{"id":4305,"date":"2015-09-01T14:37:49","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T18:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4305"},"modified":"2015-09-02T14:38:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T18:38:45","slug":"new-giant-clam-species-discovered-off-newfoundland-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/new-giant-clam-species-discovered-off-newfoundland-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"New Giant Clam species discovered off Newfoundland coast<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4306\" style=\"width: 477px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/two_clams_-_20150811_093655.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4306\" class=\"wp-image-4306\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/two_clams_-_20150811_093655-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Jean-Marc Gagnon compares the new species of giant file clam (left) to a regular-sized file clam (right). (Image courtesy of the Canadian Museum of Nature)\" width=\"467\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/two_clams_-_20150811_093655-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/two_clams_-_20150811_093655-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/two_clams_-_20150811_093655.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Jean-Marc Gagnon compares the new species of giant file clam (left) to a regular-sized file clam (right). (<a href=\"http:\/\/nature.ca\/en\/about-us\/museum-news\/news\/press-releases\/canadian-scientists-describe-new-clam-species-depths-canada\">Image courtesy of the Canadian Museum of Nature<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A new species of clam, the giant file clam (Acesta cryptadelphe) was discovered off the coast of Newfoundland. The species was first spotted over 30 years ago, and thanks to DNA analysis it has been confirmed as a new species. The species is so similar to the file clam that the scientists decided to name it \u201ccryptic sibling\u201d. The species is between nine and 15 cm in length, and lives in the deep ocean.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapress.com\/zootaxa\/2015\/f\/zt04007p180.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in<em> Zootaxa <\/em>on <strong>August 31<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Jean-marc Gagnon, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new species of clam, the giant file clam (Acesta cryptadelphe) was discovered off the coast of Newfoundland. The species was first spotted over 30 years ago, and thanks to DNA analysis it has been confirmed as a new species. The species is so similar to the file clam that the scientists decided to name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[170,2151],"class_list":["post-4305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biodiversity","tag-newfoundland-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/two_clams_-_20150811_093655.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-17r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4307,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions\/4307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}