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bivalve (noun) - In English, 'bivalve' is a term used in biology and zoology to refer to a mollusk with a shell consisting of two hinged valves, such as clams, oysters, or mussels. These creatures are characterized by their two-part shell and filter-feeding habits
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In bivalves it is usually part of the feeding structure.
And finally among the lamellibranch bivalves.
Bivalves belong to the mollusk phylum of animals.
There are limitations to the use of bivalves as bioindicators.
Some species of bivalves are truly functional hermaphrodites.
Mollusks are mostly represented by gastropods and bivalves.
And then those wicked bivalves overtook me.
These bivalves can live for several centuries.
There is a large variety of bivalves and molluscs.
These bivalves were facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeders.
It feeds mainly on bivalves and gastropods.
These bivalves are stationary suspension feeders.
The ark clams and the oysters are bivalves.
Shells of bivalves and aquatic snails are also common.
The formation contain fossils of bivalves and gastropods.
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Bivalves vary greatly in overall shape.
Some freshwater bivalves have very restricted ranges.
Bivalves are an important part of the global shellfish production.
I make it a practice never to ingest bivalves.
Some bivalves have the ability to produce pearls.
Experience in the production of bivalves is an advantage.
Most bivalves are filter feeders.
These toxins accumulate on filter feeders such as bivalves.
This helps them to hunt bivalves such as oysters.
Protandry and sex reversal may occur in bivalves.
Some annelids and bivalves also have apposition eyes.
Method for packaging alive bivalves.
Most bivalves in other families have an external ligament instead.
It is unusual among bivalves in being carnivorous.
Marine bivalves were the likely source of hepatotoxic shellfish poisoning.
Larval shell morphology is typical of bivalves having planktotrophic development.
Bivalves use these muscles to keep their shells closed.
Conditioning bivalves in the tropics.
Bivalves and seaweed were abundant and in apparent good health.
They also consume bivalves and occasionally small fish.
Bivalves have separate sexes.
Leptorhynchus feeds primarily on bivalves.
Mussels and other bivalves do tremendous amounts of water filtration.
The diet of the adult is made up of bivalves and crustaceans.
Bivalves have also been proposed to have evolved from the rostroconchs.
The arrangement of these teeth is often important in identifying bivalves.
Up to fourteen of the bivalves have been found associated with one urchin.
They are reported as feeding on bivalves.
Bivalves have long been a part of the diets of coastal human populations.
I have to avoid the bivalves.
They are called bivalves since the animal is protected by two shells.
You know about bivalves.
Bivalves are used for food and were important to coastal native peoples.
Cryptodonta is a subclass of the bivalves.
It drops bivalves on hard surface in order to break open the shells.
