File:Glycymeris undata (Atlantic bittersweet clam) (St. Thomas, Virgin Islands) 3.jpg

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English: Glycymeris undata (Linnaeus, 1758) - Atlantic bittersweet clam shell from the Virgin Islands.

Bivalves are bilaterally symmetrical molluscs having two calcareous, asymmetrical shells (valves) - they include the clams, oysters, and scallops. In most bivalves, the two shells are mirror images of each other (the major exception is the oysters). They occur in marine, estuarine, and freshwater environments. Bivalves are also known as pelecypods and lamellibranchiates.

Bivalves are sessile, benthic organisms - they occur on or below substrates. Most of them are filter-feeders, using siphons to bring in water, filter the water for tiny particles of food, then expel the used water. The majority of bivalves are infaunal - they burrow into unlithified sediments. In hard substrate environments, some forms make borings, in which the bivalve lives. Some groups are hard substrate encrusters, using a mineral cement to attach to rocks, shells, or wood.

The fossil record of bivalves is Cambrian to Recent. They are especially common in the post-Paleozoic fossil record.

The Atlantic bittersweet clam is a glycymeridid, a group of infaunal, filter-feeding bivalves that occur in sandy substrates.

Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pteriomorphia, Arcida, Glycymerididae

Locality: Brewers Bay, St. Thomas, western Virgin Islands

See info. at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycymeris and

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycymeris_undata
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