Talk:Glochidium

A note
Adding it to the project. Jourdy288 (talk) 01:11, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Word needs changing
Hi, I'm new.

It looks pretty obvious that a word needs changing. Rather than saying "the glochidia do not harm the mussel", the final word should be "fish".

What's the protocol here? Can I make minor changes such as this, or does it have to be discussed first? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Decca864 (talk • contribs) 17:36, 26 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Feel free to edit. (References would be fine.) --Snek01 (talk) 22:05, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Images
http://www.us.archive.org/GnuBook/?id=freshwaterlandsh00willrich#59 May be a useful image, but not determined to species. --Snek01 (talk) 22:05, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, if you look below the illustration, the snails are indeed indentified to species. Invertzoo (talk) 17:20, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

Glochidium is also
Glochids or glochidia (singular "glochidium") are hair-like spines or short prickles, generally barbed, found on the areoles of cacti in the sub-family Opuntioideae. Cactus glochids easily detach from the plant and lodge in the skin, causing irritation upon contact. The tufts of glochids in the areoles nearly cover the stem surfaces of some cactus species, each tuft containing hundreds of glochids; this may be in addition to, or instead of, the larger, more conspicuous cactus spines, which do not readily detach and are not generally barbed.

-- I copied this from Wikipedia, searching under "glochids"