Bivalves Flashcards

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Bivalve Respiration

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Bipectinate gills
Large
Excurrent and incurrent siphons to direct water in and out

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Bivalvia: labial palps

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Initial sorters of food to either mouth or other exit

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Bivalvia Circulation

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Open system

Chambered heart

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Bivalvia Taxonomy

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SubCl. Protobranchia
SubCl. Anomalodesmata 
Lamellabranchs
- SubCl. Pterimorphia 
- SubCl. Paleoheterodonta
- SubCl. Heterodonta
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SubCl. Protobranchia

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Primitive gill: multiple sheets
Bipectinate gills
Collection of cilia
- frontal cilia: clean out
- lateral cilia: move water
- frontal-lateral cilia: feed
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SubCl. Anomalodesmata

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Lack hinge teeth
Marine to estuary
Intertidal to abyssal

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SubCl. Anomalodesmata: septibranch gill

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Reduced gill: flaps or valves

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SubCl. Anomalodesmata: feeding

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Feed like vacuum
Create suction with muscles
Feed on small animals

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Lamellabranchs

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  • SubCl. Pterimorphia
  • SubCl. Paleoheterodonta
  • SubCl. Heterodonta
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10
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Lamellabranchs: gill

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Sheet-like, prominent, cilia-lined
Incurrent and excurrent chambers
Afferent and efferent blood vessels

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Lamellabranchs: gill morphologies

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  1. Filibranch gill- unfused

2. Eulamellabranch gill- fused; closed off for more restrictive flow in order to target water

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Lamellabranchs: gill and food

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Cilia capture food and send to food groove then labial palp to sort to mouth or exit

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13
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Lamellabranchs: digestion

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Crystalline style
Style sac
Gastric shiel

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Crystalline style

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Solid rod of digestive enzymes that rotates and grinds food against shiel

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15
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Lamellabranchs: diverticula

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Glands allow for slower digestion

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16
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Lamellabranch: attachment

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Cement permanently using byssal

17
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SubCl. Pterimorphia

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Mussels
Oysters
Scallops
Form eyes sometimes

18
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Osphradium

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Detects water smells

19
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SubCl. Paleoheterodonta

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Unio: freshwater clam
Glochidia larvae
Brooding reproduction: release sperm but not eggs

20
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SubCl. Paleoheterodonta: Glochidia Larvae

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Have jaws to attach to something to move to new spot

21
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SubCl. Heterodonta

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Quahog
Zebra mussels
Giant Clams