A Good Locality For_p1
A Good Locality For Fresh-water Mollusks • ' 'lw* '•:**00'• • The Balanced Aquarium And The Snailery One Of The Useful Aerators, And A Favourite Food Of Certain Snails. It Can Be Checked In Its Growth By Introducing More Snails, Or By Cutting Off The Light With A Screen Of ...
A Good Locality For_p2
Corals, Even Tropical Kinds, Live Comfortably In The Balanced Aquarium For Years. A Cold Water Species Is To Be Had In Long Island Sound And On The Jersey Coast About Long Branch. Oysters, Mussels And Clams Live Comfortably In The Sand And Gravel. Sea Anemones "blossom," Attached To Stones And ...
A Practicable Way To_p1
A Practicable Way To Study Mollusks Alive In Your Own Home About Fifty Years Ago A Young Lady Up In Vermont Took Home From A Pond A Two-quart Glass Jar Of Water In Which She Had Collected A Few Tadpoles, Minnows And Snails, And Some Of The Growing Pond-weed Among ...
A Practicable Way To_p2
Cylindrical Tanks, With Circular Bottoms And Perpendicular 10 The Balanced Aquarium And The Snailery Sides, Are Considered The Most Dependable Shape For The Home Or School Aquarium. Many Of These Are Maintained In The New York Schools. The Slight Distortion Of The Shape And Size Of An Object In The ...
A Typical Bivalve Mollusk
A Typical Bivalve Mollusk. The Hard Shell Clam Of The East Coast Of The United States Exhibits The Structural Plan Of Bivalve Mollusks. The Shell.— It Is An Oval Box, Somewhat Flattened, Com Posed Of Two Symmetrical Concave Valves, Joined By A Ligament And Locked Hinge Teeth At The Back, ...
A Typical Univalve Mollusk
A Typical Univalve Mollusk. The Pear Conch Well Exhibits The Structure Of The Univalves. It Is Abundant From Cape Cod To Florida. On The Same General Plan All Snails Are Built. ...
Cameo Cutting
Cameo-cutting The Black Helmet Is One Of The Best Shells For Cameo-cutting. It Has An "onyx Ground," A Dark Coat Under The Pile Outer Layer, So That The Figure Will Stand Out Well. The Inner Lip Of A Large Shell Should Yield Several Brooches. Usually The Back• Ground Is Claret-coloured, ...
Cloth Of Gold
Cloth Of Gold The Anchor By Which Pen Shells Are Held Fast To Rocks On The Sea Bottom Deserves Special Mention. More Familiar To Us Is The Byssus Of Black Threads By Which Mussels Hang In Clusters To To Bridge And Wharf Timbers Below The Water Line. Pen Shells Exude ...
Family Bulliine
Family Bulliine Genus Bulla, Linn. Shell Thin, Smooth, Ventricose, Almost Globular; Spire Pol Ished, Deeply Pitted; Lip Plain; Body Large, Fleshy, Partially Enveloping The Shell By Reflexing The Two Wing-like Parapodia. Eyes Prominent On Frontal Disc. Quantities Of Mucus Are Se Creted By The Skin To Keep It Moist While ...
Family Dentaliidie_p1
Family Dentaliidie Foot Partially Enclosed By A Fleshy Sheath, Which Is Cleft Into Two Terminal Lobes; Shell Tusk-shaped, Ribbed, Strong, Like Ivory In Texture. The Most Important Family In The Class. It Includes A Single Genus Of About One Hundred And Fifty Living Species. Genus Dentalium, Linn. Characteristics Of The ...
Family Dentaliidie_p2
The Angled Tooth Shell (d. Hexagonum, Gld.), Found On The California Coast, Has A Much More Delicate Shell Than The More Northern Species. It Is Distinctly Six-angled By Ridges Extending Its Whole Length. Length, 1 Inch. The Common Tooth Shell Of Warm European Waters Is D. Vulgare, Da Costa. Its ...
Family Myidie
Family Myidie Shell Strong, Opaque, Unequal, Gaping; Cartilage Process Flattened On Left Valve; Ligament Internal; Epidermis Wrinkled; Mantle Edges United Except At Pedal Aperture; Foot Small; Siphons Long, United, Retractile; Gills Two On Each Side, Elongated. Genus Mya, Linn. Shell Oblong, Thin, Soft, Chalky; Left Valve Smaller; Gape At Both ...
Family Ostfueidie_p1
Family Ostfueidie Genus Ostriea, Linn. Are Small, With Thick, Rough, Shapeless Valves. It Is Surprising That It Pays At All To Open Them. Yet I Recall A Most Delectable Stew Made Of This Strange Fruit Of The Mangrove Tree. Raccoons Feed Upon Them With Avidity. Of Many Species Of Oysters ...
Family Ostfueidie_p2
Normally, An Oyster Lies With Its Two Valves Slightly Ajar. Note The Rubbery Ligament Inside The Hinge. When The Oyster Hears A Noise Or Sees A Shadow That Suggests Danger, The Adductor Muscle Contracts, Pinching The Ligament And Shutting The Shell Tight. It Cannot Stay Closed Long At A Time. ...
