Clam

Hi, landechon. Welcome to Project Noah. I belive your clam find is a hard clam or quahog, mercenaria mercenaria.

Hi landechon.. good spotting of this clam. It looks huge. I don't think there is a scientific name of 'clamius' though and the term 'clam' really covers a whole lot of different shelled creatures. Because it's so big what you might have is the Atlantic surf clam which you could read about here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_su...