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What Bivalves Are Grouped In Beds?
Bivalves commonly found grouped in beds include mussels, clams, oysters, and scallops. These bivalves often aggregate together for protection, reproduction, and access to food sources, creating dense beds or reefs that provide important habitat for other marine organisms.
What eats bivalves?
Bivalves are eaten by a variety of predators in aquatic ecosystems, including fish, crabs, sea stars, birds, and some marine mammals like otters. These animals have adapted to crack open the shells of bivalves to access the nutritious soft tissues inside.
Are bivalves carnivores?
No, Bivalves are not toxic. Bivalves are any kind of animal with two shells, like a clam or mollusk. They cannot bite you, or sting you. If you do not cook them when you eat them, you will get food poisoning.
Why are bivalves the preferred food of starfish?
Starfish are adapted to feed on bivalves due to their ability to pry open the shells with their tube feet and stomach evert and digest the soft tissues inside. Bivalves represent a food source that is easily accessible and provides a nutrient-rich meal for starfish.
Do clams care for their young?
No, clams do not care for their young. In these bivalves, the eggs are not even kept by the parent or parents. They are "cast to the wind" or, more correctly, into the ocean, lake or river currents, depending on which species they are. They become tiny free-swimming creatures in most cases, and then find a place to settle and turn into the bivalve with which we are familiar. Needless to say, many of the clams in their free-swimming form do not survive, but become food for other ocean creatures. Links can be found below.
What are some examples of bivalves?
clams and cuttlefish
What are 2 types of bivalves?
Mussels and clams.
What kind of mollusk includes clams?
Clams are bivalves
What kind of mollusk includes clams and oysters?
bivalves
How do you use bivalves in a sentence?
Bivalves are a class of mollusks consisting of over 15,000 species of clams, oysters, mussels, and scallops. A sample sentence is "Bivalves like clams use pressure to produce pearls within their shells. "
What does the knobbed whelk eat?
Oysters, clams, and other bivalves.
What eat the knobbed whelk?
Oysters, clams, and other bivalves.
Which kind of mollusk uncludes clams and oysters?
The kind of mollusk includes clams and oysters is called bivalves.
What animals that has a pair of hard shells?
Bivalves ( clams. mussels, scallops)
What animals clean pollutants out of the water?
Certain bivalves, such as mussels and clams.
In what group is the clams and scallops classified?
They are classified as Bivalves, however that is just the class
How many different clam are?
If by clams, you mean all Bivalves, then there are 30,000 species.
