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I was told that tuatua have two unequal angles on their shells, whereas pipi are more even on the two angles.
I woulda called that a tuatua.....just to add to the confusion haha Wink
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Tuatua definately have the wonky shape and pipi are even shaped. Having said that I'm not 100% sure it's a tuatua and I still don't know about the colour.
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It is kinda hard to tell from the angle really.... if we could see the other side of the shell, that'd clear it right up.
These are tuatuas from Papamoa....
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... and they would appear to me to have a much sharper (or acute, or steeper, whatever) angle to the shell than the one pictured at the top of the thread.... but like I said that first pic may have been at an odd angle to mess with the perspective....
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Doesn't your X-Ray vison work on angles? Superheroes pffft ... not what they used to be!
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Listen pal, you only get to have the super x-ray vision options if you are superheroing in the big jobs, like the US or places like that. My assigned powers for NZ and bits of the antipodes are the ability to jump over fairly small stones, (two times out of three), and pointing out the bleedin' obvious.
So dere! :-)
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That definitely looks like a pipi to me as well and that would explain the yellow colour of the flesh. Look at the difference in the shell shape of the tuatuas in the photo above compared to the first photo, big difference.
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Put the two together and they're chalk and cheese. Tua tua almost triangular except for rounded edge opposite hinge. Pipis much closer to oval...
old post but still relevant to me so...

Toxic shellfish poinsoning... anyone have direct experience of it?
I always suspect the health authorities are going to be very conservative and tell us not to eat shellfish when there is only a tiny tiny chance (or no real chance) of poisoning.

I'm tempted to try a few. wait an hour or so, then get stuck into them if I have no problems.

Am I stupid to consider such an experiment?


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NB So I'm sure the yellow pic is pipi and later pick is a nice catch of tuatuas.

But I'm always ready to be told I'm full of it :-)
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Originally posted by JasonEdward62 JasonEdward62 wrote:

Put the two together and they're chalk and cheese. Tua tua almost triangular except for rounded edge opposite hinge. Pipis much closer to oval...
old post but still relevant to me so...

Toxic shellfish poinsoning... anyone have direct experience of it?
I always suspect the health authorities are going to be very conservative and tell us not to eat shellfish when there is only a tiny tiny chance (or no real chance) of poisoning.

I'm tempted to try a few. wait an hour or so, then get stuck into them if I have no problems.

Am I stupid to consider such an experiment?


 
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Id give it a few hours then go nuts mate.
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Where did you get them from? There are a couple of health warnings on here:
http://www.ttophs.govt.nz/health_warnings (BoP specific)
and here http://www.foodsmart.govt.nz/food-safety/hunting-collecting-fishing/seafood-gatherers/ (national)

I wouldn't be mucking with those restrictions if I were you, unless you find breathing to be a bore.
http://www.epi.alaska.gov/id/dod/psp/ParalyticShellfishPoisoningFactSheet.pdf
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The shellfish ( not sure if they were tuatuas or pipis but were mostly smaller than expected ) from the estuary at Cooks Beach in January were that colour & we ate them without suffering any noticeable affects.
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One has the hinge in the middle, the other has it to one side..As to which is which.. never bothered to remember since otherwise both for all intense and purposes the same.
As to colour.. yes rem often  having a deep colour when we used to get them of pakiri beach and mangawhai sand banks back up in the estuary back in the 60s... and back then they where much larger than what we see today.
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Haha I'd say they are Tuatua. The hinge of the pipi is more centered making it more symmetrical and seen from the inside of the shell that triangular/squared edge of the tuatua does look rounder :)
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Originally posted by JasonEdward62 JasonEdward62 wrote:

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Toxic shellfish poinsoning... anyone have direct experience of it?
I always suspect the health authorities are going to be very conservative and tell us not to eat shellfish when there is only a tiny tiny chance (or no real chance) of poisoning.

I'm tempted to try a few. wait an hour or so, then get stuck into them if I have no problems.

Am I stupid to consider such an experiment?


Nah, have a go! Wink
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Well...in the week-ends I quite often have difficulty walking...paralytic? Nah but some similar...

But yeah nah yeah - I might have to take it a bit seriously...but surely our health authorities are so damn risk averse i.e. of saying it's OK when there's that 1 in a trillion chance someone might get slightly sick Deadand blame them...

And that was 2012... Wink

But thanks PeteTheMeat I did a quick google and came up with Jack yet THAT story does seem to indicate I should show a little caution ... cheers mate

Anyone had the poison themselves?
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We went to Papamoa to get Tua Tua...lots of small ones this year...will keep trying up and down to see if there are any bigger ones...difference between Pipi and Tua Tua is where the tongue comes out...Tua Tua out the end and Pipi out the side...used to be able to get Pipi without a boat...not now....pretty sad...nothing is the same as back in the 1960s...i remember all the Kina around Rabbit Island back in the 60s...was like a huge brown carpet...big buggers too....

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