Table 2. Biochemical composition (lipid and protein, % dry weight) recorded in marine bivalve species of different regions.
Species | Region | Data period | Lipid (%DW) | Protein (%DW) | References |
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N. inaequiscupta | Antarctic | Late spring | 12.2–17.1 | 21.1–25.8a | This study |
Laternula elliptica | Antarctic | Summer | ca. 8.20 | n/a | [68] |
Antarctic | Late spring | 6.0–18.0 | 60.0–85.0b | [69] | |
Aequiyoldia eightsii | Antarctic | Summer | 4.60–8.30 | 13.1–22.3a | Unpublished data |
Nucula sulcata | Sub-arctic | Late spring | 6.69–6.77 | 9.72–9.95c | [70] |
Nucula turgida | Sub-arctic | Late spring | 13.0–15.0 | 60.0–66.0b | [71] |
Abra alba | Sub-arctic | Late spring | 4.66–5.56 | 8.88–9.40c | [72] |
Chlamys septemradiata | Sub-arctic | Late spring | 5.89–13.1 | 9.51–13.8c | [73] |
Lima hians | Sub-arctic | Late spring | 5.31–7.36 | 8.10–10.5c | [74] |
Astarte montagui | Sub-arctic | Late spring | 4.12–5.58 | 9.35–9.97c | [75] |
Mytilus edulis | Sub-arctic | Spring | 5.00–6.00 | 50.0–60.0b | [76] |
Mytilus galloprovincialis | Temperate | Late spring | 1.35 | 11.1b | [77] |
Temperate | Summer | 6.27 | 49.5b | [78] | |
Temperate | Late spring | 1.60 | 9.70b | [79] | |
Temperate | Late spring | 1.84 | 8.78a | [80] | |
Tapes decussatus | Temperate | Late spring | 1.61 | 10.9b | [81] |
Tapes philippinarum | Temperate | Late spring | 1.33 | 10.5b | [81] |
Crassostrea gigas | Temperate | Spring | 7.33 | ca. 16.0a | [82] |
Temperate | Spring | 8.00 | 40.5a | [83] | |
Ostrea edulis | Temperate | Spring | 6.90 | 38.9a | [83] |
Mactra chinensis | Temperate | Spring | 1.50–22.0 | 16.1–43.4d | [84] |
Fulvia mutica | Temperate | Spring | ca. 7.50 | ca. 55.0b | [85] |
a = protein data through Lowry method
b = protein data through Kjeldhal method
c = estimation of nitrogen content; n/a: not available.