Generations of clam diggers have dug into the mud for tasty soft-shell clams.
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There is the steamer clam, beloved son of New England, also known as the soft-shell clam.
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The menu includes HoJo-style hard-shell clam strips, oysters, smelt, soft-shell crab, and tiny bay scallops.
From the theatlantic.com
The second discovery for me was SOFT-SHELL CLAM, which I somehow missed hearing about or eating all these years.
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We waddled back to our room, a luxurious bungalow with soft lighting, a solar-heated shower and a giant clam shell at the entrance to rinse our feet.
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Other shellfish include abalone and geoduck on the California coast, while on the East Coast the surf clam, quahog, and the soft-shell clam.
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It may also refer to a few other common edible species, such as the soft-shell clam, Mya arenaria, and the ocean quahog, Arctica islandica.
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A moon snail, right, envelopes a soft shell clam, with its slimy, mucous-oozing foot and eats the clam meat inside, in Lubec, Maine, on Wednesday, May 19, 2010.
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Many types of clam escape predators by burrowing into the sea bed using alternating movements of their shell and of the soft, muscular foot contained within that shell.