“…Captured and, in some cases, cultivated veneroid and unionid species provide an important food source for – often vulnerable – communities across large parts of Asia, including Cambodia (Ngor et al ., 2018), China (Zeng et al ., 2019; Fig. 3A), India (Sonowal & Kardong, 2020), Indonesia (Lukman et al ., 2019), Japan (Horikoshi, 2020) and Malaysia (Zieritz et al ., 2018 a ; Rak et al ., 2020 a ), as well as, for example, Western Africa (Akélé et al ., 2015). On other continents, records on FBs as a source of food are often historical, referring to, for example, ancient/indigenous communities in North America (Theler & Hill, 2019), Australia (Garvey, 2017) and Europe (Nicodemus, 2011).…”