Talk:Bivalvia
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Dlloyd 10:09, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Added text from article I originally wrote in 1998 and published it on the Web....
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Dlloyd 00:42, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I think this article needs to include more bivalve anatomy. It's hard to think of these things without any head or body parts as relatives of snails and octopodes. What body parts make them up besides a mantle and a foot?
[edit] Spine
The article currently reads:
- Additionally, bivalves became mobile: some developed spines for buoyancy, while others suck in and eject water to enable propulsion.
The link being to spine (anatomy), which is actually a redirect to vertebral column, which is surely not what is intended! This needs to be changed, but to what I am not sure. --Iustinus 16:40, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
I noticed this too. I removed the link, since I don't know where it should point. I am curious how spines increased bouyancy, and it would be nice if someone could explain.
big ass? (see 1st sentence, 3rd paragraph) "Bivalves lack a radula and feed by siphoning and filtering big ass particles from water."
[edit] Images
- http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/historic/nmfs/figb0530.htm - Anatomy of oyster. --Snek01 00:53, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
