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"Pelecypod" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had now become very abundant. The two valves of the brachiopod shell are unequal in size, and in each valve a line drawn from the beak to the base divides the valve into two equal parts. It may thus be told from the pelecypod mollusk, such as the clam, whose two valves are not far from equal in size, each being divided into unequal parts by a line dropped from ...
— The Elements of Geology • William Harmon Norton |
Words linked to "Pelecypod" : escallop, bivalved, lamellibranch, mussel, scollop, cockle, bivalve, pelecypodous, Bivalvia, mollusk, piddock, shellfish, oyster, class Bivalvia, clam, scallop, class Lamellibranchia, mollusc, blood clam, ark shell, Lamellibranchia |
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