#Bivalve
Detail from the right panel (Hell) of the famous triptych painting, The Garden of Earthly Delights, by the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch.
#ArtSky #Bosch
November 18, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Estuarine bivalve metabolic response mediated by environmental drivers @peerj.bsky.social
Estuarine bivalve metabolic response mediated by environmental drivers
Humans are rapidly modifying environmental conditions in estuaries, which are among Earth’s most productive and dynamic ecosystems. Bivalve molluscs are key estuarine organisms, contributing to range of ecosystem functions and services, though human-induced environmental changes are affecting their behaviour, physiology, and fitness with implications at individual, population, community, and ecosystem levels. Understanding how estuarine bivalves respond and adapt to different environmental drivers will enable us to better predict change at multiple levels of biological organisation. In this study, we investigated the metabolites of a common and ecological important suspension-feeding bivalve in New Zealand, the cockle, Austrovenus stutchburyi. At seven of eight pre-established monitoring sites in a North Island estuary, we evaluated differences in cockle metabolite abundance, diversity, and composition, as well as relationships between cockle metabolites and environmental conditions. Our findings revealed differences in the abundance and diversity of cockle metabolites across sites, particularly in the metabolites alanine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, glycine, proline, and succinic acid. The differences in metabolites across sites were mediated by the site-specific environmental conditions, in particular, the sediment’s mud content and organic matter. Differences in metabolites were most pronounced when comparing sites close to freshwater inputs versus sites located closer to the estuary mouth. In general, Austrovenus metabolite abundance was higher at sites with less signs of stress (i.e., close to the estuary mouth) and lower in sites with with higher mud content (i.e., close to freshwater inputs), while the metabolite diversity followed an inverse pattern. The metabolic responses of cockles appeared to be linked to processes such as feeding, oxygen regulation, and energy allocation. The observed metabolic trends highlight the complex interactions between cockles and their environment and provide insights into the metabolic responses of bivalves to the rapidly changing environment.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:42 AM
biblically accurate bivalve
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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November 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I think I figured it out

A hermit crab of some kind using half of a bivalve shell like a pipi as a home
I'm in love with this scuttling rage pancake
November 15, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The growth and production of Gafrarium tumidum (Roding) (Bivalve) in the littoral zone of Chiang-Mei, Penghu
The growth and production of Gafrarium tumidum (Roding) (Bivalve) in the littoral zone of Chiang-Mei, Penghu
In a flat beach of Penghu, the dominant intertidal bivalve, G. tumidum displayed a discontinuous growth pattern, growing in the summer and ceasing in the winter. The growth equation of shell length was expressed in years. This species produ...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I now know that there is a #freshwater bivalve in #Alberta that is called a fatmucket, and that made my day!
Credit: @inaturalist.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Un parfait exemple de ALT inutile dans ce skeet très illustré.

"Coquillages bivalve à coquilles peu striées, grossièrement triangulaires, de couleur jaune - beige avec des motifs en forme de petite graffitis anguleux de couleur rouge - brun qui peuvent évoquer une écriture"
-Moi lisant un papier de conchyliologie: "Lioconcha hieroglyphica, ce bivalve dont les motifs évoquent une écriture cunéiforme ancienne".
Ahah, "évoquent"... pauvres naïfs, ignorants.
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Who doesn’t love a bivalve masquerading as a snail? 😍
November 13, 2025 at 6:11 AM
@sixftjamie.bsky.social I don't know if you know it, but I'll bet you love bivalve clams that live like snails. A truly bizarre form of convergent evolution. Nature does good work, and like me, often goes completely off script. :)
Another not-clam fact: Juliidae snails have a hinged shell like clams, entirely by convergent evolution! For ~100 yrs they were only known from fossils and assumed to be clams! The commonality of the hinged form makes me hope there are clamlike aliens out there, waiting to make 1st contact (240)
November 13, 2025 at 5:24 AM
On windy days when a trip to the reef is out and I still need to get salty I’ve started taking pics of all the insane life growing right under foot on the dock pilings. Maybe one day I will actually do something with these
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 AM
-Moi lisant un papier de conchyliologie: "Lioconcha hieroglyphica, ce bivalve dont les motifs évoquent une écriture cunéiforme ancienne".
Ahah, "évoquent"... pauvres naïfs, ignorants.
November 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
o dia do bivalve? eu entrei tantos níveis na árvore sem achar o nome que pensei que tinha descoberto uma espécie nova.
November 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
cockles are a type of bivalve we get on our coasts. apparently people pickle them!
November 10, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Dr. Claire Gonzales's second dissertation chapter is officially published! She explored the co-location suitability potential of bivalve #aquaculture (mussels) with clean energy (wind & wave) and wild capture fisheries across the California coast. Check it out: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This little bivalve larva is having a rummage about, using its foot to pull itself along.
#marineplankton 🦑
November 10, 2025 at 8:22 AM
#MolluscMonday Balanced on a wall beneath the ice-cream parlour at Aubeterre (Charente, France) is a fossil of the large rudist bivalve Hippurites, probably collected from a local field underlain by Campanian limestones.
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
EU GOSTEI TBM SO Q NOSSA ISSO NEM É NOME DE ESPÉCIE É MT ESTÚPIDO EU FIQUEI CITANDO UM MONTE DE BIVALVE E ALGUNS DELES NEM TAVAM NO BANCO DE DADOS
PRA DAÍ ESSE DAI SER A RESPOSTA
TO REVOLTADO 😭
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
🚨 Special Marine Warning issued November 9 at 9:56PM EST until November 9 at 10:30PM EST by NWS Baltimore MD/Washington DC 🚨
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November 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
🚨 Special Marine Warning issued November 9 at 9:57PM EST until November 9 at 11:00PM EST by NWS Baltimore MD/Washington DC 🚨
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November 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Marine Weather Statement issued November 9 at 9:43PM EST by NWS Mount Holly NJ
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November 10, 2025 at 2:45 AM
🚨 Special Marine Warning issued November 9 at 9:29PM EST until November 9 at 11:00PM EST by NWS Baltimore MD/Washington DC 🚨
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November 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
🚨 Special Marine Warning issued November 9 at 9:03PM EST until November 9 at 11:00PM EST by NWS Baltimore MD/Washington DC 🚨
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November 10, 2025 at 2:15 AM
One of my favorite marine snails on the Georgia coast, the knobbed whelk (Busycon carica), a bivalve-killing predator that lives in sandy shallow-marine environments, but is occasionally seen buried (by its burrowing) in intertidal zones. 🧪🌊🐌
November 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Laissez ami bivalve, et profitez
November 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM