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What is two shell halves?
The meaning of bivalve.
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What is stomach foot?
The meaning of the name gastropod.
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What is a scallop?
This shell is a belongs to a creature that swims and is a member of the bivalve group. It's shell is raised and has wavy ridges.
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What are shellfish?
The name for Mollusks.
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What are siphon tubes?
The name of the tubes that extend out of the partly open shells.
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What is the radula?
The organ that is jagged and drills holes in shells.
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What is the conch?
The creature of this type of shell produces the biggest and most beautiful shells.
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What is the mantle?
The organ in the mollusk's body that makes shells.
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What is a clam?
The bivalve that burrows into the sand and leaves a little hole to breathe.
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What is the operculum?
The name of the organ that operates like a door.
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What is a whelk?
This shell type is often mistaken for the conch.
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What are bivalves and gastropods?
The two groups that are in the Phylum Mollusca (Mollusks).
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What is a shipworm.
The type of bivalve that burrows into wooden things such as ships and piers.
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What is the foot (pod)?
The location of the operculum.
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What is the winkle or periwinkle.
This shell is spiraled, like an ice cream cone.
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What is a mollusk?
Soft slimy creatures with squishy bodies.
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What are byssal threads?
The tough fibers bivalves use to attach to surfaces.
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What is the wentletrap?
This shell looks like a spiral staircase.
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