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668:. The QPX parasite is unicellular and possesses at least one flagellum, like most other stramenopile organisms. Thraustochytrids are common protists in marine sediments and the water column, but only a few thraustochytrids are known as parasites of marine animals. Although QPX disease was first recorded on the Atlantic coast of Canada in the early 1960s, it did not become a major economic problem until its appearance in cultured clams at Prince Edward Island, Massachusetts in 1992, and Virginia in 1997. Infected clams are characterized by the presence of blisters or pustules in the mantle and later by gaping and death. 59: 72: 677: 529: 299: 685: 806:. Eating contaminated shellfish, raw or cooked, can be fatal. Some other kinds of algal blooms make the seawater appear red, but red tide blooms do not always discolor the water, nor are they related to tides. 512:
is important, clam farmers have bred specialized versions of these clams with distinctions needed for them to be distinguished in the marketplace. These are quite similar to common "wild type"
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in southern European seafood dishes. The largest clams are quahogs or chowders and cherrystones; they have the toughest meat and are used in such dishes as
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Dove, Alistair; Bowser (28 September 2020) . "Histological Analysis of an Outbreak of QPX Disease in Wild Hard Clams Mercenaria mercenaria in New York".
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is situated right in the middle of "quahog country" and has supplied a quarter of the U.S.'s total annual commercial quahog catch. The quahog is the
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word for commerce. Today people living in coastal New England still use Algonquian words for the clam, as they have done for thousands of years.
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Harte, M. E. 2001. "Systematics and taxonomy, Chapter 1", pp. 3–51, in Kraeuter, J. N. and M. Castagna (eds.) "Biology of the Hard Clam",
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In fish markets, there are specialist names for different sizes of this species of clam. The smallest legally harvestable clams are called
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algae. This algae accumulates in the clams' tissues and is toxic to humans when they are consumed. The toxin affects the human
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for use as eel bait, the population became self-sustaining and can now be found in Southampton Water and has also spread to
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is caused by a poorly known protistan parasite. Its DNA sequence analysis places the QPX parasite among the
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Calvo, LMR; Ford, S. E.; Kraeuter, J. N.; Leavitt, D. F.; Smolowitz, R.; Burreson, E. M. (1 January 2007).
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or clam bars specialize in serving littlenecks and topnecks raw on an opened half-shell, usually with a
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In coastal areas of the New England states, Long Island, and New Jersey, restaurants known as
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cousin the "steamer". Littlenecks are often found in-the-shell in sauces, soups, stews, and
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strain of quahogs, which occur naturally in low numbers wherever quahogs are found.
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clams, except that their shells bear distinctive markings. These are known as the
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Species of bivalve mollusc native to the east coast of North and Central America
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Quahog parasite X (or quahog parasite unknown ) disease of the hard clam
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Eldridge, P.J., W. Waltz, and H. Mills. 1975. Relative abundance of
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from the shells, especially those colored purple; the species name
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to clear the disease. It was discovered along the coast of
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Confusingly, the "ocean quahog" is a different species,
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in estuaries of South Carolina. Veliger 18:396-397.
447: 444: 407: 395: 367: 358: 33:. For the fictional setting of the animated sitcom 27:"Quahog" redirects here. For the ocean quahog, see 852:Developments in Aquaculture and Fisheries Science 794:" refers to an accumulation of a toxin, such as 770:. Originally bred in the warm water outflows at 822:For the pronunciation and variant spellings of 1225: 1169:. Washington State Department of Health. 2020 566:; but they are particularly abundant between 8: 854:, Vol. 31. Elsevier Science B.V.: New York. 755:used the hard clam for food and ornaments. 542:) and encrusted after the death of the clam 2162: 1972: 1863: 1624: 1251: 1232: 1218: 1210: 57: 48: 1186: 1184: 1036: 869:(1992). The Northern Quahog: Biology of 954:, 3rd ed (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973) 245:that is native to the eastern shores of 2507:Fauna of the Southeastern United States 2502:Fauna of the Northeastern United States 1161: 1159: 1157: 1155: 1153: 843: 815: 546:Hard clams are quite common throughout 485:word "poquauhock", which is similar in 348:The most distinctive of these names is 930:(13th ed.). HarperCollins. 2018. 862: 860: 827: 758:A population of hard clams exists in 7: 747:, the shell beads exchanged in the 634:Quahog parasite unknown (QPX) is a 310:The hard clam has many alternative 2537:Seafood in Native American cuisine 968:A Key Into the Language of America 743:used the quahog as a component in 532:An old quahog shell that has been 25: 952:Shorter Oxford English Dictionary 638:that affects the hard shell clam 2482:Marine molluscs of North America 1062:Journal of Aquatic Animal Health 905:(9th ed.). Chambers. 2003. 431: 391: 354: 269:; this species is in the family 70: 1192:"Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning" 1167:"Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning" 970:. London: Gregory Dexter, 1643. 2487:Molluscs of the Atlantic Ocean 1125:Rhode Island Facts and Symbols 608:coast of North America and in 290:in the interior of the shell. 1: 2492:Molluscs of the United States 1017:Journal of Shellfish Research 337:, and the largest are called 981:Mercenaria mercenaria notata 600:. The species has also been 37:named after the quahog, see 2517:Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus 481:). 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Index

Littleneck
Arctica islandica
Quahog, Rhode Island

Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Mollusca
Bivalvia
Venerida
Veneroidea
Veneridae
Mercenaria
Binomial name
Linnaeus
1758
marine
bivalve
mollusk
North America
Central America
Prince Edward Island
Yucatán Peninsula
clams
Veneridae
Arctica islandica
periostracum
pallial sinus

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