Clams

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Clams

• There are several types of clams. These are two
  example, Hard -shell clam and soft-shell clam .

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The Homes of the Clams

• Hard -shell clam are harvested along the Atlantic
  coast of Canada and the U.S.
• Soft-sell clams have a smooth body .from the
  mudflats of New England are especially popular
  for this clam.

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Breeding

• Clams belong to the Phylum Moll species,.They
  are members of class Bivalve .The breeding season
  varies with the locality, and also with the
  temperature of the water.Each egg is only about
  1/300 in across but a female many release 5-12 or
  even 25 million of eggs.

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Feeding Time

• They feed by straining fine porticoes from the
  water together with small floating organisms like
  diatoms on each bears countless cilia beating in
  such a way as to draw them near