Digestive System

Of Bivalves
Bivalvia (/ˈbaɪvælviə/), in previous
centuries referred to as the
Lamellibranchiata and Pelecypoda,
is a class of marine and freshwater
molluscs that have laterally
compressed bodies enclosed by a
shell consisting of two hinged
parts.
The digestive tract of typical bivalves consists of an
oesophagus, stomach, and intestine.

A number of digestive glands open into the stomach,

often via a pair of diverticula; these secrete enzymes
to digest food in the stomach, but also include cells
that phagocytose food particles, and digest them
intracellularly.
 The digestive system and nutrition. …of extracellular
digestion is the crystalline style. It is rotated in its sac
by cilia; the head, projecting into the stomach, grinds
against a part of the stomach wall lined by a chitinous
gastric shield.

The gastric shield is permeated by microcanals which

transmit digestive enzymes from the stomach, and
serves to protect the cells of the stomach lining from
the abrasive effects of the style.