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This is a partial list of edible molluscs. Molluscs are a large phylum of invertebrate animals, many of which have shells . 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 ...
The Atlantic jackknife clam, Ensis leei, [1] also known as the bamboo clam, American jackknife clam or razor clam, is a large edible marine bivalve mollusc found on the North American Atlantic coast, from Canada to South Carolina. The species was also introduced to Europe at the end of the 70's and is already extremely abundant there in ...
The flour method is a homemade resource to clean the animal's digestive tract. [24] Formerly in Spain, snails were hung from mesh bags from which they could not escape. Snail chef Morell i Bitrià (1999) recommends not giving them anything to eat for at least eight days (ideally ten or twelve) and then washing them well. Snails that die during ...
[1] [2] It is the type genus of the family Helicidae, and one of the animal genera described by Carl Linnaeus [3] at the dawn of the zoological nomenclature. Members of the genus first appeared in the fossil record during the Miocene. [4] Well-known species include Helix pomatia (Roman snail, Burgundy snail, or edible snail) and Helix lucorum ...
SEM image of lateral view of a love dart of the land snail Monachoides vicinus.The scale bar is 500 μm (0.5 mm). Drawing showing a side view of the love dart of the edible snail Helix pomatia. 1 = flared base of the dart. 2 = position of the inner cavity. 3 = longitudinal flanges or vanes. 4 = sharp tip or blade of the dart A love dart from Cornu aspersum (garden snail) on a ruler for ...
[8] The larvae are lecithotrophic. The adults are herbivorous and feed with their rhipidoglossan radula on macroalgae, preferring red or brown algae. Sizes vary from 20 mm (25 ⁄ 32 in) (Haliotis pulcherrima) to 200 mm (7 + 7 ⁄ 8 in), while Haliotis rufescens is the largest of the genus at 30 cm (12 in). [9]
The maximum height of the shell is 10 cm (4 in) and the maximum width is 6 cm (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in). The animal emits a thin and copious slime. [3] This species is very variable in size, and also in its form, which is more or less inflated. In many cases the oblique folds are not apparent, and sometimes the transverse striae have wholly disappeared.
Otala lactea, known as the milk snail or Spanish snail, is a large, edible [3] species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk, in the family Helicidae, the typical snails. [4] Archaeological recovery at the Ancient Roman site of Volubilis, in Morocco, illustrates prehistoric exploitation of O. lactea by humans. [5]