Cape Cod Quahog

At Stage Harbor in Chatham, Cape Cod with Morris Island in the background.

 

© Christopher Seufert Photography

 

The hard clam or quahog, Mercenaria mercenaria is a bivalve mollusc native to the eastern shores of North America, from Prince Edward Island to the Yucatán Peninsula. Older sources may give it the systematic name Venus mercenaria. It is one of many unrelated bivalves referred to as clams.

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