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Definitions of bivalve:
  • noun:   marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together
  • adjective:   used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.)



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teredo-navalis common-blue-mussel eastern-american-oyster queen-scallop watering-pot-shell noble-pen-shell black-lipped-pearl-oyster european-pearly-mussel giant-clam coquina-clam-zool-in-encyclopedia zebra-mussel yo-yo-clam giant-vent-clam northern-quahog pelecypoda-invertebrate-zoology brackish biomass benthic-oceanography sediment calcareous lamellibranchiata subclass ingestion upper-mantle-geology tactile stimulus scallop ligament hinge-plate horny crystalline lamella nacre mytilidae-invertebrate-zoology pteriidae-invertebrate-zoology iridescent chalk gaping adductor mantle-cavity particulate palp entrap septum ventral dilate retractor hinge clam sedentary dioecious sperm ovary planktonic-ecology metamorphosis pest-control lower-cambrian speciation brachiopoda mesozoic-era predatory arthropod ostreidae lamellibranchia-2 mollusca protobranchia septibranchia mollusk mussel cockle oyster shipworm phytoplankton cambrian ernst-haeckel kunstformen-der-natur infraclass stuffed-animal carolus-linnaeus 1758 heterodonta paleoheterodonta pteriomorphia cornishmussels-jpg cornwall jurassicmarineisrael-jpg gastropoda israel seashell symmetry species radula fauna byssus fossil dna-sequence paraphyly monophyly taxon arcoida