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
New bivalve species and sideswimmer have been found to live communally with the greenish Bonellia spoonworm.
From Science Daily • Oct. 18, 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
And if he did not include an antediluvian oyster shell, say fifteen inches long, in this collection, it would be for lack of room and not because the bivalve was not interesting.
From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by Spears, John R.
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Marine Biology - Introductory
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