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* '''Family:''' [[Hiatellidae]] | * '''Family:''' [[Hiatellidae]] | ||
* '''Genus:''' [[Panopea]] | * '''Genus:''' [[Panopea]] | ||
* '''Species:''[[ P. generosa]]'''<ref> [http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=81777 Panopea generosa] "ITIS-Report". Web. December 2, 2012(Date-of-publication).</ref> | * '''Species:''[[ P. generosa]]'''<ref> [http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=81777 Panopea-generosa] "ITIS-Report". Web. December 2, 2012(Date-of-publication).</ref> | ||
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== Ecology == | == Ecology == | ||
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The goeduck clam can be found along the West Coast of North America, in locations ranging from Baja, California all the way to Alaska. It lives in lower intertidal and subtidal zones of bays, sloughs, and estuaries. Goeducks bury themselves below the sand and extend their siphon out to filter feed. They will burrow in any substrate, from soft mud to pea gravel. The goeduck is a filter feeder. This means it will eat any small organisms that it filters through its siphon. The major food source of Panopea generosa is phytoplankton. The predators of the goeduck includes: humans, crabs, sea stars, sea otters, and snails. Even with all of these threats some goeducks can live to be over a hundred years old.<ref> [http://wikis.evergreen.edu/marinelife1011/index.php/Panopea_generosa#cite_note-2 Ever-green] ''marine-life-1011''. Web. March 7, 2011(Date-of-publication).</ref> | |||
