Adjective

(-)

Of, pertaining to, or produced by a mantle, especially to the mantle of mollusks.

the pallial line, or impression, which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell

* {{quote-journal, 1998, date=May 8, Stanley R. Hart & Jerzy Blusztajn, Clams As Recorders of Ocean Ridge Volcanism and Hydrothermal Vent Field Activity, Science citation

, passage=The oldest points are close to the outcrop of the pallial myostracum (9 ). }}

* {{quote-book, year=1859, author=Various, title=Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Along a line nearly corresponding with the horny band which proceeds from the insertions of the shell-muscles and encircles the mantle below, the pallial wall is produced inwards and forwards into a membranous fold or ligament, which I will call the pallio-visceral ligament; and this pallio-visceral ligament becoming attached to various viscera, divides the great fifth chamber into an anterior inferior, and a posterior superior portion, which communicate freely with one another. }}

Of or relating to the pallium.