When these larvae attach to the long lines ... and probably aren't filled with sand and grit like their fellow bivalve mollusk, the clam. However, commercially farmed mussels typically go through ...

About 70 to 80 percent of semi-slugs carry the parasite and can carry at least twice as many nematode larvae per milligram as other mollusk species. Maui District Health Officer Dr. Lorrin Pang ...

To study the mollusk's early life stages ... his clam food was riddled with bacteria and he couldn't get the larvae to grow reliably. If he could, he reasoned, perhaps the state could someday ...

TPWD workers first found zebra mussel larvae in plankton samples at the lake in November 2024; they also discovered some larvae near a road bridge that crosses the lake, and the dam on the eastern ...

The mussels' distribution may be associated with the presence in local areas of host fish with mollusk larvae (glochidia) that feed on biological material on the gills before the maturation phase.

“Protecting the green floater under the Endangered Species Act will save this mollusk from extinction and also benefit ... Green floaters are unique among mussels because they can incubate their own ...