Cyclina sinensis

{{Short description|Species of bivalve}} {{Speciesbox | image = Cyclina sinensis.jpg | image_alt = | image_caption = | genus = Cyclina | species = sinensis | authority = (Gmelin, 1791) | synonyms = {{Species list | Callista sinensis|Gmelin | Cyclina bombycina|Römer | Cyclina pectunculus|Römer | Cyprina tenuistria|Lamarck | Venus (Cyclina) intumescens|Römer | Venus chinensis|Dillwyn | Venus sinensis|Gmelin }} | synonyms_ref = <ref name="WoRMS">{{Cite WoRMS|author=Gmelin|year=1791|title=''Cyclina sinensis'' (Gmelin, 1791)|id=367957|accessdate=6 June 2017}}</ref> }}

'''''Cyclina sinensis''''', commonly known as '''Chinese venus''',<ref name="Guo">{{Cite journal|last1=Guo|first1=Lei|last2=Zhu|first2=Wencheng|last3=Xu|first3=Fuquan|last4=Liu|first4=Ming|last5=Xie|first5=Yu|last6=Zhang|first6=Jingmin|date=2014|title=Optimized ultrasonic-assisted extraction of polysaccharides from Cyclina sinensis and evaluation of antioxidant activities in vitro|journal=CyTA - Journal of Food|volume=12|issue=1|pages=32–39|doi=10.1080/19476337.2013.785982|s2cid=84094588 |issn=1947-6337}}</ref> '''black clam''',<ref name="Guo" /> '''iron clam''',<ref name="Guo" /> and '''Korean cyclina clam''',<ref name="Yoon">{{Cite journal|last=Yoon|first=Jong-Man|date=December 2012|title=Geographic Variations and Genetic Distance of Three Geographic Cyclina Clam (Cyclina sinensis Gmelin) Populations from the Yellow Sea|journal=Development and Reproduction|volume=16|issue=4|pages=315–320|doi=10.12717/dr.2012.16.4.315|pmid=25949106|pmc=4282233|via=NCBI}}</ref> is a clam species in the venus clam family, Veneridae. It mostly lives in the flats on the coast of seas in East Asia, such as the Yellow Sea and the West sea.<ref name="Yoon"/>

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Category:Bivalves of Asia Category:Korean seafood Category:Bivalves described in 1791 Category:Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin Category:Molluscs of the Pacific Ocean Category:Veneridae