Species of bivalve shellfish for which growth simulated by ShellSIM has been shown
to match that recorded during full production cycles in the natural environment are as follows:
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus, 1758 [Mytilidae]
Common names: En - Blue mussel, Fr - Moule commune, Es - Mejillón común, Ch - 貽貝
Wide ranging tolerance to environmental conditions enables widespread culture of the blue mussel
throughout Europe, the United States of America and Canada, including countries outside its native
range (i.e. China), with more than 200,000 tonnes harvested per annum worldwide
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Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck, 1819 [Mytilidae]
Common Names: En - Mediterranean mussel, Fr - Moule méditerranéenne,
Es - Mejillón mediterráneo, Ch -地中海貽貝
Cultured throughout the Mediterranean Sea, the Mediterranean mussel is also produced in the
Russian Federation, Ukraine, South Africa and China, with more than 800,000 tonnes harvested
per annum worldwide
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Perna canaliculus Gmelin, 1791 [Mytilidae]
Common Names: En - New Zealand mussel, Fr - Moule de Nouvelle-Zélande,
Es - Mejillón de Nueva Zelandia, Ch - 新西蘭貽貝
All production of the New Zealand mussel, also referred to as the Greenshell® Mussel, takes
place in New Zealand, where more than 100,000 tonnes are harvested per annum, some being
marketed as an anti-inflammatory remedy, with associated export earnings totalling more than
USD 150 million
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Modiolus modiolus Linnaeus, 1758 [Mytilidae]
Common Names: En - Horse mussel, Fr - Moule cheval,
Es - Mejillón de caballo, Ch - 馬貽貝
Whilst slow growing, Horse mussel beds provide habitats for rich assemblages of species
in depths to 110 m from the Black Sea, Mauritania and West Africa to Mediterranean and
British Isles, where beds may be protected under the European Union’s Habitats Directive
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Crassostrea gigas Thunberg, 1793 [Ostreidae]
Common names: En - Pacific cupped oyster, Fr - Huître creuse du Pacifique,
Es - Ostión japonés, Ch - 太平洋牡蠣
Given rapid growth in a broad range of environments, the Pacific cupped oyster has become
the oyster of choice for cultivation in many regions, with more than 4,000,000 tonnes harvested per annum worldwide
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Crassostrea virginica Gmelin, 1791 [Ostreidae]
Common names: En - American cupped oyster, Fr - Huître creuse américaine,
Es - Ostión virgínico, Ch - 美國牡蠣
American cupped oysters are the most economically important group of molluscs in U.S.
capture fisheries, with more than 100,000 tonnes harvested per annum worldwide
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Ostrea edulis Linnaeus, 1758 [Ostreidae]
Common Names: En - European flat oyster, Fr - Huître plate européenne,
Es - Ostra europea, Ch - 歐洲平牡蠣
The European flat oyster is native to the western European coast from Norway to Morocco,
including the Mediterranean Basin, and has been deliberately introduced to eastern North America,
with about 7,000 tonnes harvested per annum worldwide
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Crassostrea plicatula [Ostreidae]
Common names: En – Zhe oyster or Chinese oyster, Fr - Huîtres chinois,
Es - Ostras china, Ch - 哲牡蠣
The Zhe oyster is widely distributed in coastal areas of China, where they are cultured
primarily in Fujian Province and other parts of the southern coast, harvesting more than
3,000,000 tonnes per annum
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Ruditapes philippinarum Adams & Reeve, 1850 [Veneridae]
Common Names: En - Japanese carpet shell, small-neck clam, Manila clam Fr - Palourde japonaise,
Es – Almeja Japonesa, Ch - 日本蛤仔
The Japanese carpet shell is native to Japan, but now with broad commercial significance
following transfer throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans from Pakistan to the Russian
Federation, including along the North American Pacific coast, the Hawaiian Isles and the
European coastline from United Kingdom to the Mediterranean Basin, with more than 3,000,000
tonnes worth US$ 3,185,467,000 harvested worldwide in 2008
(Fisheries Global Information System. Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations. ftp://ftp.fao.org/fi/stat/summary/a-6.pdf )
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Ruditapes decussatus Linnaeus, 1758 [Veneridae]
Common Names: En - Grooved carpet shell, Fr - Palourde croisée d'Europe,
Es - Almeja fina, Ch - 溝槽蛤仔
The grooved carpet shell is cultured from the Atlantic coast of France, Spain, Portugal and
in the Mediterranean basin, with up to about 5000 tonnes harvested per annum worldwide
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Tegillarca (= Anadara) granosa Linnaeus, 1758 [Arcidae]
Common Names: En – Blood clam, granular mud ark, Fr - Palourde sang,
Es - Almeja sangre, Ch- 蚶
The blood clam is widespread in the Indo-West Pacific, from East Africa to Polynesia, including
north to Japan and south to northern and eastern Australia, with , with more than 450,000 tonnes
worth US$ 419,587,000 harvested worldwide in 2008
(Fisheries Global Information System. Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations. ftp://ftp.fao.org/fi/stat/summary/a-6.pdf )
More information on this species from the OBIS Indo-Pacfici Molluscan database
More information on this species from the FAO website
Sinonovacula constricta Lamarck, 1818 [Solecurtidae]
Common Names: En – Chinese razor clam, Agemaki clam, Fr - Chinois couteaux,
Es navaja China , Ch- 成蛤
The Chinese razor or Agemaki clam is distributed along the coastline of China and Japan. In China alone,
more than 700,000 tonnes worth US$667,876,000 were harvested in 2008
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Chlamys farreri Jones & Preston, 1904 [Pectinidae]
Common names: En - Chinese scallop, Fr - pétoncles Chinois,
Es concha de peregrino Chino, Ch - 櫛孔扇貝
The Chinese or Zhikong scallop is native to China, Korea and Japan. There are current
mortality problems, but when worldwide harvest has exceeded 1,000,000 tonnes per annum
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Pecten maximus Linnaeus, 1758 [Pectinidae]
Common names: En - Great Atlantic scallop, Fr - Coquille St-Jacques Atlantique,
Es – Vieira (=Concha de Santiago), Ch -大西洋大扇貝
The Great Atlantic scallop is distributed in Eastern Atlantic Ocean from Norway to Spain,
including the Azores, Madeira and Canaries, where more than 50,000 tonnes are harvested per annum
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