Sentence examples for small mollusks from inspiring English sources

Some small mollusks and flatworms crawl using cilia on the underside of the body.

Lobsters scavenge for dead animals but also eat live fish, small mollusks and other bottom-dwelling invertebrates, and seaweed.

Small mollusks and other small shelly fossils, mostly of problematic affinities, have been employed for biostratigraphy in the Tommotian Stage (a Russian designation for the pretrilobite portion of the Cambrian explosion), but their utility is also limited by endemism.

Small crustaceans, including more than 100 species of minute copepods, form the bulk of the animal life, followed by small mollusks, jellyfish, and polyps, and other invertebrate animals ranging from single-celled radiolaria to large Portuguese man-of-war, the tentacles of which may reach a length of some 165 feet (50 metres).

"The mussels, syringes, crabs, condoms - this is dirty," Mr. O'Brien said, standing in stagnant black groundwater up to his thighs and pointing around at the bits of city trash, small mollusks and dead crustaceans stuck to the brown and white clumps of algae on the walls.

The bluespotted stingray preys on many fish and small mollusks, but is also preyed on by the orca and hammer head shark.

Nudibranchs are small, little mollusk without a shell that crawl around, and they happened to be very bad tasting.

The only way to produce this specific color was to extract it from a small mollusk found near the ancient Phoenician city of Tyre (situated in present-day Lebanon).

Texas raised singer, songwriter and actress Starr Busby takes storytelling to auditory heights with her performance at Little Theater which explores the deep sea from the perspective of a small mollusk through sound loops, voice and and performance.

Yet small fish, mollusks and crustaceans, as well as plankton and phytoplankton, can absorb radiation, said Poston.

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.