Lyle,

Sounds like you found Corbicula fluminea (Muller, 1774). This is an
introduced bivalve. If you are interested, I would be willing to exchange
2 or 3 from here (PA) with some of yours. Let me know.

> I do not think they were actually clams, they resembled more a
> marine cardidae than anything else. Naturally I picked up a few and
> brought them home. They look similiar to the small bivalves I found in the
> creek a few days before except they are much larger.  ( Maybe the small
> ones are juveniles )

Regards,
Charlie
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Charlie Sturm
Research Associate - Section of Mollusks
Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Assistant Professor - Family Medicine
Fellow-American Academy of Family Practice
Fellow-Academy of Wilderness Medicine

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