A clam or just a bi valve?

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Is it a clam.
It's about ½inch

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Clams are bivalves along with oysters, mussels, and scallops!
You beat me to it!
Looks like an oyster of some sort. Clams, oysters, scallops, mussels, cockles, etc. are all bivalves, a class of two-shelled mollusks. With a few exceptions like Tridacna giant clams, most are non-photosynthetic filter-feeders that will starve in our reef aquariums, though hitchhiker bivalves can last a very long time. They feed on very small (2-20 μm) particles like phytoplankton, which can be dosed to sustain them and other unique filter-feeders.
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