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
He also analyzed oxygen isotope levels in the bivalve shells to determine that the holdfasts lived in slightly warmer water than today, at the upper range of temperatures found in modern kelp forests.
From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2024
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
A bivalve is said to be equivalve when the two shells composing it are of the same size, inequivalve when they are not.
From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Gray, Peter
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Marine Biology - Introductory
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