bivalve

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While parts of the river are still “considered impaired” because of agricultural runoff, Sickmann says the Saint Croix’s “world class mussel population” is helping because these bivalves are living water purifiers.

From Scientific American

Only a few years ago, the clear, shallow waters of Mar Menor, a saltwater lagoon off eastern Spain that is Europe’s largest, hosted a robust population of the highly endangered fan mussel, a meter-long bivalve.

From Science Magazine

Yes, I adore the bivalves themselves — those sweet, saline nuggets plucked out of their blue-black shells.

From Seattle Times

About these bivalves, they wrote: “Our scallop diver will randomly pop his head in on any given day and say, ‘I’ve got some scallops for you,’ and within an hour they’ll be on the menu.”

From Washington Post

The researchers think these seemingly radical alterations in lifestyle were made possible by similar structures in ascidians and bivalve mollusks, they report this month in Contributions to Zoology.

From Science Magazine