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The only bivalve group having comparable hinge features is the Philobryidae.
The smaller waders will feed on the bivalve molluscs and the little worms and that that are actually in the mud and sand.
Now explain how a univalve differs from a bivalve, in more ways than just the number of shells.
The soybean plant is called a legume because it produces a bivalve pod or fruit.
At the northern margin carbonate was produced at the outer platform in bivalve banks and at the platform edge in rhodolith pavements.
However, as early as 1923 Collip reported finding insulin-like activity in a bivalve mollusc, Mya arenaria.
Mactridae, also known as surf or trough shells or duck clams, is a family of marine bivalve clams of the order Veneroida.
Ours, however, is closed along the plane of bilateral symmetry, resembling the two closed valves of a bivalve rather than being flattened.
The beach sands are dominated by shells of bivalve mollusks, mainly venerids, gastropods, and echinoderms.
Over the past ten years, cladistics and molecular systematics have begun to be applied to solve problems of bivalve evolutionary biology.
Additional studies are required to resolve questions of vitellogenin regulation and the role of estrogens in bivalve molluscs.
A bivalve is characterized by possessing two shells secreted by a mantle that extends in a sheet on either side of the body.
Thus, they are mechanically much weaker than other bivalve shells and are easily fragmented after break-down of the organic matter.
We continue to use these techniques for the isolation of new genes involved in physiological processes in fish and bivalve molluscs.
Some oysters and also the bivalve Spondylus were found attached to the dinosaur bones.
Four new molluscan species, a bivalve and three gastropods, are named from shallow-marine, lower Upper Cretaceous strata in Oregon.
Many suspension-feeding marine bivalve molluscs live in variable environments such as estuaries and shallow coastal waters.
The hinge ligament of bivalve shell is an example of a complex development.
Sea urchins, like bivalve molluscs, are cosmopolitan in their distribution.
It appears to be cut from a large bivalve and does not have the twisted shape of a whelk or conch columella.
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This bivalve is only known to inhabit the Indian Ocean, where it fixes itself to a zoophyte, known by the name Gorgonia.
In Baltimore as many as 10,000 persons are employed in tinning this bivalve.
A bivalve is said to be equivalve when the two shells composing it are of the same size, inequivalve when they are not.
This is the only bivalve shell which is pedunculated, in which respect it constitutes a singular anomaly.
Almost all bivalve shells, or those of acephalous mollusca, are marine, about ten only out of ninety genera being freshwater.
You think yourself a tough old bivalve, but the most serious complaint you suffer from is ingrowing sensitiveness.
Shell bivalve, equivalve, very transversely elongated, open at both ends.
But did you ever notice any one try to open the terrestrial bivalve with a typewriter?
In the Lamellibranchiata, or bivalve shells, hermaphroditism is not rare.
Like the whelk, he loves the bivalve mollusk, but does not bore for it.
Flattened sideways and as hard as stone, no bivalve can resist it.
Many persons prefer it to the bivalve, when it is cooked properly.
A bivalve is said to be oblique when it slants off from the umbones.
The instance referred to is that presented by bivalve shell-fish.
Also to the angular bendings in the margins of some bivalve shells.
The mother-of-pearl which lines some shells, both univalve and bivalve.
There appear to be three varieties, spiral, univalve, and bivalve.
Bivalve size was measured by the perpendicular axes of height, from umbo to distal tip, and length, the longest axis from anterior to posterior ends.
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