Can you please tell me the scientific and american name for this shell?!
Can you please tell me the scientific and american name for this shell?
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this shell is abundant in the beach resort where i live in the Philippines our local name for it is Lampirong. it's meat tastes like chicken and the shells are being used and exported by the shell craft industry. please help me name this so i will have answers for those tourists who come and visit us. thanks!
Answers:
Scientific Name: Placuna placenta
American Name: Windowpane Oyster
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From Philippine Daily Inquirer
Byline: Ma. Diosa Labiste, Iloilo City
FIRST, the good news: two valuable mollusks, the "kapis" (Placuna placenta) or windowpane oysters....
... Kapis, also locally known as "lampirong," is a bivalve mollusk with translucent shell and small body...