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ITALIAN RECIPES TRADITIONAL AND CREATIVE 

mussles  Mussels or molluscs:characteritics and italian names

In this section we present the molluscs and mussels, more commonly used in the Italian cooking. As always giving priority to those used in our Italian  recipes. We have the oysters used as italian starter, the very common striped venus clams used with many spaghetti sauces, blue mussels, razor shells very common made baked au gratin. Each name od mussels is linked with description and cooking recipes with pictures.

The names vary, in Italy and abroad, as are linked with the folk tradition. We have tried to submit mussels synonyms  widespread in Italy.

 Italian names and  clip arts of mussels or molluscs

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mussels (mitili)
oysters

ostriche

mussels

striped Venus clams

vongole

(chamelea gallina)

mussels

round clams

TARTUFI DI MARE

mussels

wedge shells

telline

mussels

blue mussels

cozze

(mytilus galloprovincialis)

mussels

scallops

CAPESANTE or PETTINI

mussels

cockles

FASOLARI

mussels

razor shells

canolicchi-cannolicchi

mussels

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see also

crustaceans caphalopods

mussels

molluscs  

molluscs

 

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