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Gaper clams have a long oblong show, experienced clammers can easily identify these clams. A quick touch of the show will reveal if your guess is correct. If it's a clam, its neck will retract.
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Horse clam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Description: 20 cm long, usually one and a half times as long as it is high; chalky white except near the periostracum, unless the shells are colored black from iron sulfate in the sediment; ... You can find the commensal Pea Crab, Pinnixa littoralis, in the mantle cavity of this clam , we found a few ourselves...
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[Archive] Gaper Clam Cleaning (Pics) Tech Tips and Keepers ... View Full Version : Gaper Clam Cleaning (Pics) ... www.ifish.net > Ifish Fishing and Hunting > Tech Tips and Keepers > Gaper Clam Cleaning (Pics)
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Gaper clams have very large siphons. Having such large siphons enable gapers to live very deep in the underlying layers of sand, thereby avoiding many clam predators. Gaper shells have evolved to not close completely, thus leaving a gape to accommodate the siphon.
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VIDEO: Clam Digging in Coos Bay Oregon for Gapper Clams ... Tags: Clamming in Oregon, Coos Bay, gaper clams, tutorial ... Clam Digging Info...
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Intertidal Organisms EZ-ID GUIDES ... MORE on this species ; ... photo of gaper clam...
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I can see why the particular clam I'm writing about would be called a Gaper -- the two equal valves or calcareous shells do gape at the rear end -- an accommodation that permits some retraction of their long siphons.
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Discussion The Gaper Clam lives in a burrow as much as 36" (1 m) deep, and extends its long neck up to the surface of the bottom. Tufts of algae and sedentary invertebrates grow on the hard siphonal plates at either side of the neck.
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Washington clams, Saxidomus nuttallii, do not have as much meat at the geoduck or gaper clam. They tend to live between 1-3 feet deep (not as deep as either geoducks or gapers) and have a rather thick shell (compared to the geoduck and gaper).
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