Family Ostfueidie_p3
Careful Coast Surveys Have Been Followed By The Extension Of The Present Oyster-growing Areas, And The Establishment Of Beds In New Regions Deemed Suitable For This Purpose. The Southern And Western Coasts Have At Various Points Been Successfully Colonised By The Oyster Of The Chesapeake. There Is No Attempt At ...
Family Ostfueidie_p4
Though Two Oysters May Be Alike In Size And Quality, The One With A Smooth, Regular Shell Brings A Higher Price In The Market Than The Rough, Irregular One, Which Is Ugly And Hard To Open. So Growers Give Considerable Attention To Breaking Up The Clumps Upon Which The Spat ...
Family Ostfueidie_p5
The Starfish Begins Its Ravages Upon Oysters Scarcely The 430 The Oysters Size Of A Pin Head, And Continues Through Life. It Swallows The Spat, And Oysters Up To Three Inches Long. Its Stomach Is Turned Wrong Side Out, And Often Wrapped Around The Victim, Which Is Overcome By The ...
Family Ostfueidie_p6
The Small Fisherman Thrusts His Tongs Down Over The Boat's Gunwale And By Working The Two Handles Back And Forth A Bit He Manages To Gather A Load Of Something From The Sea Bottom, Between The Two Sets Of Inward-pointing Teeth. The Two Arms 432 The Oysters Cross Just Above ...
Family Ostfueidie_p7
Cove Oysters, Familiar To All Who Have Studied The Grocers' Shelves In Small Inland Towns, Come From Chesapeake Bay, Chiefly. These Small-sized Oysters Are Steamed Before Being "shucked"; Cars Six Or Eight Feet Long Run From The Wharf Directly Into The "steam Chest," And After The Steam Has Been Turned ...
Family Scaphandridie
Family Scaphandridie Genus Scaphander, Montf. Shell Scoop-like, Gaping, Scarcely Containing The Body. The Tentacles Are United Forming A Broad Lobe Behind The Large Head. The Gizzard Is Large And Very Powerful, Enabling These Creatures To Devour Good-sized Mollusks And Reduce Their Thick Shells. They Subsist Chiefly Upon Tooth Shells, In ...
Family Selenitidie
Family Selenitidie Shell As In Helix. Animal Carnivorous; Jaw Without Ribs ; Radula Well Developed, Rows Of Teeth Arched. 252 The Flesh-eating Land Snails Genus Macrocyclis, Beck. (selenites, Fish.) Shell Thin, Spire Depressed,'wrinkled, Or Striated; Animal As In Helix; Eye Peduncles Long; Foot Narrow; Tail Short, Pointed. A World-wide Genus, ...
Family Tornatinidie
Family Tornatinidie Genus Tornatina, A. Ads. Shell Thin, Inflated, Cylindrical, Entirely Covering The Animal. The Spire Is Concealed, As In Cyprxa. The Head And Foot Are Split; The Halves Are Reflected Over The Shell. The Radula Is Replaced By A Powerful Gizzard In Which Molluscan Food Is Ground. So Solid ...
Family Zonitidie
Family Zonitidie Shell A Depressed Spire, Thin, Transparent, With Sharp, Simple Peristome; Umbilicus Present; Animal Able To Withdraw Into The Shell. Foot With A Mucus Pore; Jaw Not Ribbed; Mantle Lobed, But Rarely Reflected. The Glassy Shells Of These Pitted Snails, The Presence Of The Mucus Pore, And The Thin, ...
How To Know Shells_p1
How To Know Shells All Up And Down The Ocean Border, East And West And South, I Have Met People Picking Up Shells. Children And Grown People Both Give Themselves To The Eager Search For Ocean Treasures Left By The Outgoing Tide. The Fascination Of The Pursuit—who Has Not Yielded ...
How To Know Shells_p2
Oysters Are Preeminent Among Edible Mollusks, With Clams And Cockles, And Snails And Scallops In A Long Train After Them. An Oyster Is Preeminent, Too, As The Source Of The World's Wealth 4 How To Know Shells In Pearls. Mother-of-pearl Is The Lining Of Shells. Pearl Buttons Are Cut From ...
How To Know Shells_p3
6 How To Know Shells Is Is Worth While To Make A Collection Of Shells. This Is One Of The Most Desirable Channels Into Which To Guide The Collecting Zeal Of Children. Pennies Are Better Invested In Gay-hued Sea Shells At The Curio Shop Than In The Equally Dazzling Display ...
Key To The Orders
Key To The Orders And Sub-orders Of Cephalopods A. Shell Internal Or Absent ; Arms, Eight To Ten ; Gills, Two. Order Di Branch! Ata B. Arms Eight, All Alike ; Suckers Fleshy ; Shell Absent. Sub-order Octopoda Eight-armed Cephalopods The Argonauts The Devil-fishes Bb. Arms Ten, Two Elongated; Suckers ...
