The glochidium (plural glochidia) is a microscopic larval stage of some freshwater mussels, aquatic bivalve mollusks in the families Unionidae and Margaritiferidae...

trochophore Certain molluscs veliger Mollusca: freshwater Bivalvia (mussels) glochidium Arthropoda: †Trilobita protaspis (unjointed), meraspis (increasing number...

Protocotyle euzetmaillardi Pseudorhabdosynochus spp. Cancellaria cooperii Glochidium Pyramidellidae †Platyceratidae Cookiecutter shark Candiru (vampire fish...

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...

covering of spines. Some cacti have also glochids (or glochidia, singular glochidium) – a particular kind of spine of different origin, which are smaller and...

Drawing of the glochidium larva of the swan mussel...

siphon. After fertilization, the eggs develop into a larval stage called a glochidium (plural glochidia), which temporarily parasitizes fish, attaching themselves...

order, they go through a larval stage that is parasitic on fish (see glochidium). The classification recognized by Banarescu (1995) uses three subfamilies...

Podbaba. United Kingdom – ?[citation needed] The fish hosts for the glochidium larvae of this species are: Salaria fluviatilis, Gambusia holbrooki, Acipenser...

Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona. The name comes from the Greek tri- and glochidium, meaning "three glochids." Although it is favored by hummingbirds for...