The glochidium (plural glochidia) is a microscopic larval stage of some freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the families Unionidae and Margaritiferidae...

trochophore Certain molluscs veliger Mollusca: freshwater Bivalvia (mussels) glochidium Arthropoda: †Trilobita protaspis (unjointed), meraspis (increasing number...

Protocotyle euzetmaillardi Pseudorhabdosynochus spp. Cancellaria cooperii Glochidium Pyramidellidae †Platyceratidae Cookiecutter shark Candiru (vampire fish...

Drawing of the glochidium larva of the swan mussel...

covering of spines. Some cacti have also glochids (or glochidia, singular glochidium) – a particular kind of spine of different origin, which are smaller and...

Glochids or glochidia (sg.: "glochidium") are hair-like spines or short prickles, generally barbed, found on the areoles of cacti in the sub-family Opuntioideae...

siphon. After fertilization, the eggs develop into a larval stage called a glochidium (plural glochidia), which temporarily parasitizes fish, attaching themselves...

Podbaba. United Kingdom – ?[citation needed] The fish hosts for the glochidium larvae of this species are: Salaria fluviatilis, Gambusia holbrooki, Acipenser...

order, they go through a larval stage that is parasitic on fish (see glochidium). The classification recognized by Banarescu (1995) uses three subfamilies...

Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona. The name comes from the Greek tri- and glochidium, meaning "three glochids." Although it is favored by hummingbirds for...

iridescent. Nepionic – The second stage of the embryonic shell, as the glochidium. Notched – Nicked or indented, as the anterior canal of some gastropods...

begins as an egg within the gills of the female elliptio, matures into a glochidium, attaches itself to a host fish species and then becomes a juvenile mussel...

worldwide; like all unionid mussels, it has an obligatory parasitic stage (glochidium), in which the larva must encyst on a host fish to complete its development...

This usually occurs between 16 and 45 days During reproduction, the glochidium attaches to the gills or fins of a fish to complete its development. The...

of fishes, but sometimes amphibians. In Westralunio carteri, a mature glochidium is equipped with a pair of interlocking 'larval teeth' on opposing valves;...

creekshell has a complex life history involving a larval stage known as a glochidium which attaches itself to the gill, fin or skin of a suitable host fish...

"Studies on the anatomy of Indian Mollusca No. 2. The marsupium and glochidium of some Unionidae and on the Indian species hitherto assigned to the genus...

ISBN 5-85382-126-1. Nezlin L.; Cunjak R.; Zotin A.; Ziuganov V. (1994). "Glochidium morphology of the freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera)...

into larvae called (glochidia) and are discharged into the water. The glochidium lodges in the gills of a host fish, such as black bass and walleye. After...