The Sea Hares Family
The Sea Hares - Family Aplysiidae Genus Aplysia, Linn. And Takes The Liberty Of Ranging Backward To Shallower Water. At Breeding Time The Creatures Flock Together. The Eggs Are Laid Among Seaweeds In Gelatinous, Thread-like Cases. The Name Aplysia Means Indelible. The Fluid Emitted Was Once Believed To Be A ...
The Sea Snails Bleeding
The Sea Snails - Bleeding Tooth - Family Neritidae. This Genus Includes About Two Hundred Species. They Live In Rivers, Except A Few Marine And Brackish Water Species, And Some Which Are Amphibious, Clinging To Roots Of Trees On River Margins. A Few Are Terrestrial But Live Among The Tree ...
The Semeles Family Semelidie
The Semeles Family Semelidie. Shell Thin, Almost Equivalve, Gaping And Usually Flexuose Behind; Ligament External, Short; Cartilage In The Cardinal Pit; Siphons Long, Divergent. Genus Semele, Schum. 336 The Semeles Gray, The Veteran Collector For The Marine Biological Laboratory, Who Knows The Sea Bottom Of That Region, And The Inhabitants ...
The Sentinel Shells Family
The Sentinel Shells - Family Assiminiidae. Shell Small, Globose-conical, With Sharp Lip; Operculum Of Few Coils, Horny, Nucleus On The Side; Gills Replaced By A Pul Monary Sac; Tentacles Wanting; Eyes On Very Long Stalks, And The Active Mollusks Appear To Be Keeping A Sharp Lookout For Danger. Terrestrial Or ...
The Shell Bearing Sea Slugs
The Shell-bearing Sea Slugs - Sub-order Tectibranchiata. This Division Embraces Families Of The Order Opisthobran Chiata, In Which The Shell Is Seen To Disappear By Gradual Changes, Becoming Thinner And More Enveloped In Folds Of The Mantle And Foot As It Diminishes In Size. The Right Gill Is Usually Present, ...
The Shell
The Shell It Is A Conical Tube Spirally Wound To The Right About A Central Axis, The Columella. The Closed, Pointed End Is The Apex; The Coiled Whorls Form The Spire. The Last Coil Is Called The Body Whorl, For In It The Body Lies. The Spout-like Prolongation Is The ...
The Shield Snails River
The Shield Snails. River Limpets Genus Ancylus, Geof. Shell Patelliform, Not Spiral, Thin; Apex Sinistral; Jaws, Three; Radula Broad, Crowded With Teeth; Foot Large; Mantle Included; Tentacles Triangular; Pulmonary Orifice Protected By A Flap. A. Rivularis, Say, Has A Horny, Opaque Shell, With Blunt, Sub-central Apex. The Large, Oval Aperture ...
The Ship Worm Family
The Ship Worm Family Teredidae. Genus Teredo, Linn. Into The Wood, And It Is Honeycombed With Tubes. Long, Worm Like Bodies Inhabit Shell-lined Burrows. The Pallets Have Sprung Forward To Cover The Tips Of The Retracted Siphons, And Form A Door Barring The Entrance Effectually. The Pallets, By Compressing And ...
The Siphon Shells Family
The Siphon Shells Family Siphonariidae. Genus Siphonaria, Blainv. Shell Patelliform, Apex Sub-central, Posterior Muscle Scar Horse-shoe Shaped, Divided On The Right By A Deep Siphonal Groove. Animal With Broad Two-lobed Head; No Tentacles; Rudimentary Branchim Form Triangular Folds Of The Lining Membrane Of The Mantle. Marine Mollusks Chiefly Of The ...
The Slipper Shells Cup And Saucer
The Slipper Shells - Cup-and-saucer Limpets - Family Calyptraide Shell Limpet-shaped With More Or Less Spiral Apex, Porcel Lanous, Interior Polished, Usually With A Septum Or Internal Plate Of Variable Shape; Operculum Wanting; Pot Flattened; Body Not Twisted; Gill Deeply And Finely Feathered; Head With Long Snout; Eyes Near External ...
The Slit Limpets
The Slit Limpets Genus Emarginula, Lam. Shell Oval, Conical, Like A Clown's Pointed Cap, With Narrow Vertical Slit In From The Front Margin. Cabinet Specimens, How Ever Small, Can Be Easily Traced To Their Proper Genus By Their Limpet Shape And This Peculiar Slit. The Few North American Species Are ...
