Corbicula an annotated bibliography 1774 2005

To examine the whether the factor regulating the second meiosis is still active in the androgenetic clam,we observed the development of sperm aster and mitotic spindle and expansion of male pronucleus during meiosis in the eggs. In bisexual Corbicula sandai eggs just after fertilization the comet-like shaped sperm aster disappeared. During meiosis male pronucleus remained condensed. After meiosis completed the male pronucleus started to enlarge and the biaster spindle appeared at the prophase of first mitosis. In androgenetic clam C. fluminea extruded the all maternall chromosomes at M-1 but showed the same pattern of sperm aster and first mitotic spindle formation. The sperm aster once formed and disappeared in the same way. After the period corresponding meiosis second the biastral spindle appeared and male pronucleus start to enlarge.

Odhner, N. H. 1925. Shells from the San Men series. Palaeontologia Sinica (Peking), Series B, 6:1 20.

Oesch, R. D. 1985. Missouri Naiades, A Guide to the Mussels of Missouri. Missouri Department of Conservation (Jefferson City, Missouri). vii + 270 pp.

Ogata, T., S. Sato and M. Kodama. 1989. Paralytic shellfish toxins in bivalves which are not associated with dinoflagellates. Toxicon 27(11):1241-1244.

Paralytic shellfish toxins (PSP toxins) were detected in the freshwater bivalve Corbicula sandai collected from Lake Biwa, Shiga Prefecture, Japan, and marine mussel Septifer virgatus from Mutsu Bay where known causative dinoflagellates and their cysts have never been observed. The toxin profile of C. sandai and S. virgatus was considerably different from suspected causative organisms Aphanizomenon flos-aquae and Protogonyaulax spp., respectively. The causative organism(s) responsible for PSP toxins in these waters is at present unknown.

Ogunyomi, O. and L. V. Hills. 1977. Depositional environments foremost formation, late Cretaceous, Milk River area, Southern Alberta, Canada. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 25(5):929 968.

Paleoenvironmental interpretations based on sedimentological and micropaleontological analyses indicate that the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Foremost Formation is transitional between the underlying marine Pakowki Formation and the overlying nonmarine Oldman Formation. The sediments of the Foremost Formation in the study area were deposited in marginal marine shoreline environments during the northeast withdrawal of the Pakowki sea. The regression was punctuated by numerous incursions of the Pakowki sea, resulting in cyclically alternating lithologies. Five depositional cycles were recognized in the paralic sediments of the Firemost Formation. Each complete cycle generally exhibits the following sequence of environments from the base upward: offshore (beach) transition; barrier island   shoreface and foreshore subenvironments; lagoon, salt marsh; freshwater marsh. However, complete cycles were rarely preserved; most commonly only the offshore subenvironment of the barrier bar and lagoonal deposits are present. The Foremost Formation does not exhibit deltaic or fluvial channel characteristics in the study area. The lower bed contained foraminifera assignable to Haplophragmoides, Ammobaculites and Reophax; Ostrea shells associated with Nucula, Lunatia, Melania and Corbicula; the megaspores Azolla and Azollopsis; and burrows of the decapod Ophiomorpha. The upper bed contained Ophiomorpha burrows, foraminifera, oyster beds and megaspores Costatheca, Spermatites and Balmeisporites.

Ohio River Sanitation Commission. 1966. Eighteenth Year Book. ORSANCO (Cincinnati, Ohio).

Ohmart, R. D. and R. E. Tomlinson. 1977. Foods of western clapper rails. Wilson Bulletin 89(2):332 336.

Corbicula sp. is reported as an item in the diet of Rallus longirostris yumanensis at the confluence of the Gila and Colorado rivers, Arizona, as well as, to a lesser degree, in the Colorado River from Topock Marsh to Imperial Lake.

Ohshima, K., S. Yamaguchi and H. Satoh. 1972. Alluvial shell beds along Kucharo Lake, Hokkaido. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 78(3):129 135.

Kucharo Lake is situated in the northern part of Hokkaido facing the Okhotsk Sea. Along the shores of the lake thick shell beds are developed up to a few meters above the present sea level. The shell beds, which are considered to form an oyster bank, are composed of gigantic shells of oysters which cluster horizontally or in a standing position. Some temperate molluscs are found in the bank. The oyster bank fauna indicates that water temperature at the time of its deposition was as warn as that of the present northern Honshu District (e.g., Matsushima Bay). A thin bed of Corbicula japonica is developed on the oyster bed. They do not mix with each other. The mode of occurrence suggests a change in the ecological environment. The oyster bank (5,610±130 yrs bp) is situated about 2 m above the present sea level. The highest sea level at that time may have been 3 4 m higher than the present sea level.

