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Moreton Bay bug flesh prior to cooking. T. orientalis is known by a number of common names. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization prefers the name flathead lobster, while in Australia, it is more widely known as the Moreton Bay bug after Moreton Bay, Brisbane, Queensland. [3]
Slipper lobsters are typically bottom dwellers of the continental shelves, found at depths of up to 500 metres (1,600 ft). [6] Slipper lobsters eat a variety of molluscs, including limpets, mussels and oysters, [7] as well as crustaceans, polychaetes and echinoderms. [8]
The flesh of I. peronii is sometimes reported as tasting of garlic, which makes the species less desirable than the Moreton Bay bug, Thenus orientalis, for cooking. [4] Only the tail contains edible meat. Small individuals yield 30% meat, while larger animals, which have proportionally smaller tails, have lower yields. [3]
The term is occasionally extended to colloquial names for freshwater or marine crustaceans (e.g. Balmain bug, Moreton Bay bug, mudbug) and used by physicians and bacteriologists for disease-causing germs (e.g. superbugs). [5] Most hemipterans feed on plants, using their sucking and piercing mouthparts to extract plant sap.
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Thenus orientalis, the Moreton Bay bug or Bay lobster, a slipper lobster species found throughout the waters of Australia's north coast; Thunnus orientalis, the Pacific bluefin tuna, a fish species found in the Pacific Ocean; Timia orientalis, a picture-winged fly species; Tipula orientalis, a crane fly species in the genus Tipula
Bay lobsters, better known in Australia as Moreton Bay bugs, are common in seafood restaurants, or may be served with steak as "surf and turf". [citation needed] The most common species of the aquaculture industry are salmon, tuna, oysters, and prawns.
Zimmern goes snorkeling, spear fishing and visits a farm where they pamper their cattle. He makes a stop at the Sydney Fish Market where he samples bizarre food he has never tasted before, including Moreton Bay bug, Balmain bug, flathead fish and spanner crabs. 43 (6) May 19, 2009 Singapore