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On The Primitive Significance of the Byssus in the Bivalvia and its Effects in Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

C. M. Yonge
C. M. Yonge
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From the Department of Zoology, University of Glasgow
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Extract

The byssal apparatus appears during post-larval life when its secretion permits brief attachment during metamorphosis when the animal assumes the form which fits it for life in the adult habitat.

The byssus persists for continued temporary attachment in animals which may lose it in adult life, e.g. Mya arenaria, or in which it becomes an organ of permanent fixation, e.g. Mytilus edulis, Pododesmus macroschisma and Tridacna crocea

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , February 1962 , pp. 113 - 125
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1962

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