Scallop - Scallop

Japanese: ホタテガイ(帆立貝) - ホタテガイ

A bivalve of the Pectinidae family. It is 20cm tall and 4.5cm wide. The right shell is strongly bulging and yellowish-white, while the left shell is purple-brown and has small scale-like sculptures. When young, it is attached to other objects by its byssus, but when it becomes mature, it opens and closes its shell vigorously to spray seawater and move. It lives on gravel bottoms at depths of about 5-30m from the Noto Peninsula north, from Choshi north to the Sea of Okhotsk, the Korean Peninsula, and Primorsky Krai. Mutsu Bay is known as a production area, and it is also cultivated. It is sometimes collected with a rake net in summer. It is edible. The adductor muscle in particular is enjoyed and canned or dried. The shells are used for oyster seedlings and for shell crafts.
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Japanese:

イタヤガイ科の二枚貝。高さ，長さとも20cm，幅4.5cm。右殻はふくらみが強く，黄白色，左殻は紫褐色で小鱗状彫刻がある。幼貝の時は足糸で他物に付着しているが，成貝は殻を強く開閉して海水を噴射し移動。能登半島以北，銚子以北〜オホーツク海，朝鮮半島，沿海州の水深５〜30mくらいの砂礫(されき)底にすむ。陸奥湾などが産地として知られ，養殖もされている。夏，桁(けた)網などで採取することもある。食用。特に貝柱を賞味し，缶詰や乾物にする。殻はカキ採苗用貝殻や貝細工に利用。
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