Bivalves

Among Mollusks, the lower Bivalves, that is, the Brachiopods and Bryozoa, still prevailed, while Ammonites continued to be very numerous, differing from the earlier ones chiefly in the ever-increasing complications of their inner partitions, which become so deeply involuted and cut upon their margins, before the type disappears, as to make an intricate tracery of very various patterns on the surface of these shells.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

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Bivalves in the C&O Canal AYDIN 2009

This spring I heard P&J's Sal Sunseri (pictured at right) speak at the "Shucking and Jiving with Oysters" panel during "The Tennessee Williams Festival Celebrates the Best of the Bivalves," and he was an enthusiastic evangelist for the quality of fresh Gulf Coast oysters.

Karen Dalton-Beninato: The End of an Era: Gulf Coast Oyster Supplier Shuts Down 2010

This spring I heard P&J's Sal Sunseri (pictured at right) speak at the "Shucking and Jiving with Oysters" panel during "The Tennessee Williams Festival Celebrates the Best of the Bivalves," and he was an enthusiastic evangelist for the quality of fresh Gulf Coast oysters.

Karen Dalton-Beninato: The End of an Era: Gulf Coast Oyster Supplier Shuts Down 2010

Bytown Bivalves fig. a: l-r: taps, oysters, turntable

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

Bytown Bivalves fig. a: l-r: taps, oysters, turntable

Bytown Bivalves 2009

Bivalves are the clams and mussels of our freshwater lakes.

Mollusca 2007

Bivalves survive on anaerobic respiration when out of water.

Mollusca 2007

Bivalves belonging to the Superfamily Unionacea are the most prevalent, aided in distribution by their larvae which are parasites on fish.

Mollusca 2007

Bivalves do have veins and arteries that branch out, but they simply empty into open cavities instead of the capillary beds.

Mollusca 2007