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Please help to correct a short text! Phylum: Mollusca Class: Bivalvia The bivalve mollusks are animals whose soft body is usually protected by the right and left (upper and lower) valves. They include such well-known representatives as oysters, mussels, scallops and freshwater mollusks (Unio)1. However, there are bivalve mollusks of another form. The vivid representatives of this group are marine shipworms. Their valves were transformed into small plates in the anterior part of the animal, and the body acquired a worm-like shape. The converted plates serve to drill a passage in the wood, and the course itself is cemented with lime. Many species of bivalve mollusks are edible; some species are used for pearls. In the Barents Sea there are about 150 species of bivalve mollusks. However, in reality, only 54 species were caught in commercial bottom trawls with a fine mesh insert during 11 years of observations, of which only 20 were found in large numbers. Most species of bivalve mollusks either live on unsuitable for trawling places (tidal zone, hard ground with boulders), or too small for a delay in the trawl net. Almost all bivalve mollusks of the adult stage are well distinguished by the appearance of the shell. It is usually enough to look at the photograph to identify the species belonging to the specimen2. Exceptions are damaged individuals or some closely related species. In such cases, in place of the species, you can write Bivalvia or "similar to ...", where in place of the dots put the name of the species that it is most similar to the sample in question. The structure of the shell of a bivalve mollusk (according to Scarlato, 1976): 1 - crown, 2 - ligament (ligament), 3 - concentric ribs, 4 - radial ribs Cartogram of biomass distribution of Bivalvia (kg / mile of trawling)

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The converted plates serve to drill a passage in the wood, and the course itself is cemented with lime.

Maybe use a different word instead of 'course' unless this is a technical term, which in that case leave it. 

However, in reality, only 54 species were caught in commercial bottom trawls with a fine mesh insert during 11 years of observations, of which only 20 were found in large numbers.

Perhaps rearrange this line as it is rather long. Either break them up (1) or rearrange them to make it shorter (2). Also remove the first coma. Not sure what the 'insert' functions as here, best to remove it unless it is the name of the mesh.

1) However in reality, only 54 species were caught in commercial bottom trawls with a fine mesh. During 11 years of observations, only 20 were found in large numbers.

2) However in reality, of the 54 species caught in commercial bottom trawls with a fine mesh, only 20 were found in large numbers over a period of 11 years.

Other than that the abstract seems fine.

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