precious wentlettrap

Japanese: precious wentletrap(英語表記)preciouswentletrap
precious wentlettrap

…In Europe, this shellfish is highly prized among collectors and is sold for hundreds of thousands of yen (converted value) a piece, so it is said that in China, imitations made of hardened glue were made. That is why the English name is precious wentletrap. This species is protoandrogenous, meaning that it is male when small and becomes female when it grows large. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "precious wentletrap" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ヨーロッパではこの貝が収集家の間ではなはだ珍重され1個数十万円(換算値)で売買されたので,中国ではのりを固めた模造品がつくられたという話がある。そのため英名はprecious wentletrapという。この類は雄性先熟で,小さいときは雄で大きくなると雌になる。…

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