BABYLON SHELL

LATIN NAME: BABYLONIA  AEROLATA

 

Introduction

Babylonia areolata is an aquatic mollusk in the genus of the gastropod family Buccinidae. Buccinidae  mollusks live in almost every habitat, including deep-sea vents, coral reefs, estuaries, rocky and sandy shorelines, freshwater lakes, rivers and almost everywhere on land from deserts to rainforests (Lydeard and Lindberg, 2003).

This species distributes from Ceylon and the Nicobar Islands through the Gulf of Thailand, along the Vietnamese, Chinese coasts to Taiwan (Altena and Gittenberger, 1981) and inhabits sandy or muddy bottoms in shallow water. Economically, mollusks have Figureured prominently in fisheries and mariculture, being used as food (e.g., clams,scallops, abalone, calamari and conch) and commercial pearl production (Landman going to be a target species of commercial fisheries in Thailand. At present, catches are decreasing and the size of mollusk obtained from the Thai , Viet coasts is small, therefore aquaculture has increasingly attempted to supply the market and the enhancement of stock. There are three different shell colors (brown, cream and white) of , ivory shell is a gastropod familyet al., 2001) Babylonia areolata is found in the Gulf of Thailand. Different shell colors have different values (Figure 1). The brown shell has the highest price while the white shell has the lowest price. There is a big export demand for brown shells to countries such as China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Japan.

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SIZE / WEIGHT:

MEDIUM SHELL: 30-40 GR / PIECE

BIG SHELL: 40-100 GR / PIECE

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