Plastics degradation has resulted in a major threat to marine organisms, including bivalves. Thirty-three peer-reviewed papers have been reviewed understand the geographical spread of microplastics ingestion by bivalves, characteristics ingested, and limitation analysis globallly. Only studies on investigation bivalves from wild aquaculture area were selected. Marine are reported accumulate all...

One group of invertebrates that live in the mangrove ecosystem is Mollusks mainly Gastropods and Bivalves. They are associated with as life, shelter, spawning, also a place to get food support growth them. The purpose this reaserch was look at effect species substrate type on distribution (Gastropods Bivalves) Pelangan Village, district Sekotong, west Lombok regency. This descriptive explorativ...

Jennings and Hunt (2009: 76) note that “postlarval or juvenile dispersal is important because for many species this is a last chance to migrate to their adult location (Hiddink and Wolff, 2002) as mobility often decreases with increasing size.”2 Postsettlement passive transport and recruitment of nonsessile bivalves under rigorous hydrodynamic conditions is not a new observation, although it wa...

Aim To understand the latitudinal patterns in body size distributions of north-eastern Paci®c bivalves, as well as the factors in ̄uencing those patterns. Locations The north-eastern Paci®c continental shelf from 5 °S latitude to 70 °N latitude. Methods We used data on the body size and latitudinal ranges of 915 species of northeastern Paci®c marine bivalves to test for the presence of interspec...

Molluscs (particularly bivalves) and fish are usually proposed as good bioindicators for environmental contamination of marine ecosystems. Different steps can be recognized when assessing such contamination. The first approach consists of comparing stable residue concentrations determined in various environments or different periods. In this chapter, this is illustrated for heavy metals in biva...

The individual ages of bivalve molluscs can be inferred from the age rings laid down every year in the shell, especially in species inhabiting areas with seasonal variability in environmental factors such as food supply and temperature. Animals obtained from different environmental settings can therefore be used to investigate how specific environmental factors shape the process of ageing in th...

—Although the causes of mass extinctions have been studied in detail, recoveries have received little attention until recently. In this study, I examine the influence of extinction versus recovery intervals on ecological patterns across the end-Cretaceous (K/T) event in veneroid bivalves. Systematic and stratigraphic data were collected for 140 subgenera of veneroids, ranging from the Late Cret...

Marine invertebrates and fish are well known for their remarkable genetic diversity, which is commonly explained by large population size and the characteristic dispersive nature of their early, planktonic life history. Other potential sources of diversity in marine animals, such as a higher mutation rate, have been much less considered, though evidence for a high genetic load in marine bivalve...

Okadaic acid and its analogues are potent phosphatase inhibitors that cause Diarrheic Shellfish Poisoning (DSP) through the ingestion of contaminated shellfish by humans. This group of toxins is transmitted worldwide but the number of poisoning incidents has declined over the last 20 years due to legislation and monitoring programs that were implemented for bivalves. In the summer of 2012 and 2...