The Slit Shells Family
The Slit Shells - Family Pleurotomariidae Shell Top-shaped, Pearly Within, With A Broad Anal Sinus In The Outer Whorl Which Closes Gradually, Forming The "sinus Band." A Family Of Many Fossil Forms Allied To Haliotidx. Genus Pleurotomaria, Defr. Characters Of The Family. Eleven Hundred Fossil Species Of This Genus Are ...
The Smoke Shells
The Smoke Shells Genus Typhis, Montf. Shell Ovate Or Oblong, With Projecting Hollow Tubes Between The Three Spinose Varices; Aperture Roundish, Prolonged Into Closed Siphonal Canal; Operculum As In Murex. Species: Fifteen Recent, Eight Fossil. Distribution, Warm Seas, Tropical America, Cape Of Good Hope, Indian Ocean, Pacific Islands, China, Australia. ...
The Snailery
The Snailery Intimate Acquaintance With Air-breathing Mollusks Can Be Cultivated Only By Bringing Specimens From Their Native Haunts Into Our Own Homes. Here They Will Be Perfectly Comfortable If Their Surroundings Are Made Homelike. A Snailery May Well Be A Glass Jar Like The Aquarium In Size And Shape. Put ...
The Soft Parts_p1
The Soft Parts The Mantle Is The Fleshy Web That Covers The Body And Lines The Shell. In The Spire It Is Attached To The Body, And Is Very Thin. In The Body Whorl It Is Free From The Body, And En Closes The Mantle Cavity. It Forms A Thickened ...
The Soft Parts_p2
Course Of The Blood: I. Heart To The System. 2. System To The Kidney. 3. Kidney To Gill. 4. Gill To Heart. The Auricle Is The Receiver Of The Blood. The Ventricle Is The Pump. The Pericardium Is The Loose Bag Containing The Heart. The Arteries Distribute Pure Blood Throughout ...
The Soft_p1
The Soft Parts.— By Severing The Adductor Muscles With A Knife Blade Close To The Left Valve, And Then Breaking The Liga Ment, The Soft Parts Of A Live Clam Are Revealed, Lying Undisturbed 305 A Typical Bivalve Mollusk In The Right Valve. The Mantle Spreads Over Everything. It Lines ...
The Soft_p2
The Heart Lies In A Loose Bag, The Pericardium, Just Anterior To The Posterior Adductor Muscle. The Single, Muscular Ventricle Receives The Pure Blood From The Lateral Auricles, To Which It Flows From The Gills. The Intestine Passes Directly Through The Ven Tricle. The Blood Is Distributed Through Closed Tubes, ...
The Spindle Shells And
The Spindle Shells And Band Shells. Family Fusidae Shell More Or Less Spindle-shaped; Varices None; Lip Not Thickened; Operculum Ovate; Animal As In Murex. Genus Fusus, Lam. Shell Spindle-shaped; Spire Many-whorled, Sharp-pointed, Longer Than Body Whorl; Colour Yellow To Brown, Sometimes Spotted, Never Banded; Aperture Oval, Striate Within; Canal Long, ...
The Spire Shells And
The Spire Shells And - Flood Shells - Family Rissoidae Shell Small, Top-shaped Or Elongated; Mouth Rounded, Scarcely Channeled. A Family Of Small Marine Mollusks Living On Seaweeds, To Which They Are Suspended By A Mucous Thread. Genus Rissoa, Freim. Characters Of The Family. Two Hundred Species, Abundant Chiefly In ...
The Spirula Familyspiruliidae
The Spirula - Family Spiruliidae - Genus Spirula, Lam. Shell Partially External, Small, Delicate, A Flat, Loose Spiral, Divided Into Chambers By Very Convex Septa; Lining Pearly; Siphuncle On Ventral Side Of Chambers; Body Much Larger Than Shell; Head Large; Eyes Prominent, Arms Ten, Short, Set With Sessile Suckers; Tentacles ...
The Staircase Shells Ladder
The Staircase Shells - Ladder Shells - Wentletraps - Family Scaliidae. Graceful, Turreted, Heavy, With Sharp Spire Of Ten Whorls, Flattened, Close-set, Each Bearing Revolving Ridges And Crossed By Oblique, Prominent White Ribs. The Ground Colour Is Brown Or Bluish. A Rib, Angled At The Inner Point, Edges The Round ...
