Concholepas concholepas;barnacle rock-shell

Japanese: アワビモドキ（英語表記）Concholepas concholepas;barnacle rock-shell

Mollusca, Gastropoda, Muricidae. Also called Loco shell or Chilean abalone. Shell height 11cm, shell diameter 9cm. The shell is thick, the spiral layer suddenly becomes large and thick, and the body layer and shell opening are both wide, giving it a similar appearance to the abalone, hence the name. However, it is not closely related to the abalone, and it is easy to distinguish it from the abalone because there is no row of water holes on the shell. The shell surface has obvious spiral ribs all over. It is distributed in Chile and Peru in South America, and lives on shallow sea reefs. It is called locos (meaning abalone) in its place of origin, and the soft body is edible and is imported to Japan. The secretion from the subbranchial gland of the soft body turns purple when exposed to sunlight, so the Incas used it, along with the saliciforme, to make a purple dye (→ Shellfish purple).

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Japanese:

軟体動物門腹足綱アクキガイ科。ロコガイあるいはチリアワビとも呼ばれる。殻高 11cm，殻径 9cm。殻は厚く，螺層が急に大きく太くなり，体層，殻口とも広くて，外観がアワビに似るのでこの名がある。しかし，アワビとの類縁関係は薄く，殻上に水孔の列がないので区別は容易である。殻表には全面に螺肋が明らかである。南アメリカのチリ，ペルーに分布し，浅海の岩礁にすむ。産地では locos (アワビの意) と称し，軟体は食用となり，日本にも輸入される。軟体の鰓下腺の分泌液は日光にあたると紫に発色するので，インカではサラレイシとともに紫の染料とした (→貝紫 ) 。

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