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== Ecology == | == Ecology == | ||
[[File: | [[File:Point Map of Panopea generosa.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Description]] | ||
The geoduck 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]]. Geoducks 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 geoduck 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 geoduck includes: [[humans]], [[crabs]], [[sea stars]], [[sea otters]], and [[snails]]. Even with all of these threats some geoducks 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> | The geoduck 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]]. Geoducks 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 geoduck 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 geoduck includes: [[humans]], [[crabs]], [[sea stars]], [[sea otters]], and [[snails]]. Even with all of these threats some geoducks 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> | ||
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