| Lyrate asiatic hard clam | |
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| A whole shell of Meretrix lyrata showing both the outside and the inside | |
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| Live Meretrix lyrata for sale as sea food in a market in Haikou City, Hainan Province, China | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Venerida |
| Superfamily: | Veneroidea |
| Family: | Veneridae |
| Genus: | Meretrix |
| Species: | M. lyrata
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| Binomial name | |
| Meretrix lyrata (Sowerby, 1851)
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| Synonyms | |
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Cytherea lyrata Sowerby, 1851 | |
Meretrix lyrata, the lyrate Asiatic hard clam, also known simply as the hard clam (Vietnamese: Nghêu Bến Tre), is an edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Veneridae, the Venus clams.
This species occurs along the coasts of Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philippines, Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo) and South China.[1]
Right and left valve of the same specimen:
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Right valve -
Left valve
- ^ Idris, Mohd Hanafi; Abu Hena, Mustafa Kamal; Hamli, Hadi; Rajaee, Amy; Al-Asif, Abdulla- (16 December 2022). "The molecular approach reveals the relationship among Venus clams (Meretrix spp.) community in Malaysia". Biotropia. 29 (3): 213–224. doi:10.11598/btb.2022.29.3.1583.