MolluscaBase - Corbicula japonica Prime, 1864

Prime, T. (1864-1867). Notes on species of the family Corbiculadae, with figures. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. 8(3): 57-92 [June 1864]; 8(6): 213-237 [April 1866]; 8: 414-418 [1867]. New York., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16022305
page(s): 68-69, text-figure 15 [details]

Type data

Lectotype (of Corbicula papyracea var. colorata E. von...

Lectotype (of Corbicula papyracea var. colorata E. von Martens, 1905) MNB ZMB 55.628 [details]

Lectotype (of Cyrena transversa E. von Martens, 1877) MNB ZMB 26.394a [details]

, Note Japonia

Type locality Japonia [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Corbicula japonica Prime, 1864. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1349109 on 2026-09-11

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original description Prime, T. (1864-1867). Notes on species of the family Corbiculadae, with figures. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York. 8(3): 57-92 [June 1864]; 8(6): 213-237 [April 1866]; 8: 414-418 [1867]. New York., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16022305
page(s): 68-69, text-figure 15 [details]

original description (of Corbicula doenitziana Clessin, 1878) Clessin, S. (1874-1879). Die Familie der Cycladeen. In Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. In Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. 1-40, pl. 1-6 (1874), 41-48 (1875), 49-56 (1876), 57-160, pl. 7-30 (1877), 161-200, pl. 31-42 (1878), 201-283, pl. 43-46 (1879). Nürnberg. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34337291
page(s): 197, pl. 39, fig. 4 [details]

original description (of Corbicula martensii Clessin, 1878) Clessin, S. (1874-1879). Die Familie der Cycladeen. In Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. In Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. 1-40, pl. 1-6 (1874), 41-48 (1875), 49-56 (1876), 57-160, pl. 7-30 (1877), 161-200, pl. 31-42 (1878), 201-283, pl. 43-46 (1879). Nürnberg. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34337291
page(s): 196, pl. 38, figs. 17-18 [details]

original description (of Corbicula reiniana Clessin, 1878) Clessin, S. (1874-1879). Die Familie der Cycladeen. In Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. In Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. 1-40, pl. 1-6 (1874), 41-48 (1875), 49-56 (1876), 57-160, pl. 7-30 (1877), 161-200, pl. 31-42 (1878), 201-283, pl. 43-46 (1879). Nürnberg. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34337291
page(s): 196, pl. 39, figs. 8-9 [details]

original description (of Corbicula lindholmi Kursalova & Starobogatov, 1971) Kursalova V.I., Starobogatov Ya.I. (1971). Mollusks of the genus Corbicula of Antropogene of North and West Asia and Europe. Molluscs, trends, methods and results of their investigation. Fourth meeting on the Investigation of Mollusсs. Abstracts of communications. Moskva: Nauka, 93-96. [in Russian].
page(s): 94 [details]

original description (of Corbicula suifunensis var. finitima Lindholm, 1928) Lindholm, W. A. (1928). Zur kenntnis der Corbicula-Formen (Lamellibranchiata) Südost-Sibiriens. Ezhegodnik Zoologicheskogo Muzeya Akademii Nauk SSSR. 28(4): 550–554.
page(s): 552, pl. 32, fig. 2 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Corbicula fluminea var. extrema Lindholm, 1929) Lindholm, W. A. (1929). Einige neue Mollusken (Pelecypoda und Gastropoda) aus den Gewässern Sudost-Sibiriens. Doklady Akademii nauk SSSR. 12: 302-306. [details]

original description (of Cyrena (Corbicula) transversa E. von Martens, 1877) Martens, E. von. (1877). Uebersicht über die von den Herren Hilgendorf und Dönitz in Japan gesammelten Binnenmollusken. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1877: 97-123., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8796817
page(s): 120 [details]

original description (of Corbicula papyracea var. colorata E. von Martens, 1905) Martens, E. von. (1905). Koreanische Süsswasser-Mollusken. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Supplement Band 8: 23-70, pl. 1-3. Jena., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14201565
page(s): 67, pl. 2, fig. 10 [details]

original description (of Corbicula sadoensis Pilsbry, 1901) Pilsbry, H. A. (1901). New Japanese marine, land and fresh-water Mollusca. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 53: 385-408, pls 19-21., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10089416
page(s): 406 [details]

original description (of Corbicula nipponensis Pilsbry, 1907) Pilsbry, H. A. (1907). On Japanese species of Corbicula. Annotationes Zoologiae Japonenses. 6: 153-160., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44258335
page(s): 159, pl. 7, figs. 3-4 [details]

