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    The ocean quahog (Arctica islandica) is a species of edible clam, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Arcticidae. This species is native to the North...
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    1498 or 1499–2006), also known as Hafrún, was an ocean quahog clam (Arctica islandica, family Arcticidae) that was dredged off the coast of Iceland in 2006...
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    such as the soft-shell clam, Mya arenaria, and the ocean quahog, Arctica islandica. Another species commercially exploited on the Atlantic Coast of the...
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    venus clams. Confusingly, the "ocean quahog" is a different species, Arctica islandica, which, although superficially similar in shape, is in a different...
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    second oldest currently living non-clonal tree. The quahog clam (Arctica islandica) is exceptionally long-lived, with a maximum recorded age of 507 years...
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    (March 1983). "Characterization and Utilization of Ocean Quahog (Arctica islandica) Clam Juice as a Liquid and Dehydrated Flavoring Agent". Journal of...
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  • species) can on occasion live hundreds of years: A bivalve mollusk (Arctica islandica) (aka "Ming", lived 507±2 years.) Some jellyfish species, including...
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  • Rougheye rockfish (Sebastes aleutianus) – 205 years Ocean quahog clam (Arctica islandica) – 507 years Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) - 250 to 500...
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  • to be 1,550 years old. A specimen, "Ming" of the Icelandic cyprine Arctica islandica (also known as an ocean quahog), a mollusk, was found to have lived...
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    clams in the order Venerida. The only living species in the family is Arctica islandica. There are also many fossil species classified in a number of genera...
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