sweem

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sweem - gaper

Hul’q’umi’num’ Name: sweem

Taxon Name: Tresus sp.

“Common” Name: gaper

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Ecological Community: Marine

Wikipedia summary:
Tresus is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Mactridae. Many of them are known under the common name the horse clam or as species of gaper clam. They are similar to geoducks.

Observational Data:
First reported: 2012-08-27
Source: dataPaper
Last reported: 2016-03-05
Source: dataPaper
Obervation count: 4