Voorbeelden van bivalve

• Scallops are mobile and can escape pollutants that immobile bivalves like mussels, clams and oysters cannot avoid.

• The zebra mussel, a black-and-white striped bivalve, is a highly invasive species.

• At the oyster processing plant, employees on mounted platforms shucked bivalves by the dozens.

• Mussels are bivalve animals, while gastropods like snails and limpets have one shell.

• The plovers eat worms, various crustaceans, insects, and occasionally bivalve mollusks.

• There are species that live in the sea and never move, such as bivalve molluscs.

• Razor clams are edible bivalve shellfish.

• Apart from biological papers on living bivalves, evolutionary biology in this volume mostly seems to mean phylogeny.

• In contrast, bivalves from the low (,201⁄2) saline concentration area were named 'epidemic bivalve'.

• Structure of protistan parasites found in bivalve molluscs.

• The bivalve zones are only known from the northern part of the basin.

• Thin-shelled bivalves, gastropods, crinoids and entomozoaceans dominate the fossil content.

• The increase in bivalve diversity has, however, not been relentless.

• It is for these reasons and due to the low numbers collected that bivalves were not included in the multivariate analyses.

• Both bivalves were used to extract haemolymph on the same day.

• They include deposit and suspension feeding polychaetes, bivalves, and crustaceans as well as endobenthic predatory polychaetes and nemertines.

• Abundant concretions at several levels contain well-preserved ammonoids, bivalves and occasional fish.

• These modes of deposition facilitated preservation of dinosaur trackways, desiccation cracks, shallow-tier trace fossils and in situ bivalve colonies through rapid burial.

• The fauna is limited to ammonites and a species of epifaunal bivalve.

• Image analysis : a new method for estimating triploidy in commercial bivalves.

• It is immediately clear that anybody seriously interested in the evolution of bivalves should study it.

• Brachiopods, cephalopods (ammonoids and one nautiloid) and bivalves are rare.