Learn about this topic in these articles: bivalves. ...posterior respiratory gills have enlarged and moved to lie lateral to the body as paired folds, or demibranchs. Further increases in surface area have been achieved by folding the platelike gill lamellae into plicae.
Farmland on Islandmagee. Islandmagee is a peninsula on the east coast of County Antrim, on the North Channel. The peninsula has its root a little north of Carrickfergus, and stretches northward along the coast for 7 miles as far as Larne, creating between itself and the mainland of Antrim a sea lough known as Larne Lough.
The Isle of Gigha is the southernmost island of the Southern Hebrides and lies off the west coast of Kintyre, east from Islay. A ferry trip from Kennacraig to Islay offers splendid views of the island. With an area of 1,395 ha Gigha is one of the smallest populated islands in the Southern Hebrides.