Soft-Shelled Clam, Long-Neck, Steamer

Family Myacidae

• French: Mye
• Dutch: Strandgaper
• German: Sandklaffmuschel
• Swedish: Sandmussla
• Norwegian: Vanlig Sandskjell
• Danish: Sandmusling
• Other: Maninose, Nannynose (U.S.A.); Brallion (N. Ireland)

REMARKS Maximum length about 15 cm; usual length much less. The shell, shown above left, is dirty white or fawn in colour; the periostracum fawn or light yellow. The shell is thin and brittle and has a permanent gape at each end. The double siphon is long, and accounts for the name long-neck. (In the drawing this is shown horizontal, but its normal posture is vertical.)