Clementia papyracea
- Usual depth3.7 m
- Water temperature24–29 °C
- Best monthsAugust and September
- How commonRare
Photo credit: (c) Ashwin Srinivasan, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 4 records
- February: 3 records
- March: 3 records
- April: 3 records
- May: 1 records
- June: 0 records
- July: 3 records
- August: 10 records
- September: 6 records
- October: 0 records
- November: 0 records
- December: 3 records
Depth and water temperature
Depth
Mostly recorded at 3.7 m · Deepest record: 3.7 m
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 24–29 °C
Names and classification
Names in 3 more languages
- Japanese
- カミブスマ, フスマガイ
- Korean
- 수수조개, 할미조개
- Simplified Chinese
- 和平蛤
Other scientific names: Anatina vitrea, Astarte hyderabadensis, Blainvillia erythraea, Clementia annandalei, Clementia cumingii, Clementia mcclellandi, Clementia moretonensis, Clementia similis, Clementia speciosa, Clementia strangei, Clementia vatheleti, Lutraria crassiplica, Mactra papyracea, Mactra vitrea, Venus astarteoides, Venus hyalina, Venus hyderabadensis, Venus nonscripta, Venus papyracea
Similar species
New Zealand CockleAustrovenus stutchburyi
Wedding-cake venusBassina disjecta
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Chinese Venus ClamCyclina sinensis
Comb CirceGafrarium pectinatum
Camp pitar-venusLioconcha castrensis
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 189 open-data records from 1814 to 2014.
- Species data updated November 1, 2026.
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