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    Bivalvia is the second largest class of molluscs, containing over 30,000 species. Bivalves have a shell consisting of two halves or valves, and are filter feeders that draw water into their mantle cavity using cilia. They are mostly sedentary and respiration occurs through gills containing lamellae that exchange gases. Bivalves are dioecious and undergo external fertilization, with larvae such as trochophores, veligers, and glochidia developing before maturing into adults.

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    Bivalvia is the second largest class of molluscs, containing over 30,000 species. Bivalves have a shell consisting of two halves or valves, and are filter feeders that draw water into their mantle cavity using cilia. They are mostly sedentary and respiration occurs through gills containing lamellae that exchange gases. Bivalves are dioecious and undergo external fertilization, with larvae such as trochophores, veligers, and glochidia developing before maturing into adults.

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    Class Bivalvia

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    Bivalvia is the second largest class of molluscs, containing over 30,000 species. Bivalves have a shell consisting of two halves or valves, and are filter feeders that draw water into their mantle cavity using cilia. They are mostly sedentary and respiration occurs through gills containing lamellae that exchange gases. Bivalves are dioecious and undergo external fertilization, with larvae such as trochophores, veligers, and glochidia developing before maturing into adults.

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    Class Bivalvia

    Second largest class


    30,000 species
    Shell consists of two halves
    Edible
    Pearl
    Filter feeders
    Shell and associated structures
    Valves
    Proteinaceous hinge
    Teeth
    Umbo
    Hinge ligament
    Adductor muscles for protection
    Pearl formation
    Nacre
    Pinctada margaririfera
    Respiration
    Sedentary and filter feeding
    Lamellae
    Inhalant and exhalant region
    Mechanism
    Cilia moves water into mantle cavity
    Small pores of the gills
    Water tubes where gases are exchanges
    Suprabranchial chamber
    Nutrition
    Gill trap food
    Then to mouth
    Pseudofaeces
    Digestion
    Food enter into esophagus
    Mucoid food string
    Cilia move it to the stomach
    Style sac
    Crystalline style
    Gastric shield
    Indigestible material into intestine
    Intracellular digestion
    Anus to outside
    Blood vascular system
    Blood from heart to sinuses, nephridia
    and gills
    Back to heart
    Oxygenation in mantle
    Aorta
    Excretion
    Two nephridia below pericardial cavity
    Nehridiopore
    Nervous system
    Three pairs of interconnected ganglia
    Near esophagus, foot, adductor muscle
    Sense organ
    Margin of mantle
    Complex eyes
    Eyes has a lens and cornea
    Statocysts
    Osphradium
    Reproduction
    Dioecious
    Some monoecious are protandric
    Gonads in visceral mass
    External fertilization
    Sperm enter mantle cavity through inhalant
    water
    Development
    Trochophore and veliger larvae
    Glochidium larvae
    Parasite on fishes
    Glochidium into adult
    Bivalve diversity
    Boring bivalves
    Surface dwelling bivalves
    Byssal threads

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