Limpets
Limpets Genus Crepidula, Lam. Shells Oval, With A Horizontal Plate Closing About One-half Of The Aperture. Apex Lateral, Spiral; Head Flat; Foot Short; Very Common Shells On All American Beaches. The Arched Slipper Shell (c. Fornicata, Linn.) Is Loved By Children, It Is Useful In So Many Ways When Seaside ...
Marine Univalves
Marine Univalves The Olive Shells. Rice Shells. Harp Shells Border, And The Same Wavy Edge Is Shown By The Ribs, And The Undulating Pattern That Decorates The Spaces Between. The Width Of The Ribs Is Usually Unequal, But The Greatest Number Of Them Are Quite Narrow; The Crenations Form A ...
North American Land Snails
North American Land Snails. North American Genera Of The Helices May Be Grouped By Peculiarities Of The Lip Of The Shell Into Four Classes. Certain Notable Exotic Genera Will Be Mentioned With Natives In Their Proper Class Under This Simple Key, Made By Dr. Pilsbry For Beginners. A. Shell With ...
Old World Limpets Family
Old World Limpets Family Pate Ll I D/e Shell Conical, Without Distinct Internal Border; For Gills A Row Of Secondary Branchi Are Substituted, Set In A Ring Between Mantle And Foot; Jaw And Radula Well Developed. A Large Family Sub-divided Upon Such Obscure And Difficult Characters As The Teeth Of ...
Olive Shells 1
Olive Shells 1, 2 Netted Olive, Oliva Reticularis. 3, 4 Tiger Olive, Oliva Agrina. 5, 6 Camp Olive, Oliva Porphyria. 3 Gigiktrit 2 ...
Or Pear Conchs Giant
Giant Whelks, Or Pear Conchs, And Egg Ribbon 1 Left-banded Whelk, Fulgur Perversa. 3 Operculum Of Fulgur Perversa. 2 Egg Ribbon Of F . Canal Iculatu S . Several Embryos Develop In Each Capsule. 4 Channeled Whelk, Fulgur Canaliculatus. E:: The Whelks. Trumpet Shells C. Cancellaria, Conr., Is Ash-coloured, Has ...
Pearl Oysters And Hammer_p1
The Wing Shells, Pearl Oysters And Hammer Oysters - Family Aviculidae. Shell Oblique, Valves Unequal, Right One Smaller, Always Underneath; Hinge Line Straight, Much Elongated; Umbones Eared, One Ear Wing-like; Animal Attached By Byssus; Foot Small; Mantle Lobes Fringed, Free. Family Mostly Extinct; One Thousand Fossil Species Known, Chiefly In ...
Pearl Oysters And Hammer_p2
Mother-of-pearl, The Thick Lining Of Each Valve, Is The De Pendable Product Of Pearl Fisheries. It Is Secreted In Annual Layers By Glands In The Mantle. There Is Just Enough Animal Substance In It To Support The Particles Of Lime Carbonate. The Iridescence Is Due To Microscopic Undulations Of The ...
Pearl Oysters And Hammer_p3
In One Of The Best-managed Fisheries In The South Sea Islands The Divers Work By Contract That Binds Them For The Season. They Are Paid By Ton For Their Shells, Graded Into Three Quali Ties. The Pearls Found Belong To The Divers, Who Sell Them Usually To The Company. The ...
Shells_p1
Shells Genus Fulgur, Montf. (busycon, Bolt.) Shell Large, Heavy, Depressed Below The Apex, Sculptured By Fine Revolving Ridges Crossed By Radiating Growth Lines; Columella Drawn Out Into A Slender Stalk; Body Whorl Large, Aperture Oval With Elongated Anterior Canal; Operculum Horny; Foot Large; Sexes Separate; Egg Capsules Keeled, On Connecting ...
Shells_p2
Fresh Ribbons Are Found During All The Warm Months Along The Atlantic Coast. In Each Case The Development Of The Egg Progresses, Until The Embryo Stage Is Past. Then A Round Door Opens On The Lower Floor Of The Chamber, On The Side Opposite The Connecting String. Out Tumble The ...
Shield Shells
Shield Shells Genus Scutus, Month Shell Oblong, Depressed To Platter Form, Thick, Squarish At Ends, With Obscure Notch In Front Margin; Apex Obscure Near Posterior End, Pointed Backward; Surface Without Radiating Ribs Or Markings; Body Black Or Blotched With Black; Mantle Enveloping The Shell; Snout And Tentacles Long. Nor Slit ...
The Agate Shells Family
The Agate Shells Family Achatinidae. Shell Thick, Ovate, With Elongated Spire, And Ventricose Body Whorl; Aperture Oval, Large, Sometimes On The Left Side; Columella Twisted, Arched; Lips United By A Shiny Callus. Some Agate Shells Are Larger Even Than The Great Brazilian Snails, Bulimus. They, Too, Lay White Eggs, Over ...
