Sentence examples for live mollusks from inspiring English sources

At outdoor entrance stands, small live mollusks and crustaceans bubble and sizzle in running aerated water, and piles of gnarled octopus look like so much amethyst quartz.

A team will collect live mollusks for tissue analysis, examine their shells for changes in growth rates, and look for deformities in the husks of foraminifera, an amoebalike bottom-dweller, and for large numbers of hibernating dinoflagellates in the soil.

The figure is again reproduced in Encyclopedia Britannica (Ayala 2008) and in Ayala (2007), with a caption stating "Steps in the evolution of eye complexity in living mollusks.

In further contrast, the species-level identity of South American fossil and living mollusks at Bahia Blanca showed persistence of invertebrate species throughout the entire interval a pattern Darwin had first observed at Santiago in the Cap de Verde Islands.

The Eocene contained about 3 percent of the living mollusk species, the Miocene about 20 percent, the older Pliocene more than one-third and often over 50 percent, and the newer Pliocene about 90 percent.

The control system has been designed based on physiological specificities of live bivalve mollusks.

Do not collect live, endangered mollusks by any means!

The shock of consuming a living mollusk, with its hint of the ocean, is lost.

b Five common Mediterranean living mollusk species.

One of nature's rarest items, a pearl is produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk.

Finfoots live largely on mollusks, frogs, and small fish.