molluscan

• a word derived from mollusc.
  mollusc

  noun

  any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, having a soft unsegmented body and often a shell, secreted by a fold of skin (the mantle). The group includes the gastropods (snails, slugs, etc), bivalves (clams, mussels, etc), and cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopuses, etc)
• a word derived from mollusk.
  mollusk

  noun

  any invertebrate of the phylum Mollusca, typically having a calcareous shell of one, two, or more pieces that wholly or partly enclose the soft, unsegmented body, including the chitons, snails, bivalves, squids, and octopuses.

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molluscan

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

Two models have been advanced for molluscan shell formation.

From Nature ● Oct. 3, 2012

What a host of molluscan shells exist in every country and in all seas which elude our means of distinction, and exhaust our resources in this respect!

From Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

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