Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A series or suborder of coleopterous insects, in Sharp's system, including the older series Clavicornia and Serricornia.
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Examples
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& Rasmussen, J.B. “Impending extinctions of North American freshwater mussels (Unionida) following the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) invasion.”
Freshwater mussels in North America - factors affecting their endangerment and extinction 2009
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The zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) was introduced to North America in the early 1990s and has been spreading throughout the Mississippi river basin, which contains the largest number of endemic mussels in the world.
Freshwater mussels in North America - factors affecting their endangerment and extinction 2009
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D. polymorpha is a biofouling organism that smothers other mollusks and competes with other suspension feeders for food.
Freshwater mussels in North America - factors affecting their endangerment and extinction 2009
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Populations that had survived several decades of environmental degradation were wiped out within a few years of the D. polymorpha invasion in the Mississippi river basin.
Freshwater mussels in North America - factors affecting their endangerment and extinction 2009
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Still looking for my best pairing with Sensation – have mine with a Persicaria polymorpha – starting to look like a wrestling match.
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D. polymorpha impairs unionid metabolic activity and locomotion resulting in depleted energy and effectively starve them to death.
Freshwater mussels in North America - factors affecting their endangerment and extinction 2009
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Bamboo associates to the north are Melocanna bambusoides, Bambusa polymorpha, Cephalostachyum pergracile, and Bambusa tulda.
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Many invasive species have been introduced into new areas in this manner, including the zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha), pictured here.
Invasion fact sheet 2008
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A species 'arrival may be spectacular, as in the case of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) in the Great Lakes or the comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi in Europe, or it may go unnoticed in the absence of molecular tools and careful monitoring.
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Other species are Dinochloa m'clellandi, Oxytenanthera albo-ciliata, Bambusa tulda, Dendrocalamus longispathus, Cephalostachyum pergracile, and Bambusa polymorpha.
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