How to use in-sentence of “molluscs”:
+ Smashers use this ability to attack snails, crabs, molluscs and rock oysters; their blunt clubs enabling them to crack the shells of their prey into pieces.
+ Most of them infect molluscs in the first part of the life-cycle, and vertebrates in the second part.
+ But they also eat crustaceans like blue crabs and shrimp, molluscs like octopuses and squids, many types of fish like sardines and herrings, and other types of sharks.
+ See the Maryland Department of the Environment’s page for a discussion on why shrimp, crab, and lobster are not categorized as “shellfish.” Molluscs commonly used as food include the clam, mussel, oyster, Periwinkle winkle, and scallop.
+ In 1987, they were officially recognized as molluscs and given their own class.
+ In reproduction, molluscs may change gender to accommodate the other breeding partner.
Example sentences of “molluscs”:
+ The majority of shell-forming molluscs belong to two classes: Gastropoda.
+ The Animal shellshells of molluscs are composed of either calcite or aragonite, or both.
+ Bivalve molluscs took over their inshore habitats in the Mesozoic, and since then the brachiopods have been confined to deeper water, except for a handful of species.
+ The majority of shell-forming molluscs belong to two classes: Gastropoda.
+ The Animal shellshells of molluscs are composed of either calcite or aragonite, or both.
+ Bivalve molluscs took over their inshore habitats in the Mesozoic, and since then the brachiopods have been confined to deeper water, except for a handful of species.
+ Hammerhead sharks are aggressive hunters and feed on crustaceans, molluscs like octopuses and squids, and many types of fish.
+ Brachiopods are easily distinguished from molluscs because they have dorsal and ventral shells.
+ Byssus is a silky “filament” by which certain molluscs attach to hard surfaces.
+ They are a small group of molluscs which have deviated from the normal molluscan form.
+ The hard, Calcitecalcitic shells of molluscs are examples.
+ Example: in the group of molluscs known as the cephalopods, there are about 600 extant species and 7500 extinct species.
+ Some are filter feeders, and others are important predators of molluscs and other shell-fish.
+ A striking feature of molluscs is the use of the same organ for multiple functions.
+ Most fish, amphibians, reptiles, dinosaurs, birds, monotremes, arthropods and molluscs lay eggs outside the mother’s body.
+ This species is one of the largest molluscs native to the tropical northwestern Atlantic, from Bermuda to Brazil, reaching up to 35.2 centimetres in shell length.
+ Eagle rays feed on molluscs and crustaceans, crushing their shells with their flattened teeth, while devil rays and manta rays filter plankton from the water.
+ They are bivalve molluscs of the family family Mytilidae.
+ Seashells more precisely, the external shells of oceanmarine molluscs are perhaps the most familiar and most common shells, both in the wild and for sale as decorative objects.