#4725 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Toegeknepen korfmossel
Corbicula fluminalis
📍 Berisso, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
📍 נחל נעמן, ישראל
📍 London SW11 4NJ, UK
📍 Berlin, Deutschland
📍 עכו, ישראל
📍 улица Л. И. Яшина, 31
📍 مرداب پل آستانه اشرفیه, 7W6G+J78, Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh, Gilan Province, Iran
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © زين _النجم · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Berisso, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina:© Nacho Pavía · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. נחל נעמן, ישראל:© Theodore · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 6. London SW11 4NJ, UK:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 7. Berlin, Deutschland:© Christian Schütte · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. עכו, ישראל:© Theodore · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 9. улица Л. И. Яшина, 31:© Халиль · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. مرداب پل آستانه اشرفیه, 7W6G+J78, Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh, Gilan Province, Iran:© z_kia_r · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Corbicula fluminalis is a species of freshwater clam, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Corbiculidae. This species is distinct from, but often confused with, the rather similar species Corbicula fluminea . Even though both species are native to Asia, they are both present as introduced species in the USA and Europe, and they are both commonly known as "Asian clams".
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 8 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 238 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Not originally Dutch: it was introduced to the Netherlands.
fact sheet
- Nederlands
- Toegeknepen korfmossel
- scientific name
- Corbicula fluminalis
- class
- Bivalvia
- order
- Venerida
- family
- Cyrenidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- in NL
- introduced
- sightings in NL
- 8
- sightings in Europe
- 74
- sightings worldwide
- 238
- GBIF records in NL
- 757
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Cyrenidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 472901, Wikidata Q2773479, GBIF 5189032, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.