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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

The oyster genome sequence and comprehensive transcriptome data provide valuable resources for studying molluscan biology and lophotrochozoan evolution, and for genetic improvement of oysters and other important aquaculture species.

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 Packard, A. S. (Alpheus Spring)