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Definition of Class 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
Literary usage of Class lamellibranchia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1906)
"... in it the characteristic organs that have given the name to the whole class
Lamellibranchia are so profoundly modified, that they differ much more from ..."
2. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"The class Lamellibranchia, so called from the form of the gills, comprises all
the fresh-water bivalve shells commonly called clams or mussels. ..."
3. Economic Zoology: An Introductory Text-book in Zoology, with Special by Herbert Osborn (1908)
"class lamellibranchia This class includes a large section of the mollusks, and
some of the most important of the entire group, such forms as the oyster, ..."
4. Morphology of Invertebrate Types by Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch (1916)
"Descriptive Part Venus mercenaria is a common representative of the Class
Lamellibranchia which comprises all bivalves. It lives in the mud, between tides, ..."
5. Geological Biology: An Introduction to the Geological History of Organisms by Henry Shaler Williams (1895)
"These organs—the gills, or mantle fringes—are present in all; but in the class
Lamellibranchia the function is not entirely respiratory, but is also partly ..."
6. Invertebrate Dissections by Henry Leslie Osborn (1895)
"... and the external facts easily demonstrated. CHAPTER VIII.—THE PHYLUM
MOLLUSCA (Shell-Fish). PART I.—class lamellibranchia (Mussels, Clams) UNIÓ* sp. ..."
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