| 1. | The animals attach themselves to a solid substrate using a byssus.
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| 2. | Other paired muscles control the siphons and the byssus.
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| 3. | It prefers soft substrates and surrounds its shell in a dense mass of byssus.
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| 4. | The byssus is used by the clam to attach itself to the sea bed.
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| 5. | Byssus is eventually lost with adulthood, transitioning almost all scallop species into free swimmers.
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| 6. | In the Mediterranean area, material made from the holdfast or byssus of " Pinna nobilis"
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| 7. | Byssus is a remarkable adhesive, one that is neither degraded nor deformed by water as synthetic adhesives are.
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| 8. | Each one then crawls around until it finds a suitable location where it attaches itself with a byssus thread.
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| 9. | On sandy bottoms, aggregations were often attached to large sand grains that were glued together with byssus threads.
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| 10. | This silk or " byssus " are fine threads which historically was used to make special royal fabrics.
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