Bivalve Small 320×221 Medium 640×442 Large 1024×708 Download Tiff Original 2400×1659 | (889.7 KB) Description "Bivalves are those mollusks whose coverings consist of two concave shelly plates or valves united by a hinge."—(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911) Keywords Bivalve, mollusk, shell, shelly Galleries Clams and Other Bivalves Source: Everybody's Cyclopedia (New York, NY: Syndicate Publishing Company, 1912)