bivalve

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He put the wee bivalve in a petri dish and asked a colleague to set it aside.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2024

Scientifically named Teredinids, these creatures have no shell, but are classed as bivalve shellfish and related to oysters and mussels.

From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 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

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