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Univalve – Having the shell composed of a single piece, as a snail. [1] Varicose – Swollen or enlarged. [1] Vascular – Containing or made up of blood vessels. [1] Vermiform – Formed like a worm. [1] Ventral – The lower border or side. [1] Ventricose – Swollen or inflated on the ventral side. [1] Vibratile – Moving from side to ...
The earlier name "univalve" means one valve (or shell), in contrast to bivalves, such as clams, which have two valves or shells. Diversity.
The great majority of shelled gastropods or snails have a shell in one part, hence the older name "univalve". The gastropod operculum, when present, even when it is composed mostly of calcium carbonate, is not considered to be a valve.
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Molluscus is used in classical Latin as an adjective only with nux (nut) to describe a particular type of soft nut. The use of mollusca in biological taxonomy by Jonston and later Linnaeus may have been influenced by Aristotle 's τὰ μαλάκια ta malákia (the soft ones; < μαλακός malakós "soft"), which he applied inter alia to ...
Melo amphora moving across coral at low tide. In some (but not all) sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs, the animal has an anterior extension of the mantle called a siphon, or inhalant siphon, through which water is drawn into the mantle cavity and over the gill for respiration.
Mixed seafood in Dubai; oysters are at the edge of the tray. Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats.
In linear algebra, the adjugate or classical adjoint of a square matrix A, adj(A), is the transpose of its cofactor matrix. [1] [2] It is occasionally known as adjunct matrix, [3] [4] or "adjoint", [5] though that normally refers to a different concept, the adjoint operator which for a matrix is the conjugate transpose.