The Amber Snails Family
The Amber Snails Family Succineidae. Shell Oblique, Spiral, Thin, Transparent, Of Few Coils. A Family Containing Several Genera Of Slug-like Mollusks. Genus Succinea, Drap. Shell Oval, Fragile, Glassy, Spire Short, Whorls Few. Animal Large, Barely Covered By Shell; Foot Broad; Tentacles Short, Thick, Lower Pair Dwarfed. Large Genus Of Two ...
The Apple Snails Flask
The Apple Snails - Flask Snails - Family Ampullariidae. Vated Spire, Which Gives The Shell A Squat, Pear-shaped Outline. The Horny Olive Surface Is Obscurely Banded With Brown. The Great Aperture Reveals A Pale, Unbanded Interior, Painted On The Recurved Lip With Bright, Dark Red. Diameter, 4 To 5 Inches. ...
The Argonaut Paper Nautilus_p1
The Argonaut. Paper Nautilus - Family Argonautidie. Genus Argonauta, Linn. Nor Could Anybody Say Whether The Ship-wrecked Argonaut Could Live Without The Shell. Nobody Ever Saw A Male Argo Nauta. The Specimens Seen Were All Females. About The Middle Of The Nineteenth Century Scientific Interest In The Paper Nautilus Reached ...
The Argonaut Paper Nautilus_p2
There Is No Union By Muscle Bands Between Shell And Body. The Arms Simply Hold It Fast, And In Such Position That The Eggs From The Beginning Are Protected By Being Lodged In The Coil Of The Shell, With The Body Between Them And Any Harm. The Report Of Madame ...
The Ark Shells Chest_p1
The Ark Shells. Chest Shells - Family Arcidie. Shell Heavy, Regular, Box-like, With Strong Epidermis: Lig Ament External; Hinge With A Series Of Comb-like Teeth; Mantle Open; Foot Large, Bent, And Deeply Grooved; Gills Oblique, United Posteriorly To A Web; Ocelli In Mantle Margin; Siphons Wanting. Warm Seas. Genus Arca, ...
The Ark Shells Chest_p2
Mediterranean Sea, North Carolina To West Indies. 385 The Ark Shells. Chest Shells A. Americana, Gray, Has A Larger, More Oblong Shell, With More Ribs, Flat And Each Impressed With A Median Line. These Characters Distinguish The Two Species, Which Occur Together From North Carolina To The West Indies. Living, ...
The Astartes Family Astartidae
The Astartes Family Astartidae Shell Equivalve, Thick, Triangular; Surface Ribbed; Cardinal Teeth Two Or Three Well Developed; Laterals Obscure; Ligament Ex Ternal, Strong; Pallial Line Entire. Genus Astarte, J. Sby. Shell Heavy, Sub-orbicular, Closed, Concentrically Wrinkled Or Furrowed; Epidermis Thick; Muscle Scars Two, Kidney-shaped; Foot Tongue-shaped; Mantle Open; Gills Equal, ...
The Auger Shells Family
The Auger Shells - Family Terebrim. Genus Terebra, Brug. Shell Heavy, Long, Taper-pointed, Regularly Spiral, Of Many Flat Whorls; Aperture Small, Notched In Front; Columella Without Folds; Operculum Horny, Annular; Head Large With Eyes On Tips Of Tentacles; Foot Round In Front, Elongated Behind; Radula Present; Proboscis Large. A Single ...
The Band Shells
The Band Shells Genus Fasciolaria, Lam. Shell Spindle-shaped, With Sharp Spire, And Long, Oval Aperture Ending In An Open, Straight Or Twisted Canal; Body Whorl Swollen; Surface Spirally Banded; Columella Smooth, With A Few Anterior, Oblique Plaits; Lip Crenulated Within; Operculum Claw-shaped, Filling The Aperture. Animal As In Fusus, Slow ...
The Banded Snails Family
The Banded Snails - Family Orthalicidae. Shell As In Bulimus, Thin, Without A Pit; Lip Thin, Simple; Columella Straight; Jaw Pointed In Front, With Oblique Shingling Side Plates. Radula Of Fine Cusped Teeth In V-shaped Rows. A Family Of Tree Snails That Secrete A Thick, Dry Epiphragm And Hiber Nate ...
The Basket Clams Family
The Basket Clams - Family Corbulidae. Genus Corbula, Brug. Habitat.— Cape Hatteras To Haiti. The Yellow Basket Clam (c. Luteola, Cpr.) Is Shaped Like The Familiar Little Donax. Its Yellow Shell Shows Faint Lines Of Growth; The Edges Are Thickened And Turned Inward. Length, Inch. Habitat.— Southern California. The British ...
The Basket Shells Dog_p1
The Basket Shells - Dog Whelks - Family Nassidae Shell Small, Ovate; Spire Elongated; Base Of Aperture A Notch Or Short Recurved Canal; Columella Callous; Operculum Horny; Nucleus Apical. Body With Forked Tail; Foot Long And Broad; Siphon Long; Tentacles Slender, Bearing Eyes; Radula Well Developed; Teeth Arched, Serrate. A ...
