Where can the species called geoduck (pronounced gooey duck), be found?
peeled in your local TV listing for reruns… Q: How do you pronounce ‘geoduck’? A: OK, so maybe people haven’t been asking this, but they’re almost certainly getting it all wrong, so you have to read this one anyway, and read it first. The proper way to pronounce the word is “gooey-duck”, not “gee-oh-duck”. Unlike learning the proper way to pronounce words such as “Cthulhu” and “YHWH”, this admittedly does not entail risk to your mortal soul. Nevertheless, if you one day happen to fall into a conversation with a group of geoduck aficionados, you don’t want to instantly reveal yourself to be a clueless newbie outsider, now do you? The word is also sometimes spelled ‘goeduck’, but only by people who don’t know any better. Q: What is a geoduck? A: A geoduck is not a duck in any way, shape, or form. It is a species of large saltwater clam (Panope generosa) which is native to the northern Pacific coasts of Canada and the United States of America, that is, along the coasts of Washington sta
The geoduck (pronounced /ˈɡuː.iːdʌk/ “gooey duck”), Panopea abrupta, is a species of very large saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Hiatellidae. The shell of this clam is large, about 15 centimeters (5.9 in) to over 20 centimeters (7.9 in) in length, but the extremely long siphons make the clam itself very much longer than this: the “neck” or siphons alone can be 1 meter (3.3 ft) in length. Native to the northwest coast of the United States and Canada (primarily Washington and British Columbia), the geoduck is the largest burrowing clam in the world, weighing in at an average of one to three pounds (0.5–1.5 kg) at maturity, but specimens weighing over 15 pounds (6.8 kg) and as much as 6 feet (1.8 m) in length are not unheard of.
The geoduck (pronounced /ˈɡuː.iːdʌk/ “gooey duck”), Panopea abrupta, is a species of very large saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Hiatellidae. The shell of this clam is large, about 15 centimeters (5.9 in) to over 20 centimeters (7.9 in) in length, but the extremely long siphons make the clam itself very much longer than this: the “neck” or siphons alone can be 1 meter (3.3 ft) in length. Native to the northwest coast of the United States and Canada (primarily Washington and British Columbia), the geoduck is the largest burrowing clam in the world, weighing in at an average of one to three pounds (0.5–1.5 kg) at maturity, but specimens weighing over 15 pounds (6.8 kg) and as much as 6 feet (1.8 m) in length are not unheard of. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.
