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MOLLUSQUE [8 records]

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Record 1 2022-01-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seafood and Freshwater Food (Food Industries)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
CONT

Shellstock is any fresh, raw, in-shell molluscan shellfish [i.e. any edible species of oysters, clams, mussels, or scallops].

Key term(s)
  • shell stock

French

Domaine(s)
  • Produits de mer et d'eau douce (Industr. alim.)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
OBS

mollusque en écaille; mollusque en coquille : désignations habituellement utilisées au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • mollusques en écaille
  • mollusques en coquille

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Productos del mar y de agua dulce (Ind. alimentaria)
  • Moluscos, equinodermos y procordados
CONT

Los moluscos de concha se obtienen arrancándolos o rastrillándolos del fondo del mar (ostras, mejillones), o bien excavando en la arena en marea baja (almejas).

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Record 2 2021-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
CONT

Bivalve molluscan shellfish have two hinged shells and include oysters, clams, scallops, mussels and cockles. [They] feed by filtering microscopic plankton from the water ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
CONT

Les mollusques bivalves, notamment les huîtres, les myes, les pétoncles, les moules et les bucardes, ont deux coquilles articulées. […] les mollusques bivalves se nourrissent en filtrant le plancton microscopique vivant dans l'eau […]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Moluscos, equinodermos y procordados
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Record 3 2005-09-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
CONT

Squid, cuttlefish and octopuses, which form the marine mollusc group the cephalopods, are of great and increasing interest to marine biologists, physiologists, ecologists, environmental biologists and fisheries scientists.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
CONT

Le bigorneau est un mollusque marin dont l'apparence lui vaut le surnom d'escargot de mer.

Spanish

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Record 4 2005-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
DEF

An animal belonging to the Mollusca.

OBS

Mollusca: In present use (mainly following the classification proposed by Cuvier in 1788-1800), a phylum or sub-kingdom of animals, comprising the four classes Gastropoda (limpets, snails, etc.), Scaphopoda (tooth-shells), Cephalopoda (cuttlefish, etc.), and Lamellibranchia (oyster, mussel, etc.); the classes Cirrhopoda, Tunicata, and Brachiopoda, included by Cuvier among the Mollusca, are now placed elsewhere, and the Polyzoa have since Cuvier's time been added to the phylum and again removed.

CONT

shellfish: An aquatic animal having a shell, as the oyster and other mollusks and the lobster and other crustaceans.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
DEF

Animal invertébré au corps mou.

CONT

Principaux mollusques : Céphalopodes : ammonite, argonaute, baculite, bélemnite, calmar (ou encornet), nautile, poulpe (ou pieuvre), seiche. Gastéropodes : buccin (ou trompette), casque, cérite, cône, doris, escargot (ou hélix, limaçon), fuseau, haliotide (ou ormeau), harpe, janthine, limace, limnée, littorine (ou bigorneau, vignot), mitre, murex (ou rocher), nérinée, nérite, olive, ombrelle, paludine, patelle, planorbe, pleurobranche, porcelaine, pourpre, pupa (ou maillot), strombe, terebellum, testacelle, triton (ou trompette), troque, turbinelle, turbo, turritelle, vermet. Lamellibranches : anodonte, avicule, huître (Ostracés), isocarde, lime, moule, mulette, palourde, pedum, peigne (ou pecten, coquille Saint-Jacques), pétoncle (ou amande de mer), pholade, pinne, praire, solen (ou manche de couteau), spondyle, taret, tridacne (ou bénitier), vénéricarde, vénus.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Moluscos, equinodermos y procordados
DEF

Filum extenso de invertebrados, incluyendo babosas, caracoles y otros de cuerpo blando, no segmentado, protegido en parte o totalmente por una concha.

OBS

Comparar con la clase Crustacea.

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Record 5 2000-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
CONT

A decrease in respiration frequency was noted in mollusks with siphons when conditions deteriorate, indicating a protective mechanism in these animals that allows them to temporarily tolerate unfavourable conditions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
CONT

Chez les mollusques à siphon, on note une diminution de la fréquence respiratoire lorsque les conditions se détériorent, ce qui indique que, bien que sessiles, ces organismes jouissent de mécanismes de protection leur permettant de tolérer temporairement des conditions défavorables.

Spanish

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Record 6 1997-01-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
Key term(s)
  • mollusque vivant

Spanish

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Record 7 1995-02-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seafood and Freshwater Food (Food Industries)
  • Food Industries

French

Domaine(s)
  • Produits de mer et d'eau douce (Industr. alim.)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
DEF

Tissu musculaire.

OBS

chair de mollusque : Terme et définition recommandés et en instance de normalisation par l'OLF.

Spanish

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Record 8 1991-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mollusks, Echinoderms and Prochordates
OBS

(zoology)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mollusques, échinodermes et procordés
OBS

(G.L.E.) mars 1975 D.G.

Spanish

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