Likewise, Pfeiffer's claims as to the purported impossibility of painting on byssus cloth have been conclusively debunked.
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Marine mussels are usually found clumping together on wave-washed rocks, each attached to the rock by its byssus.
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Other bivalves, such as mussels, attach themselves to hard surfaces using tough byssus threads made of keratin and proteins.
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If the substrate is suitable, the larva will metamorphoses into the juvenile form, plantigrade, and attach byssus threads.
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The foot in Protobranchia clams is without a true byssus gland, although they frequently have a nonhomologous byssal gland in the heel.
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She writes : " The German Wikipedia on " sea-silk ( byssus ) is very bad and full of legends and mistakes.
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Byssus often refers to the long, fine, silky threads secreted by the large Mediterranean pen shell, " Pinna nobilis ".
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When they have passed through several developmental stages they settle to the seabed, undergo metamorphosis and attach themselves with byssus threads as miniature adults.
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The spiny fan-mussel lives with the pointed anterior end of its shell vertically anchored to rock or firm sediment by numerous byssus threads.
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It has been found experimentally that both crabs and starfish preferred molluscs that are attached by byssus threads to ones that are cemented to the substrate.
