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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 ...
Snail dish from Toledo, Spain Snails are eaten by humans in many areas such as Africa, Southeast Asia and Mediterranean Europe , while in other cultures, snails are seen as a taboo food . In English, edible land snails are commonly called escargot , from the French word for 'snail'. [ 1 ]
[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 ...
[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]
Plebidonax deltoides or Donax deltoides is a small, edible saltwater clam or marine bivalve mollusc, endemic to Australia. It belongs to the family of either the Donacidae, or the related Psammobiidae. It is most widely known as the pipi (also spelled pippi, plural pipis or pippies) in the eastern states of its native Australia.
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]