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- noun Plural form of
pelecypod .
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Examples
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We walked about a while, and at least the broad expanse of shallow water created by the breakwaters to the south meant an environment amenable to a number of species of pelecypods (bivalve mollusks) I'd not yet seen on the state's beaches.
"Deep in your veins, I will not lie." greygirlbeast 2008
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There are also sponges in nodules and pectenoid pelecypods throughout the Kaibab formation of Parashant Canyon.
Proclamation On The Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument Clinton, Bill, 1946- 2000
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Among these are large numbers of invertebrate fossils, including bryozoans and brachiopods located in the Calville limestone of the Grand Wash Cliffs, and brachiopods, pelecypods, fenestrate bryozoa, and crinoid ossicles in the Toroweap and Kaibab formations of Whitmore Canyon.
Proclamation On The Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument Clinton, Bill, 1946- 2000
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Another characteristic of attached pelecypods is camerated structure, which is most frequent and extensive in the thick attached valve.
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The several types cited are from widely separated families of pelecypods, yet all, under the same given conditions, adopt a closely similar form, which is strong proof that common forces acting on all alike have induced the resulting form.
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The oyster may be taken as the type of the form adopted by attached pelecypods.
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This form, or a modification of it, we find to be characteristic of all pelecypods which are attached to a foreign object of support by the cementation of one valve.
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Sea lion are seen and it is assumed that humpback, Bryde’s, grey and killer whales, also bottlenose dolphins and spotted dolphins Stenella attenuata are present. 13 coral species, including the endemic Porites baueri, 249 gastropods and 30 pelecypods are recorded.
Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico 2008
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"The tendency to equalize the form of growth in a horizontal plane, or the geomalic tendency of Professor Hyatt, [262] is seen markedly in pelecypods.
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