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pallial line

A Dictionary of Zoology | 1999 | 258 words | Copyright

pallial line In most Bivalvia, a linear feature which runs between the two adductor muscles on the inner surface of the shell, and close to the margin. It delimits the extent of the inner calcareous shell layer, and marks the line of marginal mantle muscles.

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