Meretrix lyrata
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| Lyrate asiatic hard clam | ||||||||||||||
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| Meretrix lyrata (Sowerby, 1851) |
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Cytherea lyrata Sowerby, 1851 |
The lyrate asiatic hard clam (Meretrix lyrata), or simply hard clam (Vietnamese: Nghêu Bến Tre), is a bivalve mollusc distributed along the coasts of Vietnam, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Southern China.
[edit] Culinary use
In Vietnam, hard clams are eaten boiled, steamed or roasted. They are an important export in the eastern and southern parts of Vietnam[1].
[edit] Footnotes
[edit] References
- Reid, Shannon(2003). Meretrix Lyrata (Soweby, 1851).OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database, Academy of Natural Sciences.
- NCBI.
- AGROVOC Thesaurus.
