Bivalvia (/baɪˈvælviə/) or bivalves, in previous centuries referred to as the Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda, is a class of aquatic molluscs (marine...

A cockle is an edible marine bivalve mollusc. Although many small edible bivalves are loosely called cockles, true cockles are species in the family Cardiidae...

Freshwater bivalves are molluscs of the order Bivalvia that inhabit freshwater ecosystems. They are one of the two main groups of freshwater molluscs,...

States: Bivalve, Maryland Bivalve, New Jersey Bivalve, unincorporated community in Marin County, California All pages with titles beginning with Bivalve Bivalent...

Nothoscordum bivalve is a species of flowering plant in the Amaryllidaceae known by the common names crowpoison and false garlic. It is native to the...

defined, often most prominent, highest part of each valve of the shell of a bivalve or univalve mollusc. It usually contains the valve's beak, the oldest point...

Siliqua is a genus of saltwater razor clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Pharidae, the razor clams and jackknife clams. Species in the genus...

A bivalve shell is the enveloping exoskeleton or shell of a bivalve mollusc, composed of two hinged halves or valves. The two half-shells, called the...

Bivalve is an unincorporated community and census-designated place along the eastern shore of the lower Nanticoke River, near its mouth on the Chesapeake...

Icelandic Shelf in a 1357-year proxy archive based on growth increments in the bivalve Arctica islandica". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology....

Megalodon is an extinct genus of bivalve molluscs that reportedly lived from the Devonian to the Jurassic period. It is not clear, however, that all the...

Hymenophyllum bivalve is a species of filmy fern. It is found in moist, sheltered areas in or near mountain rainforests in Australia and New Zealand....

Pojetaia are regarded as bivalves. "Modern-looking" bivalves appeared in the Ordovician period, 488 to 443 million years ago. One bivalve group, the rudists...

Tristagma bivalve is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaryllidaceae. It is a perennial herb endemic to Chile, where it is distributed between...

The beak is part of the shell of a bivalve mollusk, i.e. part of the shell of a saltwater or freshwater clam. The beak is the basal projection of the...

anatomical structure of the inner surface of a bivalve shell, i.e. the shell of a bivalve mollusk. Bivalves by definition have two valves, which are joined...

Abutilon bivalve is a species of flowering plant (among the Malvales) in the Malvaceae family, a shrub (or subshrub) ranging from Mexico to northern Argentina...

euspira heros a large moon snail Note that the common names of edible bivalves can be misleading, in that not all species known as "cockles" "oysters"...

The adductor muscles are the main muscular system in bivalve mollusks (e.g. in clams, scallops, mussels, oysters, etc.). In many parts of the world, when...

Fimbria is a genus of marine bivalve molluscs in the family Lucinidae. Fimbria contains two living species, Fimbria fimbriata and Fimbria soverbii. Several...

Rudists are a group of extinct box-, tube- or ring-shaped marine heterodont bivalves belonging to the order Hippuritida that arose during the Late Jurassic...

Irus is a genus of saltwater clams, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Veneridae, the venus clams. Species recognized as of October 2021: Irus carditoides...

genus of medium to large-sized edible, mainly saltwater mussels, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae. Mussels have a gray to blue-purple, fully...

Unio is a genus of medium-sized freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. They are found throughout Europe...

Hypanis is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Cardiidae. The species of this genus are found at Black Sea. Species: Hypanis andrussowi (Kolesnikov...

Rangia is a genus of bivalve molluscs or clams in the subfamily Mactrinae of the family Mactridae. There are three species: Rangia cuneata (G. B. Sowerby...

Tapes is a genus of bivalves belonging to the subfamily Tapetinae of the family Veneridae. Tapes albomarginata Preston, 1908 Tapes araneosus (Philippi...

Monia is a genus of bivalves belonging to the family Anomiidae. The species of this genus are found in Europe, Japan and Australia. Species: Anomia alterans...

found in the exterior surface of the shells of some species of clams, bivalve mollusks, as for example in the family Veneridae and in the genus Ascetoaxinus...

part of the anatomical structure of a bivalve shell, i.e. the shell of a bivalve mollusk. The shell of a bivalve has two valves and these are joined by...