Question 2: How many kinds of shellfish are there? ● There are 120,000 species of shellfish in the world, which is the second largest group of organisms in nature after insects
● More than 2,000 species of shellfish live in the South China Sea, adding rich colors to Hainan's sea culture
● From the dinner table to understand shellfish, it is far from being enough
The first time I came to Hainan, I most often ate a kind of fragrant and fresh watermelon sea snail soup. Stayed on the island for a long time, only to realize that this soup is known as the first soup in Hainan. Accumulated food on fire, fatigue and fatigue, then cook a pot of such soup, eat immediately feel a lot of comfort. Many people are from the table to start recognizing this marine life - shellfish. However, only from the table to recognize shellfish, not too shallow. Shellfish are an extremely valuable resource given to mankind by nature. The world's shellfish about 120,000 species, rivers, streams, lakes, oceans, everywhere there are traces of shellfish, it is the natural world creatures in the second largest group after insects. That peculiar and incomparable shape, pleasing colors, wonderful and exquisite pattern, showing the gift of nature's ingenious workmanship, let a person breathtaking. In the long history of the long river, shellfish are all with its unique charm reflects the evolution of human society and process. Types of shellfish The world's shellfish can be roughly divided into terrestrial and aquatic two kinds, of which the aquatic marine shellfish accounted for more than 80% of the total. Marine shellfish are essentially mollusks, characterized by a soft, non-segmented body, consisting of a head, feet, visceral sacs, coat membrane and shell five parts. According to its shell shape and structure, shellfish can be divided into five categories. Gastropods: including snails, conchs and corn snails, etc., the shape of a spiral twist; bivalve: clams, oysters and scallops, etc., they generally have two shells composed of petal-like; cephalopods: including squid, nautilus and octopus, etc.; multi-plate class: this type of shells up to 8 shell plate, forming a picture of the peculiar shape; digging foot class: the top of the shell forward, the membrane surface is curved, a shallow cap. 5 types of categories of shell, gastropods, Bivalves are the most numerous, accounting for more than 80-90% of the total number of existing shellfish. The structure of the shell Typical shells have three layers of structure, the outer layer for the textured layer, known as chitin, is a hard protein; the middle layer is thicker called prismatic layer or shell layer; the inner layer of the leaf-shaped aragonite structure, very rich in color, known as the pearl layer. The outer and middle layers are secreted by the dorsal edge of the outer membrane, while the inner layer is secreted by the entire surface of the outer coat. Some shells do not have these three layers, such as mother-of-pearl shells and squid. The main component of shells is calcium carbonate, which accounts for 95% of the total components, while other components include magnesium, iron, calcium phosphate, calcium sulfate, silicate and other inorganic substances, as well as a small amount of organic substances such as chitin. Shellfish in the Chinese language, shellfish have a variety of names, usually the most used is the shell, conch, oysters, clams, etc.; there are also called the stone turtle, abalone, giant clams, octopus, cuttlefish, manatees, mussels, snails, slugs, bugs, arkshells, razor clams, squid, snail, and so on, so it can be said that a variety of different things. Shellfish, in terms of shape, up to more than 100,000 species, some like a hat or hat, some were gyroscopic, cone-shaped, pagoda-shaped, and some like a disk or sphere. Different shapes of shellfish, the size also varies greatly, rainbow chrysalis snail small to the body only 0.03 mm long, giant clams the largest shell up to 1.8 meters long, weighing up to 500 pounds or so. Shellfish color includes almost all of the natural color, its pattern is a hundred different, amazing. Shellfish in Hainan has a wide variety of vast marine environment of Hainan Island, excellent water quality, stable salinity, water temperature is moderate, for all kinds of mollusks habitat and reproduction provides good living conditions, the formation of Hainan's unique species of rich shellfish resources. According to incomplete statistics, Hainan waters marine shellfish nearly two thousand species, some species are unique. Which can be eaten abalone, horseshoe snails, mussels, arkshells, arkshells, mother-of-pearl, scallops, sun and moon shells, clams and other species. For medicinal purposes, there are abalone shells, salamander operculum (known as mica stone in traditional Chinese medicine), cone snail shells and meat, baby shells, red snail shells and its operculum and meat, lychee snail shells, ark shells, mussel shells, oyster shells, clam shells and meat. Growing in the Hainan waters of the pearl shell, is one of the valuable shellfish, the production of seawater pearls of the main pearl shells have Ma's mother-of-pearl, mother-of-pearl (commonly known as the black butterfly shell), mother-of-pearl (commonly known as the white butterfly shell) and so on. One of the mother-of-pearl is the largest species, shell length of more than 30 centimeters, the shell solid and heavy, gray and yellow-brown radial ribs on the shell surface, the shell has a thick layer of silvery-white pearls, often inhabiting the depth of about 20 meters in the sea area, is endemic to the varieties of Hainan Island. Available for the production of decorations, handicrafts shellfish carving ornamental pearl shells and shells, glow-in-the-dark snail shells, nautilus snails, tiger babies, conch, crown snail, hedge phoenix snail, ...... >>
