Information om | Engelska ordet BYSSUS

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• They are not closely related to true oysters (family Ostreidae); however, they do share some habits such as cementing themselves to rocks rather than attaching themselves by a byssus.
• Byssus filaments are created by certain kinds of marine and freshwater bivalve mollusks, which use the byssus to attach themselves to rocks, substrates, or seabeds.
• The byssus of Atrina pectinata, a shell of the same family, has been used near Sant’Antioco by Arianna Pintus as a substitute for Pinna nobilis, to weave sea silk.
• ; byssus : from Greek bussos (AHD), perhaps from בוץ buts (WNW) 'linen cloth', from Semitic (MW) *b-w-tz 'to be white' (WNW).
• These hairnets were frequently made of gold threads, sometimes of silk, or the Elean byssus, and probably of other materials, which are not mentioned by ancient writers.
• It is usually beneath stones and boulders, in rock crevices and fissures, among the holdfasts of Laminaria, among the byssus threads of Mytilus colonies or on a variety of soft substrates including sand, silty-sand, shelly-gravel and shingle.
• Fanti and his collaborators claimed that certain parts did contain pigments but, when zooming to a certain extent between the fibers, pigments were not found between them but only on the fabric's surface, due to the intrinsic characteristics of the extremely fine byssus fabric.
• The foot in Protobranchia clams is without a true byssus gland, although they frequently have a nonhomologous byssal gland in the heel.
• Anomia ephippium, along with its members of the family Anomiidae Rafinesque, attach by means of this byssus which passes through the inside of the upper left valve through a notch in its lower right valve.

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