The section of Ethnography and Natural Sciences of the Municipal Museum Jerónimo Molina will host on Friday morning from 20.00 in its multipurpose room the inauguration of an exhibition and a conference on bivalves, by Sebastián Martínez.
Bivalves are invertebrate mollusks, abductors composed of two leaflets that open and close them, sucking the food inside.
Current bivalves are mussels, clams, razors, cockles or oysters.
The exhibition will focus on the fossil bivalves and their comparison with the current ones: morphology, habits, feeding, reproduction, etc.
The exposed specimens belong to the private collection of the lecturer and fossils from Jumilla, Murcia, Spain and a large part of the rest of the world will be exhibited.
It can be visited until April 2 at the usual time of the museum.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla