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Clams and other bivalve mollusks use this catch phase of smooth muscle to keep their shell closed for prolonged periods with little energy usage.
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There are also " touch tanks " in a facility called the Sea Pavilion where visitors are permitted to handle North Atlantic Lobster, Snow Crabs, Rock Crabs, Clams ( also known as Pea Clams ), Sea Urchins, Sea Cucumbers, and other species.
* Clams Never Sang for My Father – The traditional Mayonnaise Lodge rite of passage has Bob Shumway and Frank Fusterman pitted against each other in the clam-wrestling contest – but their sons want no part of it.
Clams and mollusks
Clams and catch
Clams and their
Clams, like most molluscs, also have open circulatory systems, which means that their organs are surrounded by watery blood that contains nutrients and oxygen.
Studies have now shown that by the 1970s four-fifths of the ducks ’ diet was made up of Baltic Clams, which are very common in the Chesapeake Bay: the ducks have been able to adapt to the decline in SAV by changing their diet.
Clams and shell
In the south western coast of India, also known as the Konkan region, Clams are used to cook curries and side dishes, like Tisaryachi Ekshipi, which is clams with one shell on.
Clams and for
Clams have also inspired the phrase " happy as a clam ", short for " happy as a clam at high tide " ( which should be happy because it cannot easily be dug up and eaten ).
Pacific Razor Clams are popular for digging on the beaches near Ninilchik, when the tides are low enough.
In 1974, she received a Special Tony Award for her contribution to Broadway, with Clams on the Half Shell Revue playing at the Minskoff Theater.
* The working titles for " Lines in the Sand " and " Burning My Soul " were " Cat's Tail " and " Carnival of Clams ", respectively.
Having become friends, Vilanch later wrote comedy material for Midler's 1974 Broadway show Clams on the Half Shell and later co-wrote Divine Madness for her in 1980.
Clams and with
* These Are The Clams I'm Breathing, ( audiocassette ), sound poetry, collaboration with Stuart Ross.
Some of the popular foods are Lontong Kupang ( Tiny Clams Soup with Rice Cakes ), Lontong Balap ( Bean Sprouts and Tofu with Rice Cakes ), Sate Klopo ( Coconut Beef Satay ), Semanggi Surabaya ( Marsilea Leaves with Spicy Sweet Potato Sauce ), ' Pecel Lele ( deep fried catfish served with rice and sambal ), Rawon ( Dark Beef Soup ).
In 1946, he opened a full restaurant there, Ivar's Acres of Clams, which with the fish and chip counter survives to this day ( although they have been thoroughly remodeled ).
In 2007, veterans of the Clamshell Alliance marked the 30th anniversary of its founding with the creation of a website called, " To the Village Square: Nukes, Clams and Democracy ", which relates the story of the Clamshell Alliance and why it matters today.
In 2007, veterans of the Clamshell Alliance marked the 30th anniversary of its founding with the creation of a website called, " To the Village Square: Nukes, Clams and Democracy ", which relates the story of the Clamshell Alliance and why it matters today.
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Clams are eaten more in the coastal regions of India, especially in the Konkan, Kerala, Bengal, and Karnataka regions.
The song's meter allows it to be sung to a number of popular tunes including: " Amazing Grace "; " Greensleeves "; " The House of the Rising Sun "; " The Rising of the Moon / Wearing of the Green "; Beethoven's " Ode to Joy " ( in his Ninth Symphony, fourth movement ); " Oh My Darling, Clementine "; " Semper Paratus "; " The Marine Corps Hymn "; " The Yellow Rose of Texas "; " I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing "; " Ghost Riders in the Sky "; " Acres of Clams ", and the theme song from the TV show Gilligan's Island.
other and bivalve
After her death, other species, including the ostracod Cytherelloidea anningi, and two genera, the therapsid reptile genus Anningia, and the bivalve mollusc genus Anningella, were named in her honour.
A number of bivalve molluscs ( other than edible oysters and pearl oysters ) also have common names that include the word " oyster ", usually because they either taste or look like oysters, or because they yield noticeable pearls.
Most of the bivalve larvae that hatch from eggs in the water column feed on diatoms or other phytoplankton.
Certain gastropods use their radula teeth to hunt other gastropods and bivalve molluscs, scraping away the soft parts for ingestion.
Seep communities in the Mediterranean that include endemic chemosynthetic species and associated fauna differ from the other known seep communities in the world at the species level but also by the absence of the large size bivalve genera Calyptogena or Bathymodiolus.
The New Zealand pea crab lives most commonly in green-lipped mussels ( Perna canaliculus ), but can also be found in many other bivalve molluscs including the blue mussel ( Mytilus edulis aoteanus ), the Pacific oyster ( Crassostrea gigas ) and a species of clam ( Chione stutchburyi ).
They tend to feed on branching corals and table-like corals, such as Acropora species, rather than on more rounded corals with less exposed surface area, such as Porites species Avoidance of Porites and some other corals may also be due to resident bivalve molluscs and polychaete worms in the surface of the coral which discourage the starfish.
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