original description (of Corbicula nipponensis delicata Pilsbry, 1907) Pilsbry, H. A. (1907). On Japanese species of Corbicula. Annotationes Zoologiae Japonenses. 6: 153-160., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44258335
page(s): 160, pl. 7, figs. 11, 12 [details]

original description (of Corbicula biformis Reinhardt, 1877) Reinhardt, O. (1877). Vorlegung einer Anzahl zum Theil neuer japanischer Land- und Süsswassermollusken, zu meist von Prof. Dönitz in Jedo gesammelt. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin. 1877: 67–70., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8796787
page(s): 70 [details]

original description (of Corbicula ovalis Reinhardt, 1878) Reinhardt, O. (1878). Ueber japanische Corbicula-Arten. Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 5: 185-194, pl. 5. Frankfurt am Main., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25214306
page(s): 192, pl. 5, fig. 5 [details]

original description (of Cyrena fuscata var. atrata Reinhardt, 1878) Reinhardt, O. (1878). Ueber japanische Corbicula-Arten. Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 5: 185-194, pl. 5. Frankfurt am Main., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25214306
page(s): 191, pl. 5, fig. 4 [details]

original description (of Cyrena yokohamensis G. B. Sowerby II, 1877) Sowerby, G. B. II. (1876-1877). Monograph of the genus Cyrena. In: Conchologia iconica, or illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 20, pl. 1-19 and unpaginated text. L. A. Reeve, London. [pls. 2-10, 1876, no month date; pls. 1, 11-19, 1877, no month date]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8230337
page(s): pl. 12, fig. 55 [details]

original description (of Corbicula sandaiformis Yokoyama, 1922 †) Yokoyama, M. (1922). Fossils from the Upper Musashino of Kazusa and Shimosa. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo. 44(1): viii + 1-200, pls. 1-17 [7 July 1922]., available online at http://umdb.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp/DKoseibu/pdf/Ref_0465_.pdf
page(s): 165-166, pl. 13, figs 14, 15 [details]

original description (of Corbicula kobelti Yokoyama, 1922 †) Yokoyama, M. (1922). Fossils from the Upper Musashino of Kazusa and Shimosa. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo. 44(1): viii + 1-200, pls. 1-17 [7 July 1922]., available online at http://umdb.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp/DKoseibu/pdf/Ref_0465_.pdf
page(s): 166, pl. 13, figs 18, 19 [details]

basis of record Glaubrecht, M.; Fehér, Z.; Köhler, F. (2007). Inventorizing an invader: Annotated type catalogue of Corbidulidae Gray, 1847 (Bivalivia, Heterodonta, Veneroidea), including Old World limnic Corbicula in the Natural History Museum Berlin. Malacologia. 49(2): 243−272., available online at https://doi.org/10.4002/0076-2997-49.2.243 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Bespalaya, Y. V.; Kropotin, A. V.; Kondakov, A. V.; Aksenova, O. V.; Gofarov, M. Y.; Kim, S. K.; Lee, J. H.; Travina, O. V.; Vikhrev, I. V.; Vinarski, M. V.; Bolotov, I. N. (2022). A taxonomic reassessment of native and invasive species of Corbicula clams (Bivalvia: Cyrenidae) from the Russian Far East and Korea. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac078 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Hatsumi, M. ; Nakamura, M. ; Hosokawa, M. ; Nakao, S. (1995). Phylogeny of Three Corbicula Species and Isozyme Polymorphism in the Corbicula japonica Populations. VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology). 54(3):185 - 193. [details] Available for editors

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additional source Hayashi, Y. (1993). Alanine aminotransferase from gill tissue of the brackish-water bivalve Corbicula japonica (Prime): subcellular localisation and some enzymatic properties. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 170(1): 45-54., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-0981(93)90128-b [details]

additional source Kimura, T.; Soutome, Y.; Sekiguchi, H. (2004). Larval Development of the Brackish Water Clam Corbicula japonica (Bivalvia: Corbiculidae), with Special Reference to Morphological Comparison with Concurrent Tidal Flat Bivalves. Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan). 63 (1-2): 33-48. [details] Available for editors

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additional source Kumazawa, N. ; Morimoto, N. ; Tanigawa, T. ; Tanaka, Y. ; Kasagi, N. ; Kameie, T. ; Funaki, K. ; Iino, A. (1991). Morphology and Activity of Lysosomal Enzymes in Hemocytes of a Brackish-Water Clam, Corbicula japonica. VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology). 50(3): 211-217. [details] Available for editors

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additional source Okamoto, A. ; Arimoto, B. (1986). Chromosomes of Corbicula japonica, C. sandai and C. (Corbiculina) leana (Bivalvia:Corbiculidae). VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology). 45(3):194-202. [details] Available for editors

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