bivalve
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This marks only the second bivalve species ever documented entirely through non-invasive micro-CT scanning.
From Science Daily • Nov. 2, 2025
In full transparency, I am so in love with this species of marine bivalve mollusks — but it didn't start out that way.
From Salon • Jan. 31, 2024
Left almost entirely unsupervised by her distracted, glamorous parents, Meg makes the city her oyster, with all the grit and pungency that little bivalve implies.
From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2023
The shells belonged to an assortment of tiny seafloor creatures, including small clams; bivalve crustaceans called ostracods; cone-shaped animals known as hyoliths; and stylophorans, oddly shaped precursors to starfish.
From Scientific American • Sep. 28, 2023
It undergoes three moults, each time altering its figure, until at the third exuviation it has become enclosed in a bivalve shell, and has acquired a second eye.
From Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Lee, H. W. (Henry William)
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Marine Biology - Introductory
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Marine Biology - High School
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