Clams, like most molluscs, also have open circulatory systems, which means that their organs are surrounded by watery blood that contains nutrients and oxygen.

Clams are eaten more in the coastal regions of India, especially in the Konkan, Kerala, Bengal, and Karnataka regions.

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 or shellfish are locally called chipchip and local fishermen sell those in rural markets.

Pacific Razor Clams are popular for digging on the beaches near Ninilchik, when the tides are low enough.

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 are most commonly the motifs for this type of netsuke.

Clams in themselves are low in cholesterol and fat, but fried clams absorb cooking fat.

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 ).

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.

" He expanded the fine dining and fish and chips restaurants into a regional chain. Today, there are 24 Ivar's fast casual Seafood Bars, three Fish Bars, and three full-service restaurants: Ivar's Acres of Clams, Ivar's Salmon House and Ivar's Mukilteo Landing.

( Clams are also the preferred unit of currency in B. C.

Finfish, Green crabs, Clams and Prawns are the most commercially exploited fishes of the lagoon.

Clams are commercially harvested off the mouth of the creek, and various marine fish can be caught from a fishing pier at the mouth of the creek.

Shrimp, Clams and Oysters are an important element of the food chain in Mosquito Lagoon.

Clams, crabs, and other marine life may add interest at coastal areas.

The surrounding reefs have a rich marine fauna, including Giant Clams.

Clams and other bivalve mollusks use this catch phase of smooth muscle to keep their shell closed for prolonged periods with little energy usage.

Clams feed on plankton by filter feeding.

Clams filter feed by drawing in water containing food using an incurrent siphon.

Clams can be eaten raw, steamed, boiled, baked or fried.

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.

** More-Bad Clams Productions, Swell Productions-Mark Osborne and Steven B. Kalafer

Clams, quahogs, and oysters were harvested by Wannamoisett residents and sold in Providence.

One was by a Spike Jones influenced group called The Clams.

* These Are The Clams I'm Breathing, ( audiocassette ), sound poetry, collaboration with Stuart Ross.

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.

For many years, Wes Parker's Fried Clams was a landmark off state Route 128.

Clams with bellies have the clam's gastrointestinal tract left intact and impart a fuller flavor.

Clams and mussels also live in Raritan Bay.

Almonds are sold shelled ( i. e., after the shells are removed ), or unshelled ( i. e., with the shells still attached ).

Blanched almonds are shelled almonds that have been treated with hot water to soften the seedcoat, which is then removed to reveal the white embryo.

Unfortunately not a whole lot of very old buildings are left in town: first the Americans carpet-bombed it in February 1944, later the Germans shelled it for about five months after the liberation in September 1944, and finally there were a lot of very rigorous city planners in the 1950s, 60's and 70's who finished what the Americans and Germans started.

Fossilized shells of two kinds of invertebrates are widely used to identify Permian strata and correlate them between sites: fusulinids, a kind of shelled amoeba-like protist that is one of the foraminiferans, and ammonoids, shelled cephalopods that are distant relatives of the modern nautilus.

However, almost all species of shelled mollusks are capable of producing pearls ( formally referred to as " calcareous concretions " by some sources ) of lesser shine or less spherical shape.

Almost any shelled mollusk can, by natural processes, produce some kind of " pearl " when an irritating microscopic object becomes trapped within the mollusk's mantle folds, but the great majority of these " pearls " are not valued as gemstones.

* June 8 – WWII: Attack on Sydney Harbour: The Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle are shelled by Japanese submarines.

The various taxa of land and sea gastropods with slug morphology occur within numerous higher taxonomic groups of shelled species ; such independent slug taxa are not in general closely related to one another.

The immature peas ( and in snow peas the tender pod as well ) are used as a vegetable, fresh, frozen or canned ; varieties of the species typically called field peas are grown to produce dry peas like the split pea shelled from the matured pod.

These molluscs are more closely related to living coleoids ( i. e. octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish ) than they are to shelled nautiloids such as the living Nautilus species.

In the tropical and sub-tropical areas of the planet, there are far more species of colorful, large, shallow water shelled marine mollusks than there are in the temperate zones and the regions closer to the poles.

Although there are a number of species of shelled mollusks that are quite large, there are vast numbers of extremely small species too, see micromollusks.

The largest group of shelled cephalopods, the ammonites, are extinct, but their shells are very common in certain areas as fossils.

* Carrier shells in the family Xenophoridae are marine shelled gastropods, fairly large sea snails.

The shells of the various groups of shelled mollusks, including those of snails, clams, tusk shells, chitons and nautilus, are also exoskeletons.