seems to defeat the purpose. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.246.213.130 (talk) 20:44, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I've got a photo of a clam i'm planning to upload and use on one of the articles... Problem is that i'm unsure of it's name, see:
Any ideas? Thanks/wangi 12:57, 21 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I got some books on clams and should be able to update tomorrow. Keegan 23:24, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I couldn't find anything in wikipedia regarding reproduction. Interestinly enough, I found another complaint on the web that he couldn't either! Editors probably have some hierarchy in which reproduction is discussed at the peak of the pyramid or something. But I couldn't find it. I finally found info elsewhere suggesting that clams were fish (duh!). But that some maturing males become females! Otherwise like fish, I guess. Wikipedia is supposed to be written for the average person, not insiders. This will mean repeating the same common stuff over and over within species and subspecies, I suspect.Student7 03:26, 10 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Is there any history of a man or woman successfully crossbreeding with any genus of clam? I ask this because I am keenly interested in the possibility 74.69.123.20 (talk) 16:55, 18 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
completely not possible, never happened and never will, atleast by what I've learned ^_^ --69.233.89.61 (talk) 03:10, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
...the THUNDERCLAM?! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.29.136.102 (talk) 17:29, 16 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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I took this image of live topneck clams for sale at a California seafood market if someone thinks it would be good to include. If not, no worries.
ChildofMidnight (talk) 05:13, 27 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Is it true some cultures used clam shells as a currency? It's an idea that I've seen a lot in fiction (admittedly, mostly of the sort you wouldn't expect to be historically accurate), and I don't know if it's based on anything. Maybe some writers just decided that cowry shells didn't look enough like coins. Daibhid C (talk) 23:08, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Could someone add more information about the ANIMAL ITSELF instead of how it's useful to humans? That would totally improve the article. Things like locomotion, skeletal structure, and eating habits. I'd do it myself, but i don't have the knowledge of the animal or of editing articles. Thankya! ^_^ -Pooja --69.233.89.61 (talk) 03:11, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
OK. Thankya!--69.233.89.61 (talk) 03:13, 10 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]
There is currently a Bivalvia article, but isn't it the same as this? FunkMonk (talk) 19:14, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
No, and I'd disagree with the text that claims that "clam" can be applied broadly to any bivalve. In vernacular, culinary, and scientific usage, "clam" refers specifically to burrowing bivalves, and disincludes groups such as mussels, oysters, and scallops, and other clam-like extant and fossil groups like brachiopods. The article could use some attention regarding clam-specific biologic information... Westerncenter (talk)
When I was at my cousin's home, we had clam for dinner. But the children ate first,(My 4 cousins and me)my cousin and I finished first! So we went in the kitchen to watch the uncooked clams.We saw that they were still alive, so my cousin Racheal(fake name to protect identity)touched one, it moved!Then I put one close to he metal bowl, and t spurted it's meat out! That is the discovery, it may seem normal to you, but to us, it is amazing!Because we're just kids! frm Wikiuser299. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiuser299 (talk • contribs) 13:46, 9 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I haven't been able to find anything fresh in Australia sold as "clams", however, I have found "volvone" in Sydney, and in Tasmania they sell locally-harvested "pippies" and "periwinkles". I am trying to find out whether or not these count as a kind of "clam". Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. :) -- TyrS chatties 04:41, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I don't have time to look into this thoroughly, but I noticed that this article mentions that clams have no eyes. However, a preliminary search turned up three articles that suggest that certain clams have simple types of eye:
Animals with Pinhole Visual Systems http://www.osa-opn.org/Content/ViewFile.aspx?id=11013
The spatial resolution of the pinhole eyes of giant clams (Tridacna maxima) http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/270/1511/185.full.pdf
Charting Evolution’s Trajectory: Using Molluscan Eye Diversity to Understand Parallel and Convergent Evolution http://biology.fullerton.edu/people/faculty/doug-eernisse/pubs/Serb_Eernisse_08.pdf
Would anyone available please look into this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.107.200.69 (talk) 00:47, 16 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
I recently converted this into a redirect to Bivalvia. I suspect this may be undone soon, and would like to lay out some of my reasoning here. The opening sentence of this article is "Clam is the general common name of any mollusks within the class Bivalvia." If it is a common name for another class of animal, then why is it not included with the article on that animal and mentioned as a common name? We don't have separate articles for Canis canis and "dog", we have "dog." Beyond this, the content of the article duplicates (though only haphazardly) the content of Bivalvia— this means we have a second article that covers the same topic less well, which is unhelpful to readers. Next, the article makes reference to and covers topics which are specific to particular languages (Italian, Japenese, etc.) which do not even have the word "clam" in their vocabularies and which organize their sense of molluscs differently from the way that we do in English. And next, in the various articles on specific species of clam, the introductory sentence nearly always reads "...is a marine/ freshwater bivalve mollusc if the family XXXX-idae." While I appreciate that the term "clam" is used by some English speakers to indicate particular classes of animals (according to one source, it refers specifically and only to Mya arenaria and no other species, distinguishing it from the quahogs and the scallops and presumably from the hard shell clams), having an article whose content includes no useful information distinguishing "clams" from any other bivalve group is disorienting and impractical and does not further the intentions of the Project. From the talk page above it is evident that I am not the first editor to have questioned the utility of having a separate article on "clams"— I didn't intend to redirect this article until I read its content, and saw that it consisted of duplicate information unrelated to its use in English. If we want to have an article called "Clam" then we need to fill that article with information that is not simply duplicated in another article, and if that cannot be done (which, according to the content of the article when I last saw it, could not) then it seems to me that the articles aught to point to the same namespace. KDS4444 (talk) 01:17, 22 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Following the discussion over changes to Bivalvia following the bold redirect there I feel we are at the revert + discuss stage to establish consensus. Please see discussion at Talk:Bivalvia#Proposed_merger_of_Clam_into_Bivalvia to establish consensus. BW |→ Spaully ~talk~ 10:42, 22 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
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Is the definition of a clam a edible bivalve?
Are cockles, mussels oysters and scallops clams because they are edible— Preceding unsigned comment added by Gyrkin (talk • contribs)