The Basket Shells Dog_p2
The Body Is Grayish And Mottled, With The Power To Extend Far Out Of The Shell. Shell And Body Are Well Protected, For They Are Dingy, Like The Muddy Sand In Which They Live. The Latticed Surface Catches The Sand, So That An Exposed Shell Is Hard To Dis Cern ...
The Bears Paw Clam
The Bear's Paw Clam Genus Hippopus, Lam. Ridges And Intervening Sulci Are Adorned With Rows Of Frond-like 364 The Furbelowed Clams Scales. The Ivory Whiteness Of The Ridges Is Varied By Spots Of Rose Purple Arranged To Form Broken But Concentric Bands. The Sulci Are Yellowish. The Shell Lining Is ...
The Black Snails Marsh
The Black Snails - Marsh Snails - Family Melaniidae Shell Spiral, Turreted; Spire Often Worn; Epidermis Dark, Thick; Aperture Notched Or Chambered In Front; Outer Lip Sharp; Operculum Horny, Spiral. Animal With Broad, Short, Foot; Broad, Non-retractile Snout; Tentacles Far Apart, Bearing Short Eyestalks; Tongue Long, Slim, With Seven Series ...
The Blind Shells Tube
The Blind Shells - Tube Shells - Family Caecidae Shell Minute, Tubular, Spiral At First, But Becoming Merely Cylindrical, Often Losing The Spiral Part; One Or More Septa In Posterior End Of Shell; Foot Short, Bearing Horny Operculum; Mantle Thick, Fleshy, Circular; Tentacles Bear Eyes; Gill Single. An Interesting Family ...
The Carpet Shells
The Carpet Shells Genus Tapes, Muhlf. (paphia, Bolt.) Shell Transverse, Ovate, Inequilateral, Margins Entire; Hinge Three-toothed; Siphons United To Middle, Divergent, Incurrent Tube With Arborescent Tentacular Filaments; Foot Lanceolate, Spinning A Byssus. 351 The Venus Clams And Carpet Shells The Wavy Carpet Shell (t. Fluctuosa, Gld.) Has A Thin, Pod ...
The Carrier Shells Family
The Carrier Shells - Family Xenophoridae. Shell Top-shaped, Flattened, With Stones Or Shell Fragments Attached As It Grows; Foot Small, Divided Unequally By A Groove, Anterior Part The Larger; Operculum Horny. A Single Genus With Few Species, Widely Distributed In Tropical Seas. Genus Xenophora, Fisch. These Remarkable Mollusks, Whose Family ...
The Castor Bean Shells
The Castor Bean Shells Genus Ricinula, Lam. Shell Ovate, Solid, Usually With Spiny Processes On The Numer Ous Varices; Aperture Long, Narrow, Toothed; Canal Short, Oblique; Columella Wrinkled; Operculum Horny, Thin, Semi-lunar. Includes Thirty Species, Inhabiting Coral Reefs Among Polynesian Islands. This Genus, Much Like Purpura, Contains Also A Sub-genus ...
The Chambered Nautilus By
The Chambered Nautilus - By Oliver Wendell Holmes. This Is The Ship Of Pearl, Which, Poets Feign, Sails The Unshadowed Main,— The Venturous Bark That Flings On The Sweet Summer Wind Its Purpled Wings In Gulfs Enchanted, Where The Siren Sings, And Coral Reefs Lie Bare ; Where The Cold ...
The Chambered Nautilus Family_p1
The Chambered Nautilus - Family Nautilidae. Shell With Few Whorls, Overlapping More Or Less ; Septa Simple ; Siphuncle Nearly Central ; Aperture Wide. Five Fossil Genera And One Living Genus Constitute This Family. Genus Nautilus, Linn. Shell A Flat Spiral, Pearly, With Yellowish Outer Layer, Cross Banded With Brown; ...
The Chambered Nautilus Family_p2
450 The Chambered Nautilus Two Sets Of Lips Surround The Mouth, Each Bearing About Two Dozen Feeding Tentacles. Two Pairs Of Ciliated Tentacles, One In Front, Another Behind, Each Eye, Are Very Active, Especially When Strong-scented Bait Is Brought Near. They Have Been Dem Onstrated To Be The Organs Of ...
The Chank Shells Family
The Chank Shells - Family Turbinellidae. Shells Large, Heavy, Ventricose, Smooth Or Tuberculated; Columellar Plaits Transverse, Near Middle, Far Apart; Aperture Long; Operculum Thick, Claw-like, With Terminal Nucleus. Animal Shy, Sluggish In Movements. A Small Tropical Family, Allied To The Buccinidx And Fusidx. Genus Turbinella, Lam. Shell Mostly Fusiform, Heavy; ...
The Chink Shells
The Chink Shells Genus Lacuna, Turton Shell Thin, Ovate, Turbinate Or Round, Covered With Epidermis; Aperture Half-moon Shaped; Columella With Groove Or Chink Leading To Umbilicus; Lip Sharp; Operculum Thin, Spiral. The Atlantic Chink Shell (l. Vincta, Turton) Looks At First Glance Like An Elongated And Thin Specimen Of Littorina. ...
