Are oysters and clams born in shells???

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Are oysters and clams born in shells???

IF not, can you explain the process of it's youth

If they are, how is it formed?

2007-08-10 21:51:34 · 3 answers · asked by lolman180 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology

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they are not born but Hatched and that without the shell, i guess. lot of molluscs hatch a larva that lives a parazite lifestyle in the gills of fish, and later it falls apart from the host and lands at the seabed, where it produces its shell. thats it.

2007-08-11 05:22:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋

they are born as free-swimming larvae. google the larval or reproductive and juvenile stages of both.

2007-08-11 07:34:15 · answer #2 · answered by bad guppy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋

no, the shells develop later

2007-08-11 09:32:59 · answer #3 · answered by rudra d 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