Sentence examples for tiny molluscs from inspiring English sources
"[Waders] are the gift to us of mud… the intertidal ooze at the edge of the sea is the richest in invertebrates of all habitats, able to hold in a single square metre thousands of tiny molluscs, crustaceans, marine snails and marine worms, and waders are linked to it inextricably".
It's not just the climate that they're here for; estuarine mud is crammed with nutritious food from tiny crustaceans to worms and tiny molluscs.
A tiny mollusc found on British shores may hold the secret to developing an "augmented version" of reality – a discovery that could potentially revolutionise the fledgling world of wearable apps such as Google Glass.
Apart from the array of tropical fish (parrot-, butterfly- and angel- varieties) Hev also shows us the more subtle forms of marine life, such as Christmas tree coral that recoils at the slightest touch, or tiny, brightly coloured molluscs.
When mating, these molluscs often fire tiny, limestone darts at each other as part of the preliminaries.Snail darts are covered with a secretion that closes off blind alleys in the egg-fertilising machinery of the dartee, ensuring the sperm of the darter goes to good use.
In contrast, lower molluscs, such as Aplysia, have tiny neuronal clusters between photoreceptors and the brain [ 13].
Some tiny Early Cambrian shells almost certainly belonged to molluscs, while the owners of some "armor plates," Halkieria and Microdictyon, were eventually identified when more complete specimens were found in Cambrian lagerstätten that preserved soft-bodied animals.
These molluscs feed on the algae growing on the surface of the mud, and include the tiny Hydrobia, an important food for waders because of its abundance at densities of more than 130,000 m−2.
He does this by encapsulating tiny lumps of the stuff in coatings made of fatty acids and putting the resulting "BioBullets" into the water flowing through pipes clogged by the molluscs.
Add the molluscs and return to a simmer.
