bivalve

How To Use bivalve In A Sentence

• However, early calapids in the Cretaceous were smaller in size and are not considered as major predators of bivalves and gastropods.
• Threadlike cilia-bearing tentacles probe for food, such as forams, detritus, and even the occasional buried bivalve, and bring it to the mouth where a large radula grinds it up.
• However, as early as 1923 Collip reported finding insulin-like activity in a bivalve mollusc, Mya arenaria.
• It appears to be cut from a large bivalve and does not have the twisted shape of a whelk or conch columella.
• A good analog of the decrescent side is the interarea of brachiopods or the hinge area of bivalves.
• The smaller waders will feed on the bivalve molluscs and the little worms and that that are actually in the mud and sand.
• The flowers are variable in color, and produced in loose clusters; the seeds are produced in long, flattened, or cylindrical, bivalved pods, and vary, in The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
• These resemble the foot of some specialized bivalves (Solemya or Lucina) used to penetrate putrid sediment to release H 2 S consumed by symbiotic chemoautotrophic bacteria.
• The fossil content consists of ammonites, belemnites, brachiopods, echinoderms, bivalves, crinoids, gastropods, ostracodes and benthic foraminifers.
• The drill is a common predator of the bivalves here in the reserve.