The Chitons Coat Of Mail Shells_p1
The Chitons Coat-of-mail Shells - Order Poly Placophora. Shell Composed Of Eight Overlapping Plates, Supporter By A Muscular, Leathery Girdle, Which Extends Beyond The Plates And Folds Under, Forming The Margin Of The Convex Body Shield; Body Flattened, Oval; Foot, The Whole Ventral Surface Of The Body; Mantle Encircles The ...
The Chitons Coat Of Mail Shells_p2
The Californian Coast Is The Best Place To Study Chitons Alive. The Greatest Variety To Be Found In Any One Region Is 238 The Chitons. Coat-of-mail Shells Assembled Here, Including Some Of The Largest And Most Brilliantly Coloured Forms. The Showy Chiton (i Schnochiton Conspicuus, Cpr.) Is A Large And ...
The Chrysalis Shells And
The Chrysalis Shells And Door Shells - Family Pupillidie (pupidie). The Collector, Who Has His Mind On What Of Beauty And Truth The Microscope Yields. This Tiny Mollusk Hustles Along At An Awkward But Speedy Pace For A Snail, Alternately Setting Its Snout On A Spot And Drawing The Body ...
The Clam
The Clam Genus Platyodon, Conr. Shell Unequal, Gaping, Squared At Both Ends, Ventricose; Hinge Sub-central, With Broad Tooth; Surface Cross-striated And Circled With Growth Lines; Faint Groove From Apex To Ventral Mar Gin; Siphons United, Closed By Four Hard Plates. The Cross-barred Broad-tooth Clam (p. Cancellatus. Conr.) Somewhat Resembles The ...
The Club Shells
The Club Shells Genus Clavigella, Lam. Shell With Right Valve Free, Left Imbedded In Tube; Tube Cylin Drical, Frilled Above, Base Bordered With Tubuli; Mantle Frilled, With Tentacular Processes. Six Living And Fourteen Fossil Species. Mediterranean Sea To Australia And Pacific Islands. 310 The Watering-pot Shells And Club Shells The ...
The Cockles Heart Shells_p1
The Cockles. Heart Shells Family Cardiidae. Shell Regularly Equivalve, Heart-shaped, Radiately Ribbed; Sculpture Of Posterior Area Different From Front And Sides; Hinge With One Or Two Cardinal Teeth And Two Laterals On Each Valve; Ligament Short, External; Muscle Scars Squarish; Pallial Line Sinuous Behind; Mantle Open In Front; Ocelli On ...
The Cockles Heart Shells_p2
Habitat.— Labrador To New York. The Basket Cockle (c. Corbis, Mart.) Is The Most Abundant And Familiar Cockle On The West Coast. The End View Is The Ex Act Outline Of A St. Valentine Heart. The Beaks Meet, The Lips Interlock Their Crenulated Margins; The Surfaces Are Finely Striated Across ...
The Coffee Bean Shells
The Coffee Bean Shells Genus Trivia, Gray Shells Cross-ribbed, Roundish, With A Concavity On The Inner Face Of The Ribbed Columella. Mantle Covered With Papilla; Foot Extended Far Out Behind The Shell. The Shell (t. Pediculus, Linn.) Is A Pinkish Button-like Shell, Tinged With Brown And Marked With Six Large ...
The Common Squids Family
The Common Squids - Family Loliginidie. Genus Loligo, Lam. Body Long; Fins Present, Variable In Size; Tentacles Partially Retractile; Pen As Long As The Back, Slender, Chitinous, Feathered Posteriorly, Pointed In Front, Keeled Below. Distribution World Wide. Quite A Large Patch Of Colour By The Contraction Of The Muscles Attached ...
The Conch Shells Family
The Conch Shells - Family Strombidae. Shell Heavy, Porcellanous, With Conical Spire; Aperture Elongated, Channeled At Both Ends; Outer Lip Generally Thickened And Dilated; Curved Sinus For The Head Near Basal Canal; Oper Culum Claw-like, Horny, Notched On Edge; Foot Narrow In Front, Arched And Broad Behind; Head With Contractile ...
The Cone Shells Family_p1
The Cone Shells Family Conidae. Genus Conus, Linn. Shell Heavy, Porcellanous, Inversely Conical; Spire Broad, Body Whorl Tapering To Notched Base; Aperture Long, Narrow; Lip Thin, With Sinus At Suture; Surface Usually Smooth, With Stria? Crossing The Whorl, Variously Marked, Under Thin Epidermis; Operculum Claw-shaped; Head With Snout Enclosed In ...
The Cone Shells Family_p2
The Promethean Cone (c. Prometheus, Hwass), Is The Giant, Occasionally Measuring Nine Inches In Length, Though This Is Far 112 The Cone Shells Above The Average. As Cones Go, This Is Unusually Thin For Its Size. The Spire Is Rounded But Very Low; The Sutures Are Chan Neled. Each Whorl ...
