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Story: Shellfish

Edible bivalves

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Edible bivalves

Many of New Zealand’s favourite shellfish are bivalves – shellfish with two hinged shells. Included in this poster are (left to right) cockles, green-lipped mussels, queen scallops, rock oysters and New Zealand scallops.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-A-SEAFOOD-1991-01-front

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Maggy Wassilieff, Shellfish – Bivalve molluscs, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/8022/edible-bivalves (accessed 18 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 2 March 2009.