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.
Favignana: Anciently called Aegusa (goats' island), Favignana is located just a few kilometers southwest of Trapani. It is the largest of the Egadi, or Egadian, Islands. Still known for their tuna (tunny) fishing, these islands are now popular as summer resorts.arger than Pantelleria, Lampedusa lies in the Sicilian Channel 205 kilometers south of the Sicilian coast and only 113 kilometers from Tunisia-and 150 kilometers from Malta. There are around six thousand permanent residents. The island was a fief of the Tomasi family until the middle of the nineteenth century.