While california, idaho, michigan, missouri, new york, oregon, texas, virginia, and washington have their own entries in this book, much of the wine made in every other US state is surprisingly good.

REMARKS Maximum length about 16 cm. The shell is thick (hence another name ‘thick trough shell’) and smooth, creamy brown in colour with a periostracum of much the same hue. This is a species of the e

REMARKS Maximum length about 13 cm. The more or less oval shell has a dull coloration outside – dirty white, brown or greyish, sometimes with zigzag red markings near the margins – and is purplish ins

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