The Cone Shells Family_p3
H Abitat. —east Africa To Philippines. 114 The Cone Shells The Virgin Cone (c. Vir Go, Linn.) Is Striking In Its Lack Of Colour Markings So Characteristic Of The Family. The Heavy Shell Is Yellowish White With Violet Stain On The Basal Part. Fine Striations Cover The Surface. Polished Specimens ...
The Cowries Venus Shells_p1
The Cowries. Venus Shells - Family Cypraeidae Shell Solid, Oval, Or Pear-shaped, Ventricose, Highly Polished And Handsomely Coloured; Spire Covered By Body Whorl In Adults; Aperture Long, Narrow, Ending In Two Short Canals, Both Lips Toothed; Operculum Wanting; Animal Large, Highly Coloured; Mantle Two-lobed, Reflected Over The Shell, Its Surface ...
The Cowries Venus Shells_p2
Reeve Quotes A Letter From Lieutenant Hankey Of The Royal Navy, Written In 1844, In Which This Gentlemen Declared That He Had Seen More Than One Specimen Crawl Away Into A Sheltered Hollow, Where The Shell, Enveloped In The Mantle Lobes, Became Thinner And Dull In Colour And Finally Cracked, ...
The Cowries Venus Shells_p3
127 The Cowries. Venus Shells A Collector Describes The Animal As Creamy White, The Mantle Elegantly Veined With Black, And Fringed With Numerous Simple Processes, Ringed With White And Tipped With Lilac. The Snout Is Buff, The Tentacles Veined With Black, And The Siphon Yellow With Fringed Tip. Indian Ocean, ...
The Cowries Venus Shells_p4
I 29 The Cowries. Venus Shells On The Back Is A Brown Central Area Edged With A Band Of Darker Brown That Follows The Outline Of The Shell. It Is Not Frequently Found And Is A Prize To Any Collector. The Shells Are Particularly Bright And Glossy When Taken Alive. ...
The Cowries Venus Shells_p5
The First Specimen Was Found In A Private Collection ; It 131 The Cowries. Venus Shells Was Labelled "the Brindle Cowry Of The Persian Gulf." No Further History Of Its Has Ever Come To Light. A Second Was Found On The Southern Shore Of New Guinea. It Is Very High ...
The Cross Barred Shells Family
The Cross-barred Shells Family Cancellariidae Genus Cancellaria, Lam. Shell Spiral, Cross-ribbed Upon The Whorls; Aperture Oblong, Angulated Or Drawn Out, Bearing Canal In Front; Columella With Folds; Outer Lip Ribbed; Operculum Wanting; Foot Broad In Front; Head Bears Tentacles With Eyes At Base; Radula Wanting; Snout Small. Vegetable Feeders On ...
The Cup And Saucer Limpets
The Cup-and-saucer Limpets Genus Crucibulum, Schum. Shell Shield-shaped With Funnel-shaped Cup Inside. The Limpet (c. Scutellatum, Gray) Has A Heavy, Shield-shaped Shell With Strong Radiating Ribs Crossed By Concentric Ridges. The Hooked Beak Is Near The Centre. The General Colour Is Brown. Inside The Shell Is Of A Darker Colour ...
The Cuttle Sepia Family
The Cuttle. Sepia - Family Sepiidae. Shell Six To Ten Inches Long, Internal, Consisting Of A Broad, Leaf-like Expanse Of Spongy, Chalky Substance, The Posterior Portion Narrowed To A Beak And Made Up Of Thin Plates With Air Spaces Between, The Front Portion Not Chambered, Broadened And Much Thickened. Body ...
The Cylinder Shells Family
The Cylinder Shells - Family Cylindrellidae. Shell Screw-like, Turreted, Many-whorled, The Last Whorl More Or Less Contracted And Detached; Peristome Reflected, Pro Longed, Apex Often Cut Off. Animal Like Helix. Genus Cylindrella, Pfr. Characters Of The Family. Many Species Of Small Mollusks, Of Sluggish Movements. West Indies. Extended Snout And ...
The Cyrenas And Pea
The Cyrenas And Pea Shells - Family Cyrenidae Shell Equivalve, Sub-triangular, Small; Hinge With Two Or Three Cardinals, And Laterals; Surface Smooth, With Periostracum; Foot Large, Without Byssus; Siphons Short. Sexes United In The Individual; Reproduction Viviparous. Active Bivalves, Living In Fresh Or Brackish Water, Believed To Be Derived From ...
The Devil Fishes Octopi_p1
The Devil Fishes. Octopi - Family Octopodidae. Head Very Large; Arms Eight, Long, All Alike, More Or Less Webbed; Suckers Usually In Two Rows ; Mantle Supported By Columns Or Bands Of Muscle. Genus Octopus, D'orb. Body Much Shorter Than Arms; Suckers Few, In Two Rows; Arms Extensible, Large, Webbed ...
