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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>