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The Pacific geoduck (/ ˈ ɡ uː i ˌ d ʌ k / GOO-ee-duk; Panopea generosa) is a species of very large saltwater clam in the family Hiatellidae. [1] [2] The common name is derived from the Lushootseed name, gʷidəq. The geoduck is native to the coastal waters of the eastern North Pacific Ocean from Alaska to Baja California. [2]
Geoduck aquaculture or geoduck farming is the practice of cultivating geoducks (specifically the Pacific geoduck, Panopea generosa) for human consumption. The geoduck is a large edible saltwater clam , a marine bivalve mollusk , that is native to the Pacific Northwest .
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Panopea zelandica, commonly known as the deepwater clam or New Zealand geoduck, is a large species of marine bivalve mollusc in the Panopea (geoduck) genus of the family Hiatellidae. [1] It is also sometimes called a king clam , or a gaper – in reference to the shell not being closed at either end.
Panopea abbreviata (Valenciennes, 1839) – southern geoduck; Panopea australis (G.B. Sowerby I, 1833) Panopea bitruncata (Conrad, 1872) Panopea generosa Gould, 1850 – Pacific geoduck; Panopea globosa Dall, 1898 – Cortes geoduck; Panopea glycimeris (Born, 1778) Panopea japonica Adams, 1850 – Japanese geoduck [2] Panopea smithae Powell, 1950
A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.
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The map carved on the globe is an extremely close, [1] if not identical, [2] match to the Hunt–Lenox Globe, a copper globe reliably dated to about 1510. The owner [ 2 ] of the Ostrich Egg Globe, Stefaan Missinne, claims that it was made in the early 16th century and is therefore the first globe ever to depict the New World .