The Devil Fishes Octopi_p2
446 The Devil-fishes. Octopi It Is The Experience Of Keepers Of Aquaria That The Curled Octopus, Eledone Cirrosa, Is Never Safely Put Into A Tank With Octopus Vulgaris. A Fierce Cannibalistic Zeal Consumes The Latter, And He Consumes Every Specimen Of His More Gentle-mannered Cousin. Even Larger Individuals Than Himself ...
The Dolphin Shells
The Dolphin Shells Genus Delphinula, Lam. Shell Of A Flattened Top Shape, Solid, Heavy, With Large Round Aperture And Deep Umbilicus; Body Whorl Turns Downward, Nearly Free From The One Next To It; All Whorls Keeled And Spinose Or Set With Horns. The Fringed Dolphin Shell (d. Laciniata, Lam.) Is ...
The Door Shells
The Door Shells Genus Clausilia, Drap. Shell Slenderly Fusiform, Usually Sinistral, Aperture Ear Shaped, Guarded By Wall Ridges, And Closed By A Shelly Plate At Tached To The Columella By An Elastic Foot. It Is For The Exclusion Of Small Beetles And Other Insects. A Genus Of Seven Hundred Species, ...
The Dove Shells Family
The Dove Shells Family Columbellidae. Shell Solid, Small, Ovately Oblong Or Triangular, Sometimes Fusiform; Spire Exserted; Anterior Canal Short; Columella Arched, Tubercled Below; Outer Lip Thickened, Uncurved At Middle, Toothed On Inner Face; Epidermis Present; Operculum Horny; Head Long, Eyes At Base Of Tentacles, Foot Prolonged In Front; Mantle Not ...
The Duck Bill Shells And
The Duck-bill Shells And Lantern Shells - Family Anatinidae. An Oriental Genus Of Thirty Species Named From A Fanciful Resemblance Of The Valve To A Duck's Bill. The Truncated Shell (a. Truncata, Lam. ), Abruptly Squared At The Posterior End, Rounded In Front, Flat Tened And Somewhat Incurving On The ...
The Ear Shells Abalones_p1
The Ear Shells. Abalones - Family Haliotidae. Shell Pearly, Ear-shaped, Shallow, Spiral, With Outer Coil Very Large, Enclosing The Body; Aperture Large, Oval; Operculum Wanting; Left Side Of Shell Punctured By A Curving Row Of Holes; Muscle Scar Large, Horse-shoe Shaped; Foot Large, Fleshy, Fringed; Mantle Slit Along Row Of ...
The Ear Shells Abalones_p2
In His Native, Haunts The Abalone Clings With A Death Grip, If Only He Has Warning. It Is Impossible To Tear Him From His Place. When Undisturbed The Creature Lumbers Along With A Clumsy, Swinging Gait, Not Unlike That Of An Elephant. He Makes The Best Time On The Surfaces ...
The Ear Snails Family
The Ear Snails Family Auriculidae. Genus Auricula, Linn. Shell Spiral, Cone-shaped, Usually Solid, Stout To Slender; Internal Partitions Usually Absorbed; Aperture Ear-shaped, Strongly Defended By Teeth; Lung Present; Head Bears Snout And Two Dilated Buccal Lobes; Teeth Very Small, Numerous ; Upper Jaw Semi-lunar, Horny; Eyes Sessile On Bases Of ...
The Egg Shells Family
The Egg Shells - Family Ovulidae. Shell Involute, Body Whorl Covering The Spire, Smooth, Porceflanous, Whitish Or Dull In Colouring; Aperture Long, Its Extremities Usually Drawn Out To Form Two Canals; Inner Lip Smooth, Outer Usually Ridged, Bent Inward; Foot Large; Mantle Reflected Over Shell When In Use. One Genus ...
The Eulimas Familyeulimidae
The Eulimas - Family Eulimidae. Shell Small, Porcellanous, White, Polished, With Slender Spire; Aperture Oval; Foot Elongated; Proboscis Long, Retractile; Jaws And Radula Wanting. A Little-known Family Of Small Mol Lusks Parasitic On Bivalves, Sea-urchins And Sea-cucumbers. Genus Eulima, Risso Characters Of The Family. Spire Often Curved To One Side. ...
The Eupleuras
The Eupleuras Genus Eupleura, H. And A. Ads. Shell Ranelliform, With Two Prominent, And Intermediate Smaller Varices; Aperture Toothed Within. Five Species. Distribu Tion, West Indies, Atlantic Coast Of United States And Panama. This Confusing Genus Has The Shell Of A Urosalpinx, The Teeth Of A Murex, The Varices Of ...
The File Shells Family
The File Shells Family Limidae. Genus Lima, Brug. And Set With Rows Of Fine, File Teeth, Had Rose Pink Mantle Fringes, Short But Numerous, Which Merged Into White For One-third Of The Border. This Species Is L. Dehiscens, Conr. Length, L To 3 Inches. Habitat.— Monterey Southward, California. The Gaping ...