Question 3: what are the shellfish Shellfish seafood refers to marine organisms shellfish, can be for human consumption and flavorful shellfish. Belongs to the mollusc phylum in the valve gill class (or bivalve class). Because the general body is cloaked with 1~2 pieces of shell, so the name. Common oysters, oysters, mussels, clams, razor clams, etc. are in this category. There are about 11,000 extant species
Shellfish are mollusks with shells. In the scientific classification, it includes bivalve (bivalve), most of the gastropods (snails), polyplatyhelminthes (stone turtles), and diggeropods (horned shells), etc. The sea cows, cephalopods and other species of mollusks are also included. Although manatees and cephalopods (squid, octopus) are also mollusks, their shells are degraded and they are not considered shellfish.
Edible taboos
1, shellfish belong to the cold category, the traditional harvest season is the fall or autumn and winter, the opposite season, less food, otherwise it is not good for the body.
2, shellfish seafood within the more sand and stone, before making food, you can first put in the water, put a little sesame oil, let it spit out a lot of sand and stone, each time for 2 hours, repeated 2-3 times, or else easy to get stone disease.
3, shellfish seafood should not be consumed at the same time with beer, easy to get gout, diarrhea, you can drink three whip wine, strong wine, yellow wine and so on.
4, consumption of shellfish seafood, serious discomfort, should immediately seek medical attention, hydration; minor discomfort, such as diarrhea, you can take
fast anti-diarrhea medicine (fungus); gout symptoms, you can eat radish, 1-3 days to see the effect
Question 4: What does it mean to have a variety of life type of shellfish Shellfish's life type is the way of life, with: fixation, attachment, Burrowing, creeping, swimming (planktonic, burrowing, parasitic, **** born) and other types.
Question 5: What is the meaning of the shell Legend has it that, at night, when you make a wish to the stars, and the stars return with a twinkle, it means the wish will come true; Legend has it that, at the full moon in the colorful lake lit twelve candles, and then face the center of the lake to pray, you can see the other half of the face; Legend has it that, the shell is like the people who were originally one, but was forced to be separated, and a pair of purple shell rings, the person will live a happy and complete life. The legend says that the purple shells symbolize eternal and unchanging love If you get the blessing of the purple shells, you will be with the person you love for life regardless of the cycle of reincarnation of the world forever together
Question 6: What shellfish is delicious five shellfish seafood delicious recommendations
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As shellfish, biologically categorized as mollusks. This is very much in line with the way of thinking of people who love food, because, what is the shell of the shell, how hard it is, what does it look like the only use for foodies is - respectively, it is what species of shells, and as a symbol of delicious or not labeled in the seafood pool. Therefore, it is still necessary to slightly popularize the most common edible shellfish seafood knowledge.
Sea rainbow
Sea rainbow
Sea rainbow, although there is a rainbow in the name, at a glance, it is a pair of dark shells, especially domestic sea rainbow, it is black through. Usually the name of the seafood are very image, you will not complain that the fishermen spent the eyes, only to give such a name to the sea rainbow this sea thing with a name that does not live up to its name. If you put the Australian sea rainbow and domestic sea rainbow together to make a comparison, you will surely understand. Most of the time, we have misunderstandings about things because there are still miscommunication channels. If you look closely at the shell of the Australian sea rainbow, you will find that it is really "rainbow" color, although the color difference is very small, but there are different categories of black, gray, silver, etc. on its shell, and with a mother-of-pearl-like variegated luster.
July every year is a good time to eat the sea rainbow, of course, now the food chain has realized the global integration, always eat anytime fat with yellow, and a lot of seafood, especially crabs, the sea rainbow must be eaten fresh, otherwise its detoxification effect is comparable to weight loss tea.
