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  2. Human interactions with molluscs - Wikipedia

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    The "seed" method uses grains of ground shell from freshwater mussels, and overharvesting for this purpose has endangered several freshwater mussel species in the southeastern United States. [5] The pearl industry is so important in some areas, significant sums of money are spent on monitoring the health of farmed molluscs. [6]

  3. List of edible molluscs - Wikipedia

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    Note that the common names of edible bivalves can be misleading, in that not all species known as "cockles" "oysters", "mussels", etc., are closely related. Ark clams , including: Blood cockle; Senilia senilis; Many species of true mussels, family Mytilidae, including: Blue mussels. Blue mussel; California mussel; Mediterranean mussel; Mytilus ...

  4. Seafood - Wikipedia

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    Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans, prominently including fish and shellfish.Shellfish include various species of molluscs (e.g., bivalve molluscs such as clams, oysters, and mussels, and cephalopods such as octopus and squid), crustaceans (e.g. shrimp, crabs, and lobster), and echinoderms (e.g. sea cucumbers and sea urchins).

  5. Mussel - Wikipedia

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    Humans have used mussels as food for thousands of years. About 17 species are edible, of which the most commonly eaten are Mytilus edulis, M. galloprovincialis, M. trossulus and Perna canaliculus. [30] Although freshwater mussels are edible, today they are widely considered unpalatable and are rarely consumed.

  6. Neurotoxic shellfish poisoning - Wikipedia

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    When the shellfish are then eaten by humans, high doses of the toxins may be consumed. Humans are typically exposed to these potent natural toxins via filter-feeding mollusks (i.e., shellfish), because shellfish accumulate biotoxins in their flesh due to the way that they feed. [ 1 ]

  7. Can you harvest mussels in RI? Here's why it's not common. - AOL

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    “Lots of organisms, besides people, like to eat blue mussels,” he wrote. Ribbed mussels: Abundant but less desirable. Ribbed mussels, by contrast, are extremely easy to find in marshy areas.

  8. Oysters And Mussels Contains 'Disturbingly' High Levels Of ...

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    If your summer diet includes eating all the oysters hours and mussels you can find, you might want to rethink that. According to new research published the Journal of Hazardous Materials, "high ...

  9. Molluscivore - Wikipedia

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    A molluscivore is a carnivorous animal that specialises in feeding on molluscs such as gastropods, bivalves, brachiopods and cephalopods.Known molluscivores include numerous predatory (and often cannibalistic) molluscs, (e.g.octopuses, murexes, decollate snails and oyster drills), arthropods such as crabs and firefly larvae, and, vertebrates such as fish, birds and mammals. [1]