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Definition of Lamellibranchia
1. Noun. Oysters; clams; scallops; mussels.
Group relationships: Mollusca, Phylum Mollusca
Member holonyms: Bivalve, Lamellibranch, Pelecypod, Spat, Myaceae, Order Myaceae, Family Tridacnidae, Tridacnidae, Cardiidae, Family Cardiidae, Family Ostreidae, Ostreidae, Family Pteriidae, Pteriidae, Anomiidae, Family Anomiidae, Genus Placuna, Placuna, Arcidae, Family Arcidae, Family Mytilidae, Mytilidae, Family Unionidae, Unionidae, Family Pectinidae, Pectinidae, Family Teredinidae, Teredinidae, Family Pholadidae, Pholadidae
Generic synonyms: Class
Definition of Lamellibranchia
1. n. pl. A class of Mollusca including all those that have bivalve shells, as the clams, oysters, mussels, etc.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lamellibranchia
Literary usage of Lamellibranchia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1900)
"16 ; and pro- * We have, chiefly for practical reasons, placed the Lamellibranchia
before the Gastropoda, because their larval forms appear to be more ..."
2. Text-book of Comparative Anatomy by Arnold Lang, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1896)
"C. Lamellibranchia. The general arrangement of the organs in the mantle cavity
of the Lamellibranchia lias already been described. ..."
3. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1906)
"CHAPTER V THE Lamellibranchia CLASS IV.—THE Lamellibranchia, BLAINVILLE ...
The Lamellibranchia are Molluscs with an internal and external symmetry. ..."
4. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1879)
"... Arch. Z. expér. vi. p. 128, p). v. figs. 1 & 2, St. Paul Island. Lamellibranchia.
Anatomical descriptions of the structure of the gills, ..."
5. Pectens by William John Dakin, Liverpool Marine Biology Committee (1909)
"... —Lamellibranchia possessing gills with flat and non-reflected filaments disposed
in two rows on opposite sides of the branchial axis. ..."
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