Invasive bivalve species, such as Mytilopsis sallei and Mytilopsis leucophaeata, have become a significant concern in various ecosystems around the world. These species can rapidly colonize new ...

Bivalve shells, particularly those of species like Mytilus edulis and Pecten maximus, serve as excellent proxies for this research due to their ability to record environmental changes over time.

“Some of them do really weird things with their shells, but there’s no bivalve without two shells.” We think that all bivalves have gills and generally they have a muscular foot, although in some ...

The shell is thick and oval-shaped ... contributes to their status as the longest-lived bivalve species. Ocean quahogs thrive in cold, nutrient-rich waters, particularly in the North Atlantic.

DESCRIPTION: Freshwater mussels are bivalve mollusks that have a two- valved hard shell, a soft body with respiratory ... RANGE: Worldwide, there are an estimated 1,000 species of freshwater mussels, ...