Scallop

Scallops are invertebrate animals mentioned in the How to Train Your Dragon Book Series.

Description
Scallops (Family Pectinidae) are bivalve shellfish found in marine waters worldwide. They have two valves, or shells, hinged together and are often ruffled. The "upper" shell is typically flatter, while the bottom is more rounded.

Unlike most other bivalves, Scallops are very motile, and can change locations quickly in short bursts. They do not fix themselves to one location as some other mollusks do.

Function
In How to Train Your Dragon, scallops may be used as part of an exclamation, as well as for size comparison.

"Ohhh Suffering Scallops!""

- Hiccup

They are most used for food, however, in many cultures. Typically the muscular 'foot' is eaten, as well as the orange roe sac, called 'coral'.

How to Train Your Dragon
Scallops are used in an exclamatory phrase for something that isn't going correctly.

Scallops are also mentioned when describing the behavior of Sea Dragons.

"A real Sea Dragon is a cruel, careless mystery like the mighty ocean itself, one moment as calm as a scallop, the next raging like an octopus."

- Old Wrinkly

A Seadragonus Giganticus Maximus also appears, waking up from a centuries-long slumber. While asleep, it had other oceanic creatures living on it, but as it awoke the wildlife scatters, including scallops.

"And, a week later, the sea around the Dragon Mountain - which had previously been teeming with crabs and lobsters and shoals and shoals of fish - was a great, underwater desert. Not a mollusk stirred, not a scallop shimmied."

- How to Train Your Dragon