It is edible and highly nutritious. In mainland China, there are many large stalls using various cooking methods to cook the hairy clam. The meat is tasty and nutritious, with high protein content and a reasonable composition and ratio of amino acid species. Low fat content, high unsaturated fatty acids, easy to be digested and absorbed by the body, and a variety of vitamins and medicinal ingredients.

The hairy clam, also known as the hemp clam, mollusks, bivalve invertebrates. Living in the Inner Bay shallow sea low tide line down to the depth of more than ten meters in the muddy sandy bottom, especially in the freshwater outflow near the estuary, to 4-8 meters mostly. Clams can not be eaten with cold food, beer, wine and other food, skin disease patients are forbidden to eat.

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Morphological features:

Adult shells are 4-5 centimeters long, with a swollen ovoid shell surface, two unequal shells, and a protruding and involute shell apex that is inwardly rolled and biased anteriorly. The shell surface has 30-44 radiating ribs, with square nodules showing on the ribs. Hinges straight, with about 50 teeth. The shell surface is white, covered with brown tomentose epidermis.

China's coastal waters are distributed, small full of small arkshell spawning stops, individuals can be harvested when full of fat. In Liaoning, Shandong and Hebei Province coastal production of the most, the spawning period in July to September. There is also a certain amount in the North Bay.

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