Ohta, Y. 1965. On the Corbiculidae from the lower Neocomian of Japan. Geological Reports of Hiroshima University 14:165 171.

The Corbiculidae from the lower Neocomian (Mesozoic) of Japan are reexamined, and a new species, Tetoria (Paracorbicula) yoshimoensis is described with a revision of the genus Tetoria.

Ohta, Y. 1970. A review of some Cretaceous corbiculids in North America. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan, New Series 79:291 315.

Twelve species of Corbiculidae of North America preserved in the Henderson Museum of Colorado University were reexamined. Leptesthes and Veloritina are redefined. A new genus, Hendersona with four new combinations is established. A new species, Geloina? rodecki, coexisting with Corbiculidae is recorded. The relationships among these species of Corbiculidae are illustrated.

Ohta, Y. 1975. Two new nonmarine species of Bivalvia from the lower Cretaceous of southwest Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan, New Series 98:95 104.

The results of paleontological studies on the lower Ryoseki fauna of Japan are reported. Included are examinations of the Corbiculacea of the formation.

Ohyama, T., K. Jin, Y. Katoh, Y. Chiba, and K. Inoue. 1986. 1, 3, 5 Trichloro 2 (4 nitrophenoxy) benzene (CNP) in water, sediments, and shellfish of the Ishikari River. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 37(3):344 349.

Since organochlorine compounds are known to be accumulated in benthic animals and 1, 3, 5 trichloro 2 (4 nitrophenoxy) benzene (CNP) is very persistent in aquatic animals, shellfish might be useful as an indicator of environmental contamination by CNP. To understand the correlation between the concentrations in shellfish, water and sediments, one must investigate their temporal changes and the residue half life time of CNP in the environment. For this purpose, CNP free shellfish (Corbicula japonica) was transfered to fixed point in the lower reaches of the Ishikari River, and CNP concentrations in shellfish, water and sediments, before and after CNP application, were examined biweekly from May to August and monthly from September to December 1984. Corbicula japonica can be a biological indicator for CNP contamination.

Ohyama, T., K. Jin, Y. Katoh, Y. Chiba and K. Inoue. 1987. Fate and behavior of herbicides, butachlor, cnp, chlomethoxynil, and simetryne in river water, shellfish, and sediments of the Ishikari River. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 39(4):555-562.

Herbicides applied to rice paddy fields during the May to June planting season flow out with effluent water to contaminate river water and benthic animals in the river. In order to understand the fate and behavior of the herbicides in the aquatic environment of the Ishikari River, the concentrations of four herbicides (butachlor, CNP, chlomethoxynil and simetryne) were examined in the shellfish, river water and river sediments. Samples were taken biweekly from May to August and monthly from September to December 1986. The examination of the shellfish, Corbicula japonica, used as the bioindicator elucidates the amount and range of herbicide contamination in the Ishikari River system. The maximum concentrations of the herbicides except simetryne were observed at the end of May. The maximum levels of CNP, butachlor and chlomethoxynil were 3.0, 0.17 and 0.06 ppm, respectively. This data correlates with the water solubility of the herbicides examined. The herbicide concentrations found in the river-bottom sediments ranged from not detectable to 50 ppb through the sampling period. Unlike the results obtained from shellfish, there is no distinct correlation between the concentration of the herbicides in the sediments and the water solubilities of the compounds.

Oka, N., M. Yamamuro, J. Hiratsuka and H. Satoh. 1999. Habitat selection by wintering tufted ducks with special reference to their digestive organ and to possible segregation between neighboring populations. Ecological Research 14(4):303-315.

Habitat selection by tufted ducks (Aythya fuligula), a diving duck which swallows benthic prey organisms, was studied during winter at two neighboring lagoons (Lakes Nakaumi and Shinji, Honshu, Japan) which differ strongly in their benthic fauna and in their diving duck densities. The ducks fed overwhelmingly on the dominant bivalve found in each of the two lagoons, the mussel Musculista senhousia in Lake Nakaumi and the clam Corbicula japonica in Lake Shinji. In general, however, the ducks probably preferred the mussels to the clams because of: (i) their high (2.9 times) calorific content for their weight; (ii) their high digestibility; (iii) their greater accessibility; and (iv) their shorter handling time. An average tufted duck (850 g) was estimated to require 1.3 kg of mussels or 3.8 kg of clams to meet their daily energy requirements. As a result, the two wintering populations were estimated to consume 4970 t mussels and 4770 t clams during a single wintering season, amounting to some 20% of the standing clam crop. Throughout the winter the average gizzard weight (37 g), and gizzard-body mass ratio (4.2%) of the Lake Nakaumi population were half those of the Lake Shinji population (73 g, 8.1%, respectively), despite their significantly similar nutritive body condition (% body lipid > 12%). The need to maintain a specialized gizzard mass in order to be able to cope with the different prey species results in little opportunity for 'sampling' movements of birds between lakes/prey types and as a result two subpopulations of ducks are indicated to be segregated.

