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Save the univalve's operculum and slice it off the muscle that holds it.
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A shell pin made from the columella of a large univalve.
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There are three varieties, spiral, univalve, and bivalve.
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It was easy to see that the stones are thin and porous opercula, which have formed part of small univalve shells.
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There was one imported shell that we did not value much, it was so abundant-thefreckled univalve they called a "prop."
Usage of gastropod in anglès
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The gastropod wears larger versions of the scales on its exposed foot.
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As the sun set, the humidity in the house increased, improving conditions for gastropod travel.
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They represented half a billion years of gastropod evolution.
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Cupping the fossil cast of a gastropod in her hands, she stared at it intently.
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Abalone is the only gastropod that can be grilled.
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She saw the gastropod give up chasing the balloon and stop next to her husband.
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Jeremy's shell coiled to the left instead of the right - making him one very rare gastropod.
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The idiot glowered at the gastropod enemy.
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It was a copy of a delicate gastropod, made of rice paper & it dissolved when you washed it.
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Stasis in three genetically well-defined extant species of the gastropod Amalda from New Zealand based on 662 fossil specimens.
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Below him she could see the gastropod, tracking them across the sands, still close enough to be a danger.
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Ayla rubbed the four scars on her leg as she looked at another object: the fossil cast of a gastropod.
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They are officially a 'semi-slug', and like a paua are a gastropod but the resemblance of the shell is a coincidence.
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Comparisons are drawn with general distribution patterns of monoamines and with identified monoaminergic cells and cell populations found in other gastropod species.
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The snail, called the scaly-foot gastropod, was discovered nearly a decade ago living in a hydrothermal vent field in the Indian Ocean.
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But the snail's organic layer is surprisingly thick, and no other gastropod has ever been shown to use iron sulfide in its shell.