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The Puget Sound nearshore is home to an abundance of oysters, clams, mussels and other bivalve molluscan shellfish.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
“This is not a particularly old fossil in the context of molluscan evolution,” she said.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 6, 2017
Trematodes have complex lifecycles involving a molluscan secondary host and a primary host in which sexual reproduction takes place.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Crassostrea gigas is also an interesting model for developmental biology owing to its mosaic development with typical molluscan stages, including trochophore and veliger larvae and metamorphosis.
From Nature ● Oct. 3, 2012
The glassy appearance of the body suggests the shiny shells of a small coiled molluscan whose dead fragments occurred in some numbers in the same situations.
From Journal of Entomology and Zoology Volume 11, Number 4, December 1919 by Charles P. Alexander
