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Univalve  n.  (Zool.) A shell consisting of one valve only; a mollusk whose shell is composed of a single piece, as the snails and conchs. Note: Most univalves are spiral and are the shells of gastropods, but many belong to cephalopods and pteropods. A large number of univalves belonging to the gastropods are conical, cup-shaped, or shieldlike, as the limpets.





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... be unable to detect any signs of stratification or of successive deposition, if particular kinds of fossils did not occur here and there at certain depths in the mass. At one level, for example, univalve shells of some one or more species predominate; at another, bivalve shells; and at a third, corals; while in some formations we find layers of vegetable matter, commonly derived from ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell


Words linked to "Univalve" :   solenogaster, seasnail, freshwater limpet, sea slug, Gastropoda, zoological science, zoology, Ancylus fluviatilis, mollusk, nudibranch, mollusc, class Gasteropoda, bubble shell, shellfish, abalone, bivalve, physa


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