Callista chione
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Venerida |
| Family: | Veneridae |
| Genus: | Callista |
| Species: | C. chione
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| Callista chione | |
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Callista chione, the smooth clam, is a rather large, temperate, marine,
Balkan and the Maghreb
countries.
It has been found that, as is the case with many bivalve molluscs, which are filter-feeders, (they feed by filtering food particles from the water), that Callista chione, common in fish markets in the Mediterranean, concentrates toxins from
red tides,[b] sewage water, old sediment dredging, ship ballast water dumping, etc. These toxins cannot be eliminated by the traditional cleansing of shellfish in clean water or by cooking, and can be responsible for complex human health problems: respiratory ailments, skin rashes, even paralysis, etc., such as it is known now to have occurred in New Orleans, associated with the contact or ingestion of severely contaminated water, left by Hurricane Katrina. The commonest of these dangers is known as PSP or paralytic shellfish poisoning
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Vernacular names
- En: Smooth or brown Venus-clam
- Fr: Vernis, grande palourde
- It: Fasolaro (official name), Cappa liscia, cappa chione, issolone, venerechione
- De: Braune Venusmuschel
- Es: Almejón de sangre, mariposa, almejón brillante, gavesia, concha fina (Málaga España)
- Gl: Ameixón, ameixa macha
- Ca: Petxinot de sang, lluenta
- Gr: Gyalisteri (γυαλιστερή)
- Hr: Lakirka, Rumenka, Klapun