APHOTOMARINE

An educational resource dedicated mainly to the photography
and diversity of marine life that can be found in coastal waters
and intertidal areas of Great Britain and Ireland by David Fenwick.

Marine Bivalve Images - Jewel boxes (Superfamily Chamoidea)
Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Imparidentia (Superorder) > Chamoidea (Superfamily) > Chamidae (Family)

The following species have drifted from south-eastern North America on flotsam via the Gulf Stream, usually on Stone crab traps, fishing marker floats or fishing rope and have washed-up in the UK.

Chama
Chama congregata Conrad, 1833 - Corrugated jewel box clam or Corrugated jewelbox (non-native species)

Chama macerophylla Gmelin, 1791 - Leafy jewel box clam or Leafy jewelbox (non-native species)

Chama sarda Reeve, 1847 - Cherry jewel box clam or Cherry jewelbox (non-native species)

Gulf of Mexico / Florida species to confirm ID

Chama species to identify (1) - Jewel box clam (on fishing rope, Gwithian, Cornwall. 14.01.16).

Chama species to identify (2) - Jewel box clam (on fishing rope, Gwithian, Cornwall. 14.01.16).

Chama species to identify (3) - Jewel box clam (on fishing rope, Gwithian, Cornwall. 14.01.16).

Chama species to identify (4) - Jewel box clam (on Stone crab trap buoy, west coast of Ireland. 28.12.15).

European species of Chama, Jewel boxes.

Chama gryphoides Linnaeus, 1758 - A Jewel box clam

Non-native invasive species of Chama, Jewel box, found in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Chama brassica Reeve, 1847 - A Jewel box clam

Chama pacifica Broderip, 1835 - A Jewel box clam

Pacific species of Jewel boxes

Chama lazarus Linnaeus, 1758 - Lazarus jewel box clam

Chama ruderalis Lamarck, 1819 - A Jewel box clam

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Other members of the family Chamidae

Arcinella
Arcinella cornuta Conrad, 1866
- Florida spiny jewelbox (Florida, USA)

Marine Bivalve Images UK Chama species Jewel box clams Superfamily Chamoidea