Mango shells
Mango shells
We asked a lot of Beijing, seafood seafood big brother, Google, Baidu also do not know, this mango shells in the end what is a thing, perhaps from the beginning of its name is simply from its image, although we can not give you an academic all over the world to recognize the Latin name, but at least we let you! know that this shellfish with its reddish shell is called mango shell by most restaurants in Beijing. There is a red oil clam that looks quite similar to it, but doesn't have the same vibrant shell color, and some people call the red oil clam the mango shell, which really isn't that different in terms of taste.
Abalone
Abalone
Abalone meat is delicious, is a valuable seafood. It is not a fish, but a monocrustal mollusk that crawls and attaches itself to rocks below the low-tide line in shallow seas. In the abalone's body outside, covered with a thick limestone shell, which is a right spiral shell, ear-shaped, its Latin name can be called "sea ear" according to the literal translation, is because of the shape of its shell like the ear's sake. The abalone's foot is particularly fat, divided into two parts. The upper foot has many tentacles and small mounds, which are used to feel the outside world; the lower foot is oval when it is stretched out, and the ventral surface is flat, which is suitable for attaching and crawling. We eat abalone is mainly eat its foot muscles. Abalone live in the fast-flowing, seaweed-rich rocky reefs, in the coastal islands or the coast outward protruding rocky corners are their favorite place to live. Abalone more climbing creep in the crevice of the rocky reefs or rock holes, their distribution of the depth of water with the species and different, such as the northern part of China's pan big abalone is generally distributed in more than 10 meters of the depth of the water, in order to avoid the cold in the winter to the depth of the depth of movement, the depth of up to 30 meters. In spring, it moves up slowly, and some of them can live several meters below the tide line. Abalone like to eat brown algae or red algae, like the disk big abalone very like to eat wakame, young kelp and sargassum and so on. The abalone's diet varies with the seasons, and it generally eats a lot in the season when the water temperature is higher; it is less active and eats less in winter. There are many kinds of abalone, and their distribution is also very wide, and there are abalone distribution along the coast of China. In the north, to Dalian and Changshan Island produce more, the production are disk abalone, their individual larger, ovoid. In the South China Sea produced miscellaneous abalone and ear abalone, miscellaneous abalone and disk abalone shape is similar, but the individual smaller; ear abalone body shape is larger, the shell is more like an ear, it is the most fertile meat foot, usually shell can not be completely wrapped in it.
The ancient name of abalone is Haliotis gigantea, and there are mirror fish, nine holes snail, Mingmu fish and other aliases, abalone since ancient times in successive generations of Chinese cuisine occupies the position of the only one, and can be enough to taste the abalone this delicacy is also the stream of those who are not the official of the wealthy noblemen of the Imperial Palace. China's taste of abalone has a far-reaching history, the "Records of the Grand Historian" said abalone as a rare delicacy; "Han Book Wang Mang biography" records: Wang Mang things will be defeated, all not down to eat, only drink wine, eat abalone liver: Su Dongpo tasted abalone in the "carp line" in the "carp line" in the praise of the catering husband good governance recommended Hall of China, sit down to carve the maggots born of the glory of the light. Meat Chi stone ear is not enough to count, vinegar pen ...... >>
Question 7: What does "seafood" mean? Seafood (Seafood), also known as seafood, refers to the use of marine animals as a cuisine, including fish, shrimp, shellfish and so on. Although seaweed and other marine organisms are often used as food, seafood is mainly a dish made from animals. In a narrow sense, only fresh seafood can be called seafood, seafood classification: live seafood, frozen seafood.
Seafood that has been dried and dehydrated is called seafood.
Chinese Name: Seafood
Foreign Name: Seafood
Also known as: seafood
Refers to: the use of marine animals made of food
Pinyin: hǎi xiān
Meaning: edible, fresh, marine life
Question 8: What are the benefits of eating shellfish Shellfish: mainly contains protein, low cholesterol, various kinds of cholesterol and other nutrients. Containing protein, low cholesterol, a variety of trace elements, compared with meat on human nutrition and health is more superior o, but everything should be in moderation Protein eat too much will get fat Human blood cholesterol if too high will cause atherosclerosis and atherosclerosis is coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction and stroke of the main risk factors Moderate eat it Wish you good health