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- The glochidium (plural glochidia) is a microscopic larval stage of some freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the families Unionidae and Margaritiferidae...
- trochop**** Certain molluscs veliger Mollusca: freshwater Bivalvia (mussels) glochidium Arthropoda: †Trilobita protaspis (unjointed), meraspis (increasing number...
- Drawing of the glochidium larva of the swan mussel...
- Glochids or glochidia (sg.: "glochidium") are hair-like spines or short prickles, generally barbed, found on the areoles of cacti in the sub-family Opuntioideae...
- Protocotyle euzetmaillardi Pseudorhabdosynochus spp. Cancellaria cooperii Glochidium Pyramidellidae †Platyceratidae Cookiecutter shark Candiru (vampire fish...
- covering of spines. Some cacti have also glochids (or glochidia, singular glochidium) – a particular kind of spine of different origin, which are smaller and...
- siphon. After fertilization, the eggs develop into a larval stage called a glochidium (plural glochidia), which temporarily parasitizes fish, attaching themselves...
- Podbaba. United Kingdom – ?[citation needed] The fish hosts for the glochidium larvae of this species are: Salaria fluviatilis, Gambusia holbrooki, Acipenser...
- California, Texas and Northern Mexico. The name comes from the Gr**** tri- and glochidium, meaning "three glochids." Although it is favored by hummingbirds for...
- order, they go through a larval stage that is parasitic on fish (see glochidium). The classification recognized by Banarescu (1995) uses three subfamilies...