Conchifera (Lat., 'shell-bearing'), a term applied by Lamareck to bivalve molluscs and the very different Brachiopods (q.v.), but now rarely used.
Conchifera
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 399
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Conchifera (Lat., 'shell-bearing'), a term applied by Lamareck to bivalve molluscs and the very different Brachiopods (q.v.), but now rarely used.