molluscan in English

adjective

[mol·lus·can || 'mɑləskən /'mɒ-]

of a mollusc, of the class of Mollusca

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1. They are uncommon in the tropical or subtropical molluscan faunas of the Tertiary.

2. Protozoans, monogeneans, digeneans, cestodes, nematodes, acanthocephalans, and a crustacean and a molluscan species occurred in the fish.

3. Arthropodan and molluscan hemocyanins form high-molecular aggregates which are markedly different in size and quaternary structure

4. The eye of Arthropod invertebrates is vastly different from the molluscan or vertebrate eye

5. Arthropodan and molluscan hemocyanins form high-molecular aggregates which are markedly different in size and quaternary structure

6. Unlike the other molluscan groups, Cephalopod evolution has concentrated not on a energetically conservative, defensive lifestyle but on mobility, dynamism, and intelligence

7. The erasure of shell growth we found has not previously been reported in the longstanding literature on molluscan growth.

8. 8 Currently accessible for searching are the recent mollusk files, the invertebrate paleontology files, the rotifer collection and Gary Rosenbergs molluscan species database etc.

9. Description: A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda (Greek plural κεφαλόποδα, kephalópoda; "head-feet") such as a squid, octopus, or nautilus.These exclusively marine animals are characterized by bilateral body symmetry, a prominent head, and a set of arms or tentacles (muscular hydrostats) modified from the primitive molluscan foot.

10. The molluscan class Cephalopoda--squids and octopuses being the most familiar examples--includes a remarkable diversity of tentacled marine predators that use a jet propulsion system to move through the water, in some cases very quickly.

11. Large Cardiid with a mainly West African distribution, whose inclusion in the European molluscan fauna (ter Poorten and Gofas 2012) is based only on a limited occurrence off the African coast of the westernmost Mediterranean

12. It is remarkable for the construction of a silken - thread - lined cabin of sticks , bits of leaves , chewed plant fibres , sand grains , small pebbles of selected sizes and mosaic of colours , even small molluscan shells , etc .

13. Aragonite and calcite are the two calcium carbonate polymorphs that give the shell of molluscan bivalves their strength and elasticity, due to the nano- and microstructural assembly of the overall architecture. Nacre, or mother of pearl, has not yet been identified as osteoinductive or osteointegrative.

14. Thanks to studies on molluscan nerve cells other than the squid giant axon, and to studies on mammalian nerve cells using patch clamp techniques, it has become clear that there are many other ionic Conductances beyond the two characterized by Hodgkin and Huxley.

15. Interestingly, the existence of Bivalved forms of gastropods, a shell form derived independently in Bivalvia, was a key point of evidence used to first recognise the extinct molluscan group Rostroconchia as a separate taxonomic class, as they also have a univalved larval shell but a Bivalved adult shell (Pojeta Jr et al