Bivalves Flashcards
Bivalve Respiration
Bipectinate gills
Large
Excurrent and incurrent siphons to direct water in and out
Bivalvia: labial palps
Initial sorters of food to either mouth or other exit
Bivalvia Circulation
Open system
Chambered heart
Bivalvia Taxonomy
SubCl. Protobranchia SubCl. Anomalodesmata Lamellabranchs - SubCl. Pterimorphia - SubCl. Paleoheterodonta - SubCl. Heterodonta
SubCl. Protobranchia
Primitive gill: multiple sheets Bipectinate gills Collection of cilia - frontal cilia: clean out - lateral cilia: move water - frontal-lateral cilia: feed
SubCl. Anomalodesmata
Lack hinge teeth
Marine to estuary
Intertidal to abyssal
SubCl. Anomalodesmata: septibranch gill
Reduced gill: flaps or valves
SubCl. Anomalodesmata: feeding
Feed like vacuum
Create suction with muscles
Feed on small animals
Lamellabranchs
- SubCl. Pterimorphia
- SubCl. Paleoheterodonta
- SubCl. Heterodonta
Lamellabranchs: gill
Sheet-like, prominent, cilia-lined
Incurrent and excurrent chambers
Afferent and efferent blood vessels
Lamellabranchs: gill morphologies
- Filibranch gill- unfused
2. Eulamellabranch gill- fused; closed off for more restrictive flow in order to target water
Lamellabranchs: gill and food
Cilia capture food and send to food groove then labial palp to sort to mouth or exit
Lamellabranchs: digestion
Crystalline style
Style sac
Gastric shiel
Crystalline style
Solid rod of digestive enzymes that rotates and grinds food against shiel
Lamellabranchs: diverticula
Glands allow for slower digestion