Red Rock Crab

Invertebrates > Crustaceans

The Red Rock Crab (Cancer productus) is a powerful, heavily armored decapod crustacean native to the rugged rocky coastlines and kelp forests of the North American Pacific coast. Renowned for its brick-red fan-shaped shell and formidable black-tipped crushing claws,...

Mediterranean Slipper Lobster

Invertebrates > Crustaceans

The Mediterranean Slipper Lobster (Scyllarides latus), renowned in regional Mediterranean cuisines as ‘cicala di mare’ or ‘cigale de mer’, is a large, heavy-armored clawless decapod crustacean native to rocky reefs across the Mediterranean and...

European Flat Oyster

Invertebrates > Mollusks

The European Flat Oyster (Ostrea edulis), renowned in gastronomy as the Belon Oyster or native oyster, is the indigenous oyster of Western Europe and the Mediterranean. Historically carpeting thousands of square kilometers of the North Sea and English Channel in...

Olympia Oyster

Invertebrates > Mollusks

The Olympia Oyster (Ostrea lurida) is the only oyster species native to the Pacific coast of North America, historically forming expansive, complex biogenic reefs in estuaries from Puget Sound to San Francisco Bay. Celebrated as a culinary delicacy during the Gold...

Nameko

Fungi > Agarics & Gilled Mushrooms

Nameko (Pholiota microspora, historically known as Pholiota nameko) is a beloved wood-decaying basidiomycete mushroom native to the broadleaf temperate mountain forests of East Asia. Globally celebrated in Japanese culinary tradition as a prized ingredient in miso...