06-15-2018, 07:47 AM
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The oysters you eat are a different species from the ones that bear pearls. The kind that are eaten are called ostreids and the pearl-producing oysters are called Pterioida.
Last edited by Lee Stewart; 06-21-2018 at 07:38 PM.
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