# Talk:Chlamys hastata


= Edible? =
There's nothing in the article concerning this type of scallop as food. Is it edible? Is there a market for it?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.235.1.4 (talk) 17:19, 25 May 2012 (UTC) 

I have added what information I could find. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:24, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

This review is transcluded from Talk:Chlamys hastata/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Reviewer: Peter coxhead (talk · contribs) 15:12, 28 May 2012 (UTC)


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I have dealt with the items mentioned so far under 1a and 1b. The "Fishery" section was a late addition after someone asked on the article's talk page whether the spiny scallop was edible. I have added an extra image. With regard to 3a, I can't find information on how species in the genus differ from other pectinids. WoRMS lists about 10 species in the genus and about 50 that are now classified elsewhere. 
The Cassell's Dictionary is difficult. It is tatty, has no cover, no ISBN and dates back to my husband's schooldays, probably long before you were studying invertebrate zoology at university. It gave a better meaning for the word "chlamys" than anything I could find online. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:55, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Have a look at [2] and see if you can at least give an OCLC number (|oclc=... in the citation). Alternatively, the text of a very early edition is online here; you could cite that. Peter coxhead (talk) 23:32, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
I think I have dealt with all the items you mention in 1a. With regard to the orientation of the shell, I have added an explanatory section in Bivalve shell and wikilnked it from here. I went to the public library and referred to a better Latin dictionary.
I'm thinking about what you say in 2b. I found an extra source about the byssus attachment where it says "Chlamys hastata, a scallop species that attaches to substrates with a byssus."
As for the chemoreceptors, source 4 states that Chlamys hastata has chemoreceptors, I have put them on the tentacles like the queen scallop but I'll take them off if you like. What other function do you think the tentacles might have? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:15, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
I've found this kind of issue to be a problem in writing plant articles too. The standard approach in biological texts when describing a taxon is (sensibly) to describe only the departures from the norm for the higher level taxon to which it belongs, so if you want to source a statement that species X y has feature F, it may be impossible: you have to rely on the species being a member of e.g. a genus which is said to have this feature. You can then write something like "As is the case for all members of its genus, X y has feature F" and source the genus-level statement. However I've no desire to nitpick over this; as the article is written now it seems quite ok to me. Peter coxhead (talk) 23:38, 29 May 2012 (UTC)