Okamoto, A., and B. Arimoto. 1986. Chromosomes of Corbicula japonica, C. sandai and C. (Corbiculina) leana (Bivalvia: Corbiculidae). Venus, Japanese Journal of Malacology 45(3):194 202.

Chromosomes of Corbicula were investigated. Corbicula japonica has 38 chromosomes. Corbicula sandai has 36 chromosomes. Corbicula (Corbiculina) leana has 54 chromosomes which are classified into 18 groups of three homologs each, suggesting that this species may be a 3n species that was established by a polyploid evolution. From the comparisons of the chromosome numbers and karyotypes in the three species, it is assumed that the ancestral species of the hermaphroditic species, including C. leana, originated from the ancestral species of C. sandai that had originated from the ancestral species of Corbicula japonica.

Okamoto, K. and K. Matsuoka. 2001. Geologic column by boring and fossils of the Oligocene Hitomaru Formation in Yuya-wan area of Yamaguchi Prefecture, Southwest Japan. Science Report of the Toyohashi Museum of Natural History 11:13-21. [Japanese with English summary]

The geologic column of the Oligocene Hitomaru Formation was made from the boring cores, presented by Mr. Sakae Fujimoto, at Igami, Yuya-cho

in 1972. This geologic column will become a standard of the Hitomaru Formation. The symmetrical wave ripples are often observed on the top surface of sandstone bed of the lower to middle horizons of this formation. The plant fossils named the Daibo flora of the Miocene Daijima type were collected from the Daibo and other areas. At the bottom of this formation Corbicula beds can be found usually. On these Corbicula beds the crowded and small (about 1cm length) Corbicula matusitai are distributed. In the Corbicula beds, Bellamya kosasana is rarely found. Corbicula matusitai have no shells generally, but C. matusitai having shells are found on the coast between Tateishi and Tsuo. The beds, containing large (about 2cm length) C. matusitai with rare Macoma ? sp. and "Cultellus" cf. izumoensis, rest upon the small Corbicula beds in Kuraoda area. At a point on the east coast of Tateishi Lamprotula nagahamai and Bellamya kosasana were found on the surface of sandstone block of the Hitomaru Formation. The following, molluscs are described: Bellamya kosasana, Lamprotula nagahamai, "Cultellus" cf. izumoensis, Macoma ? sp., and Corbicula matusitai.

O'Kane, K. D. 1976. A Population Study of the Exotic Bivalve Corbicula manilensis (Philippi, 1841) in Selected Texas Reservoirs. Master of Science Thesis, Texas Christian University (Ft. Worth).

O'Kane, K. D., J. C. Britton and D. R. Coldiron. 1977. New distributional records of Corbicula manilensis (Corbiculidae) in the south central United States. Southwestern Naturalist 22(3):397 400.

Various investigators have accumulated distributional records of Corbicula manilensis in Texas and adjacent States. Distributional records obtained since April 1975 are presented in this note. There have been no prior literature reports of C. manilensis from any of the localities cited. Although C. manilensis has been abundant in several north Texas reservoirs since 1972, the Asiatic clam only recently has become established in the Trinity River. Most specimens recovered have been less than 20 mm in length, suggesting recent introduction. Specimens from North Lake, Dallas County, Texas, were found attached to walls of condenser tubes at the Texas Power and Light Company power plant. All specimens from this locality were less than 15 mm in length, suggesting that if the clams were not attached to condenser tube walls, they should easily pass through the tubes, which have diameters in excess of 30 mm. A considerably worn single valve collected from open Gulf of Mexico beach shell litter from Galveston Beach is recorded. As C. manilensis cannot tolerate salinities in the range of normal sea water, the source of this shell presents a problem. It may have been washed from the Brazos River from a closer local bayou, or transported to the open beach by a human or animal carrier. In any event, careful attention should be paid in the future to the presence of C. manilensis along coastal drainage basins, estuaries, or even open Gulf beaches.

