Callista chione

Short description: Species of bivalve

Smooth clam

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Bivalvia
Order:  | Venerida
Family:  | Veneridae
Genus:  | Callista
Species:  |

C. chione

Binomial name
Callista chione

(Linnaeus, 1758)

Synonyms

* Cytherea chione
* Meretrix chione

Callista chione, the smooth clam, is a rather large, temperate, marine, bivalve mollusc that inhabits sandy bottoms or with small pebbles in clean waters down to about 200 m from the British Isles to the Mediterranean.[lower-alpha 1] The shell can reach up to about 110 mm Ø, its outer side is smooth and ranges from light greenish creamy colour to medium brown, probably varies to match the background; the interior is white to soft pink. The concentric and radial growth lines are easily seen. Callista chione is edible, different dishes are prepared throughout the Mediterranean in Spain , Italy, France , the Balkan and the Maghreb countries.

It has been found that, as is the case with many bivalve molluscs, which are filter-feeders, (they feed by filtering food particles from the water), that Callista chione, common in fish markets in the Mediterranean, concentrates toxins from dinoflagellates blooms associated with pollution events such as red tides,[lower-alpha 2] sewage water, old sediment dredging, ship ballast water dumping, etc. These toxins cannot be eliminated by the traditional cleansing of shellfish in clean water or by cooking, and can be responsible for complex human health problems: respiratory ailments, skin rashes, even paralysis, etc., such as it is known now to have occurred in New Orleans, associated with the contact or ingestion of severely contaminated water, left by Hurricane Katrina. The commonest of these dangers is known as PSP or paralytic shellfish poisoning.

## Vernacular names

* En: Smooth or brown Venus-clam
* Fr: Vernis, grande palourde
* It: Fasolaro (official name), Cappa liscia, cappa chione, issolone, venerechione
* De: Braune Venusmuschel
* Es: Almejón de sangre, mariposa, almejón brillante, gavesia, concha fina (Málaga España)
* Gl: Ameixón, ameixa macha
* Ca: Petxinot de sang, lluenta
* Gr: Gyalisteri (γυαλιστερή)
* Hr: Lakirka, Rumenka, Klapun

## Notes

1. ↑ Details about the species and its fisheries
2. ↑ See for instance R.A. Vollenweider, A. Rinaldi, R. Viviani and E. Todini. 1996. Assessment of the state of eutrophication in the Mediterranean sea. MAP Technical Reports Series No. 106. UNEP, Athens.

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Edible mollusks

Bivalves|

| Clams|

* Atlantic jackknife
* Atlantic surf
* Geoduck
* Grooved carpet shell
* Hard clam
* Horse
* Mactra stultorum
* Blunt gaper
* Ocean quahog
* Pacific razor
* Venus
* California butterclam
* Senilia senilis
* Smooth clam
* Soft-shell
* Triangle shell
* Tuatua
* Japanese littleneck
* Razor clam
* Pod razor
* Ensis (razor genus)
* Paphies

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Cockles|

* Common
* Blood
* Goolwa
* New Zealand
* Sydney

Mussels|

* Blue
* Mediterranean
* New Zealand green-lipped
* California
* Brown
* Asian/Philippine green
* Date
* Mytilidae (mussel family)

Oysters|

* Eastern
* Olympia
* Southern mud
* Colchester native
* Pacific
* Portuguese
* Windowpane
* Rock
* Sydney rock
* Ostra chilena/Bluff
* Gillardeau oysters
* Crassostrea ("true oyster" genus)

Scallops|

* Atlantic bay
* Great/king
* New Zealand
* Pecten jacobaeus
* Peruvian calico
* Yesso
* Placopecten magellanicus

Gastropods|

| Abalone|

* White
* Red
* Black
* Green
* Pink
* Blacklip
* Greenlip
* Green ormer
* Paua (group of three species)
* South African abalone
* Chilean

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Conches|

* Queen
* Elegant
* Dog

Limpets|

* Black-foot opihi/Hawaiian
* Turtle/talc
* Yellow-foot opihi
* China
* Common European
* Rayed Mediterranean
* Ribbed Mediterranean
* Rustic

Periwinkles|

* Common
* Banded
* Littorina sitkana

Whelks|

* Common
* Kellet's
* Kelletia lischkei
* Knobbed
* Lightning
* Channeled

Other snails|

| Sea|

* Mud-flat
* Korean mud
* Chorus giganteus

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Land|

* Cornu aspersum
* Helix lucorum
* Helix pomatia

Freshwater|

* Apple
* Nerites

Inkfish|

| Cuttlefish|

* Spineless
* Bottletail

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Octopus|

* Common
* Atlantic white-spotted
* Big blue
* Pacific giant
* Southern red
* Mimic
* Amphioctopus fangsiao

Squid|

* New Zealand arrow
* Japanese flying
* Humboldt
* Neon flying

Chitons|

* Chiton magnificus
* Acanthopleura echinata
* Acanthopleura granulata

Related topics|

* Oyster farming
* Land snail farming
* Gastropod anatomy
* Bivalve anatomy

Category

Wikidata ☰ Q1404905 entry

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