Corbicula leana
Species of bivalve
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Corbicula leana, known as chamjaecheop (참재첩; "true jaecheop") in Korean and as mashijimi (真蜆; "true shijimi") in Japanese, is a species of freshwater and brackish water clams, distributed in the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese archipelago.[2]
| Corbicula leana | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Venerida |
| Superfamily: | Cyrenoidea |
| Family: | Cyrenidae |
| Genus: | Corbicula |
| Species: | C. leana |
| Binomial name | |
| Corbicula leana Prime, 1867 | |
Three nominal species are synonymized with C. leana: C. arata (Sowerby, 1877), C. poppei Thach & Huber, 2021, and C. noetlingi Martens, 1899.[3] The invasive lineage "form B/Rlc" (COI haplotypes FW1/FW4) corresponds to C. leana.[3]
Culinary use
In Korean cuisine, Corbicula leana are used in a clam soup known as jaecheop-guk.[citation needed]
Jaecheop-sujebi