Olazarri, J. 1961. Sobre moluscos en el contenido estomacal de la anguila com'un, Symbranchus marmoratus Bl. Comunicaciones de la Sociedad Malacologica del Uruguay 1(1):9 10. [Spanish]

Olazarri, J. 1966. Los moluscos de agua dulce del Depto. de Colonia, Uruguay. Parte 1. Palecypoda. Comunicaciones de la Sociedad Malacologica del Uruguay 2:15 37. [Spanish]

Distributional notes for Neocorbicula limosa (Maton) and Neocorbicula paranensis are given for Uruguayan waters.

Olazarri, J. 1968. Notas sobre Neocorbicula. Comunicaciones de la Sociedad Malacologica del Uruguay 2:243 284. [Spanish]

Olsson, A. A. 1944. Contributions to the paleontology of northern Peru. VII. The Cretaceous of the Paita region. Bulletins of American Paleontology 28(111):1 146.

Olszewski, M., J. S. Suffern, C. C. Coutant and D. K. Cox. 1977. An overview of waste heat utilization research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. IN: Waste Heat Management and Utilization, ORNL CONF 770516 5. 11 pp.

Studies of the freshwater clam, Corbicula manilensis, are in their initial stages. In field studies associated with heated power plant discharges, maximum growth appears to be at around 24^oC (75^oF). Also, a diurnally oscillating thermal regime has been correlated with higher growth rate. These data are preliminary, however, and should be regarded as such.

Olszewski, M. and J. V. Wilson. 1979. Analysis of Economic and Energy Utilization Aspects for Waste Heat Aquaculture. NTIS Conf. 75 367 1. 15 pp.

A waste heat aquaculture system using extensive culture techniques to produce fin and shellfish is currently under investigation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The system uses nutrients in waste water streams to grow algae and zooplankton which are fed to fish and clams. A tilapia polyculture association and the freshwater clam Corbicula are the animals cultured in the system.

The results of the economic study indicated that fish production costs of $0.55/kg ($0.25/lb) were possible. This cost, however, depends upon the fish production rate and food conversion efficiency and could rise to as much as $1.65/kg ($0.75/lb). Clam production costs were found to be in the neighborhood of $0.37/kg of clam meat ($1.24/bushel).

The energy utilization study results indicated that, when all energy costs are included, fish from the aquaculture system may require only 35% of the net energy now required for fish products from the ocean. However, the energy requirement also depends on system parameters and could be as large as the energy required for ocean caught products. Clams are produced in the aquaculture system using only about 25% of the net energy required by traditional means.

Omori, M. 1973. Pleistocene molluscan fossils from the northern district of Chiba (Narita Formation) 7 (Tako machi District). Q17. IN: Atlas of Japanese Fossils, M. Minato, M. Ohmari, T. Mizuno and I. Obata, Eds. Section 16. Tsukiji Shokau Publishing Co. Ltd. (Tokyo). [Japanese]

Omura, Y., Y. S. Hayashi, O. Matsushima, H. Katayama, and K. Yamada. 1985. Partial purification and characterization of alanine racemase from the brackish water bivalve Corbicula japonica. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 94(1 3):281  290.

Alanine racemase from the foot muscle of the brackish water Corbicula japonica was partially purified by ammonium sulfate fractionation, ion exchange chromatography, and gel filtration. The molecular weight of the enzyme was estimated as 130,000 by gel filtration on Bio Gel A 1.5m. The pH optimum was 9.0   9.5 in the L alanine to D alanine direction and 8.5   9.0 in the D to L direction. The apparent K_m value for L alanine was 110mM and that for D alanine was 38 mM. Some compounds which have been known as inhibitors of bacterial alanine racemase were examined for their inhibitory effects on the bivalve enzyme. Alanine racemase seems to play a significant role in racemization of alanine which is the chief component of the free amino acid pool in relation to intracellular osmoregulation.

Oostingh, C. H. 1931. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Molluskenfauna von Sud Sumatra. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 63:166 255.

Corbicula tumida is discussed from south Sumatra.

Oostingh, C. H. 1935. Die Mollusken des Pliozans von Boemiajoe. Wetenschappelijke Mededelingen No. 26, Dienst Mijnbouw, Nederlandse Indies. pp. 141 170. [Dutch]

Orbigny, A. d'. 1835. Synopsis terrestrium fluviatilum molluscorum in suo per America meridionalem itinere. Magasin de Zoologie 5:1 44.

Orbigny, A. d'. 1846. Voyage dans l'Amerique Meridionale. Vol. V., Part 3. (Paris). xliii + 758 pp.

Oros, D. R., D. Hoover, F. Rodigari, D. Crane and J. Sericano. 2005. Levels and distribution of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in water, surface sediments, and bivalves from the San Francisco Estuary. Environmental Science and Technology 39(1):33-41.

