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LOBSTER SHELL [4 records]

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Record 1 2023-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Crustaceans
  • Seafood and Freshwater Food (Food Industries)
  • Commercial Fishing
Universal entry(ies)
Palinuridae
Latin
OBS

Any of a family(Palinuridae) of sea crustaceans, similar to the common lobster, but lacking the large pincers and having a spiny shell.

OBS

spiny lobster and rock lobster: trade names recommended by the "Comité de normalisation de la terminologie des pêches commerciales" and by Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Crustacés
  • Produits de mer et d'eau douce (Industr. alim.)
  • Pêche commerciale
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Palinuridae
Latin
DEF

Crustacé décapode marcheur de la famille des Palinuridés, caractérisé par sa grande taille (30 à 60 cm), sa carapace épineuse et deux longues antennes.

CONT

Les langoustes (Palinuridae) diffèrent essentiellement des homards par leur première paire de pattes qui possèdent des pinces avec de simples griffes, au lieu de vraies pinces ou chélates.

OBS

La famille Palinuridae est composée de plusieurs genres : Panulirus, Palinurus et Jasus.

OBS

langouste : appellation commerciale normalisée par l'OLF et le Comité de normalisation de la terminologie des pêches commerciales.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Crustáceos
  • Productos del mar y de agua dulce (Ind. alimentaria)
  • Pesca comercial
Entrada(s) universal(es)
Palinuridae
Latin
DEF

Crustáceo decápodo macruro, que alcanza hasta cinco decímetros de longitud, con todas sus patas terminadas en pinzas pequeñas, cuatro antenas, dos centrales cortas y dos laterales muy largas y fuertes, ojos prominentes, cuerpo casi cilíndrico, y cola larga y gruesa.

OBS

Es de color fusco que se vuelve rojo por la cocción. Vive en alta mar, y su carne se tiene por manjar delicado.

OBS

No confundir la langosta, de color rojo-naranja y dos antenas muy largas, con el bogavante, similar a la langosta, pero con dos extremidades que terminan en pinzas muy grandes y robustas y que posee un color rojo más intenso y muchas veces más oscuro.

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Record 2 2009-11-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Prepared Dishes (Cooking)
  • Seafood and Freshwater Food (Food Industries)
CONT

There are two methods for serving lobster in the shell. The shell can be broken apart using lobster crackers and the meat then picked out, or the lobster can be cut in half down the centre and the claws cut open with a large heavy knife. All of the lobster is edible except for the shell, the small stomach(hard sac) behind the head and the dark vein, running down the back of the tail.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plats cuisinés
  • Produits de mer et d'eau douce (Industr. alim.)
CONT

Le homard en carapace est un produit très luxueux, mais il existe peu de façons de le servir.

Spanish

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Record 3 2005-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
DEF

An animal belonging to the Mollusca.

OBS

Mollusca: In present use (mainly following the classification proposed by Cuvier in 1788-1800), a phylum or sub-kingdom of animals, comprising the four classes Gastropoda (limpets, snails, etc.), Scaphopoda (tooth-shells), Cephalopoda (cuttlefish, etc.), and Lamellibranchia (oyster, mussel, etc.); the classes Cirrhopoda, Tunicata, and Brachiopoda, included by Cuvier among the Mollusca, are now placed elsewhere, and the Polyzoa have since Cuvier’s time been added to the phylum and again removed.

CONT

shellfish : An aquatic animal having a shell, as the oyster and other mollusks and the lobster and other crustaceans.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
DEF

Animal invertébré au corps mou.

CONT

Principaux mollusques : Céphalopodes : ammonite, argonaute, baculite, bélemnite, calmar (ou encornet), nautile, poulpe (ou pieuvre), seiche. Gastéropodes : buccin (ou trompette), casque, cérite, cône, doris, escargot (ou hélix, limaçon), fuseau, haliotide (ou ormeau), harpe, janthine, limace, limnée, littorine (ou bigorneau, vignot), mitre, murex (ou rocher), nérinée, nérite, olive, ombrelle, paludine, patelle, planorbe, pleurobranche, porcelaine, pourpre, pupa (ou maillot), strombe, terebellum, testacelle, triton (ou trompette), troque, turbinelle, turbo, turritelle, vermet. Lamellibranches : anodonte, avicule, huître (Ostracés), isocarde, lime, moule, mulette, palourde, pedum, peigne (ou pecten, coquille Saint-Jacques), pétoncle (ou amande de mer), pholade, pinne, praire, solen (ou manche de couteau), spondyle, taret, tridacne (ou bénitier), vénéricarde, vénus.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Moluscos, equinodermos y procordados
DEF

Filum extenso de invertebrados, incluyendo babosas, caracoles y otros de cuerpo blando, no segmentado, protegido en parte o totalmente por una concha.

OBS

Comparar con la clase Crustacea.

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Record 4 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cooking and Gastronomy

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cuisine et gastronomie

Spanish

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