Creatures From the Deep

From: The Washington Post | Date: July 12, 2003 | Copyright information

In the article about the "blue crab guru" [Food, July 9], your writer mistakenly labels oysters as crustaceans: "When the oyster supply dwindled in the 1920s another crustacean took its place. The blue crab . . ." Blue crabs are indeed crustaceans, members of the subphylum Crustacea of the phylum Arthropoda. However, oysters are in the phylum Mollusca, with the clams, snails and squid. The groups are frequently classified as "shellfish," but only by cookbook authors and regulators, never by b...

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