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What makes an animal a shellfish?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Shellfish is a generic term, mostly used for edible marine invertibrates such as scallops, clams, oysters, crabs and lobster. There are no real discernable characteristics, except that most of them have a protective outer shell.

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