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Escutcheon :: Escutcheon (n.) The depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area.

Ostracoidea :: Ostracoidea (n. pl.) An order of Entomostraca possessing hard bivalve shells. They are of small size, and swim freely about..

Bojanus Organ :: Bojanus organ () A glandular organ of bivalve mollusca, serving in part as a kidney..

Siphonata :: Siphonata (n. pl.) A tribe of bivalve mollusks in which the posterior mantle border is prolonged into two tubes or siphons. Called also Siphoniata. See Siphon, 2 (a), and Quahaug..

Valve :: Valve (n.) One of the pieces or divisions of bivalve or multivalve shells.

Spat :: Spat (n.) A young oyster or other bivalve mollusk, both before and after it first becomes adherent, or such young, collectively..

Lithodome :: Lithodome (n.) Any one of several species of bivalves, which form holes in limestone, in which they live; esp., any species of the genus Lithodomus..

Anodon :: Anodon (n.) A genus of fresh-water bivalves, having no teeth at the hinge..

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) One of a pair of shelly plates that protect the siphon tubes of certain bivalves, as the Teredo. See Illust. of Teredo..

Tridacna :: Tridacna (n.) A genus of very large marine bivalve shells found on the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species (T. gigas) often weighs four or five hundred pounds, and is sometimes used for baptismal fonts. Called also paw shell, and fountain shell..

Tubivalve :: Tubivalve (n.) A shell or tube formed by an annelid, as a serpula..

Teredo :: Teredo (n.) A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in App..

Mussel :: Mussel (n.) Any one of many species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Mytilus, and related genera, of the family Mytidae. The common mussel (Mytilus edulis; see Illust. under Byssus), and the larger, or horse, mussel (Modiola modiolus), inhabiting the shores both of Europe and America, are edible. The former is extensively used as food in Europe..

Siphon :: Siphon (n.) One of the tubes or folds of the mantle border of a bivalve or gastropod mollusk by which water is conducted into the gill cavity. See Illust. under Mya, and Lamellibranchiata..

Bear''s-paw :: Bear's-paw (n.) A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament..

Plate-gilled :: Plate-gilled (a.) Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks..

Asiphonate :: Asiphonate (a.) Destitute of a siphon or breathing tube; -- said of many bivalve shells.

Heteromyaria :: Heteromyaria (n. pl.) A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus..

Tellina :: Tellina (n.) A genus of marine bivalve mollusks having thin, delicate, and often handsomely colored shells..

Trigonia :: Trigonia (n.) A genus of pearly bivalve shells, numerous extinct species of which are characteristic of the Mesozoic rocks. A few living species exist on the coast of Australia..

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