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) were found in water, surface sediments, and bivalve samples that were collected from the San Francisco Estuary in 2002. Capital sigma PBDE concentrations in water samples ranged from 3 to 513 pg/L, with the highest concentrations found in the Lower South Bay (range 103-513 pg/L) region, which receives approximately 26% of the estuary's wastewater treatment plant effluents. The capital sigma PBDEs in sediments ranged from below detection limits to 212 ng/g dry wt, with the highest concentration found at a South Bay station (212 ng/g dry wt), which was up to 3 orders of magnitude higher than other stations. The capital sigma PBDE concentrations ranged from 9 to 64 ng/g dry wt in oysters (Crassostrea gigas), from 13 to 47 ng/g dry wt in mussels (Mytilus califonianus), and from 85 to 106 ng/g dry wt in clams (Corbicula fluminea). Only three PBDE congeners were detected in bivalves, BDE-47, BDE-99, and BDE-100; these are the most bioaccumulative congeners from the commercial Penta-BDE mixture.

Ortmann, C. and M. K. Grieshaber. 2000. Spontaneous metabolic depression in the closed Asian clam, Corbicula fluminea. Annual Meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology, Exeter, United Kingdom, 27-31 March.

Ortmann, C. and M. K. Grieshaber. 2003. Energy metabolism and valve closure behavior in the Asian clam Corbicula fluminea. Journal of Experimental Biology 206(22):4167-4178.

Since its invasion of Europe in the early 1980s, the Asian clam Corbicula fluminea has become very abundant in nearly all western river systems. Today this species is one of the most important biomass producers in the River Rhine. Monitoring the valve movements of C. fluminea over a period of 2 years revealed a circadian rhythm in summer, with extended periods (10-12 h) of valve closure, predominantly in the morning hours. Altogether valve movements were very scarce, frequently fewer than four movements per individual per day. Simultaneous measurements of heat dissipation and oxygen consumption (calorespirometry) revealed an intermittent metabolism in the clam. With the onset of valve closure, C. fluminea reduced its metabolic rate to 10% of the standard metabolic rate (SMR) measured when the valves were open. Nevertheless, this depressed metabolism remained aerobic for several hours, enabling the clam to save energy and substrates compared to the requirements of the tenfold higher SMR. Only during long-lasting periods of valve closure (more than 5-10 h) did the clams become anaerobic and accumulate succinate within their tissues (2 μmol/g fresh mass). Succinate is transported into the mantle cavity fluid, where it reaches concentrations of 4-6 mmol/l. Because this succinate-enriched fluid must pass the gills when the valves open again, we suggest that this anaerobic end product is at least partly reabsorbed, thus reducing the loss of valuable substrates during anaerobiosis. Propionate was also produced, but only during experimental N₂-incubation, under near-anoxic conditions. The intermittent metabolism of C. fluminea is discussed as an adaptation to efficiently exploit the rare food supply, saving substrates by the pronounced metabolic depression during valve closure.

Oshima, K., N. Suzuki, M. Nakamura and K. Sakuramoto. 2004. Shell growth and age determination of the brackish water bivalve Corbicula japonica in Lake Shinji, Japan. Fisheries Science 70(4):601-610.

Otatume, K. 1943. Three species of fossil corbiculids from the Tertiary formation of Karahuto. Journal of the Faculty of Science of Hokkaido Imperial University, Series 4, No. 1, 7:21 28.

Otsuru, M. 1979. Angiostrongylus cantonensis and angiostrongyliasis in Japan. Special Publications of the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. SP44:74 117.

The nematode parasite Angiostrongylus cantonensis is reported in Corbicula fluminea.

Oyama, K. 1943. Uber die Koreanischen Corbicula Arten (Materialien zur monographie der ostasiatischen Corbiculiden 2). Venus, Japanese Journal of Malacology 12(3 4)150 158. [Japanese with German summary] [English translation available from NTIS as ORNL tr 4401]

The systematics and zoogeography of Corbicula fluminea, Corbicula japonica elatior, Corbicula colorata, Corbicula papyracea, Corbicula vicina, Corbicula felnouilliana, and Corbicula suifuensis in Korea are presented.

Oyama, K. 1973. Revision of Matajiro Yokoyama's Type Mollusca of the Kanto Area. Palaeontological Society of Japan. 148 pp.

A lectotype series for Corbicula kobelti Yokoyama, 1922 is selected.

Oyama, K., A. Mizuno and T. Sakamoto. 1960. Illustrated Handbook of Japanese Paleogene Mollusks. (Tokyo). 244 pp.

The lectotype for Corbicula (Batissa) hukayai Otatume is designated on p. 160.