bivalve

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A major highlight of the project is the detailed anatomical study of Myonera aleutiana, a carnivorous bivalve.

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

That division of the Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells, like the clams and oysters; Ð so called because they have no evident head.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah