lampshells in English
noun
1
a marine invertebrate that superficially resembles a bivalve mollusk but has two or more arms of ciliated tentacles (lophophores) that are extended for filter feeding. Lamp shells are common as fossils.
Brachiopods - lampshells - for instance, have remained virtually unchanged since they first appeared in the Cambrian Period, more than 500 million years ago.
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1. Brachiopods, or lampshells, are sessile animals enclosed in a bivalved shell
2. Brachiopods are a phylum of small marine shellfish, sometimes called lampshells
3. Brachiopoda (lampshells) A phylum of solitary, benthic, marine, bivalved, coelomate, invertebrate animals that have existed from the Lower Cambrian to the present day.
4. Brachiopods, or lampshells, are a phylum of small marine animals with a two-valved shell that, at first glance, resemble bivalved mollusks such as clams