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
He put the wee bivalve in a petri dish and asked a colleague to set it aside.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
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
You say bivalve and deep water coral reefs grow over the rigs' legs, yet reefs are otherwise hard to come by in the Northern Gulf.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2023
Mya, mī′a, n. a genus of bivalve shells: a clam of this genus.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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Marine Biology - Introductory
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