| adductor muscle |
The muscle that holds an oyster shell closed. When the muscle relaxes, the shell opens. The abductor muscle causes a prominent scar on the inside of the oyster shell.
Ãâó: www3.csc.noaa.gov/scoysters/html/glossary.htm
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| adductor muscle |
Large muscle that bivalve mollusks possess which are attached to both valves of the shell and when contracted tightly close the shell.
Ãâó: www.dnr.state.mn.us/mussels/glossary.html
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| adductor muscle |
Muscle, commonly one of 2, connecting 2 valves of shell, tending to draw them together.
Ãâó: www.mcz.harvard.edu/Departments/InvertPaleo/Trento...
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