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.
(Click to view a larger image.). On July 4 Amadas and Barlowe arrived âupon the coastâ (the precise location is difficult to determine from Hakluytâs account), then sailed north some distance and explored an island (perhaps the âisle of Wokokon,â [Ocracoke] or more likely a part of the northern Outer Banks).