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Clams in the culinary sense do not live attached to a substrate (whereas oysters and mussels do) and do not live near the bottom (whereas scallops do). In culinary usage, clams are commonly eaten marine bivalves, as in clam digging and the resulting soup, clam chowder. Many edible clams such as palourde clams are ovoid or triangular; [3 ...
A sea otter at Moss Landing, California, eating what appear to be Mya arenaria. As well as being eaten by humans, the soft-shelled clam is relished by sea otters in the eastern Pacific Ocean, [citation needed] where the clam is an invasive species. In New England the soft-shell clam is preyed heavily upon by northern moon snails and invasive ...
The Pacific razor clam, Siliqua patula, is a large mollusc native to North America.The Pacific Razor clam is a marine bivalve belonging to the family Pharidae. [4] Pacific razor clams are sexually dimorphic, but as with all clams, there is no way to tell the difference between sexes without dissecting them or evaluating them under a microscope. [5]
The shell of the clam ranges from 15 centimeters (6 in) to over 20 centimeters (8 in) in length, but the extremely long siphons make the clam itself much longer than this: the "shaft" or siphons alone can be 1 meter (3 ft 3 in) in length. The geoduck is the largest burrowing clam in the world. [3]
Edible molluscs are harvested from saltwater, freshwater, and the land, and include numerous members of the classes Gastropoda (snails), Bivalvia (clams, scallops, oysters etc.), Cephalopoda (octopus and squid), and Polyplacophora (chitons).
Mantle of giant clam with light-sensitive spots, which detect danger and cause the clam to close. Tridacna gigas, the giant clam, is the best-known species of the giant clam genus Tridacna. Giant clams are the largest living bivalve molluscs. Several other species of "giant clam" in the genus Tridacna are often misidentified as Tridacna gigas.
Shellfish. This category includes oysters, clams, mussels, lobsters, shrimp and the like. “Shellfish can harbor Vibrio bacteria or viruses like norovirus, especially when raw or undercooked ...
Younger clams have a faster growth rate than older clams. [5] They can reach sizes of up to 8.9 inches (23 cm), though sizes larger than 7.9 inches (20 cm) are rare. [4] These clams use their siphons to pull in and then filter fine particles of organic matter and plankton from the surrounding seawater. Like almost all clams, they are filter ...