Diductor muscles of brachiopods: active or passive?

1 January 1975

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Paleobiology

Vol. 1 (1) , 44-47
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0094837300002177

Abstract

Experiments show that diductor muscles of articulate brachiopods are normally relaxed, contracting only when the valves gape. Consequently, dead brachiopods rarely gape.

Keywords

EXPERIMENTS SHOW
DEAD BRACHIOPODS
VALVES GAPE
ARTICULATE BRACHIOPODS
RARELY GAPE
BRACHIOPODS RARELY

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