Glass cow, scientific name Tolstoy the tortoise, is a kind of seafood and one of Yingkou's specialties. Its meat is edible and its shell can be processed and decorated, and it is common in coastal areas such as Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province in spring and summer.

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calla

Latin scientific name

Vascular lozenges L. 1758

Another name

Glass cow, sea currency, ebony

Distribution area

Coastal areas of Yingkou, Liaoning and Lianyungang, Jiangsu

value

eat

It appears in large quantities in July and August, and most of them are harvested manually after low tide. Meat is edible, and it is picky about food with a pin after being cooked in water, because many individuals are very small and are used as bait for raising shrimp. Shells are beautiful and bright, which are the materials of shell carving technology and can also be processed into decorations and clothing buttons. Folk commonly known as sea money, glass cow, probably in the era when there was no money, people used it as money to get this name.