The Sun Dial Shells Family
The Sun-dial Shells - Family Solariidae. Shell Spiral, Depressed, Conical, Top-shaped Or Flat; Aper Ture Angular; Lip And Columella Simple; Umbilicus Wide, Deep, Usually With Scalloped Margin; Lining Not Pearly; Operculum Spiral. Animal With Large Oval Foot, Notched In Front; The Eyes On The Bases Of The Stout Tentacles; Radula ...
The Surf Clams Hen
The Surf Clams. Hen Clams - Family Mactrid1e. Sub-genus Rata Is A Small Group Of Surf Clams With Widely Gaping, Thick-lipped Valves. A Sharp Ridge Defines The Posterior Area. The Valves Are Almost Heart-shaped,thin, With Concentric Folds On The Surface. The Channeled Rmta (l. Canaliculata, Say) Has The Char Acteristics ...
The Tellen Shells Sunset_p1
The Tellen Shells. Sunset Shells - Wedge Shells - Family Tellinidie Shell Free, Compressed, Usually Equivalve And Closed; Tex Ture Translucent, Porcellanous; Hinge With Two Cardinal Teeth; Ligament External, On Short End Of Shell; Pallial Sinus Deep; Foot Flat, Long, Extensible; Byssus Wanting; Mantle Fringed, Wide Open In Front; Gills ...
The Tellen Shells Sunset_p2
It Is Rectangular, The Beaks At One Corner And The Ligament At One End. Length, I Inch. Habitat.— West Coast. A Complete Series Of West Coast Tellens Would Include, Besides Those Described Here, Three Or Four Species Scarcely Larger Than A Finger Nail. Genus Macoma, Leach Shell Oval, Or Almost ...
The Thick Shelled Hearts Family
The Thick-shelled Hearts - Family Crassatellidae. Shell Bivalve, Oblong, Posterior End Produced; Sculpture Consists Of Concentric Grooves; Epidermis Thick; Hinge With Few Cardinal Teeth; Pit On Each Valve. Genus Crassatella, Lam. Shell With Thick, Solid Valves, Ventricose; Ligament Internal; Lunule Distinct; Epidermis Dense, Brown. Chiefly Distributed In Tropical Regions; But ...
The Thorny Oysters Family
The Thorny Oysters Family Spondylidae Genus Spondylus, Linn. Shell Irregular, Attached By Right Valve, Rarely Free; Valves Radiately Ribbed, Set With Spiny Or Leaf-like Scales; Hinge Of Two Curved, Interlocking Teeth In Each Valve; Mantle Open; Gills Separate; Foot Small, Cylindrical. Inhabits Warm Seas. Living Species Seventy; Fossil Eighty. The ...
The Three Angled Clams Family
The Three-angled Clams - Family Trigoniidae. Shell Equivalve, Closed, Three-angled, With Beaks Pointing Backward; Ligament External; Hinge Teeth Few, Diverging; Interior Pearly; Pallial Line Simple; Mantle Open; Foot Long, Bent; Gills, Two Pairs. Marine. Genus Trigonia, Brug. Characters Of The Family. The Distinctions Of This Small Genus Of Australian Bivalves ...
The Tooth Shells Class
The Tooth Shells Class Scaphopoda. Shell Tubular, Tapering, Curved, Open At Both Ends; 1 To 5 Inches Long; Body Elongated, Curved, Symmetrical, Attached To Shell By Muscles Near Posterior End; Mantle Lines Shell, Forms Tube Which Flares At Anterior End; Surface Absorbs Oxygen, Acting As Organ Of Respiration; Head Rudimentary; ...
The Top Shells And_p1
The Top Shells And Dolphin Shells - Family Trochiae Shell Top-shaped Or Conical, Spiral, Pearly Within; Oper Culum Thin, Horny, Spiral, Usually Circular, With A Central Nucleus; Head With Short, Broad Snout, Long Tentacles And Simple Eyes; Radula Well Developed; Three To Five Fleshy Cirrhi On Each Side Of Mantle ...
The Top Shells And_p2
Genus Livona, Gray Shell Top-shaped, Heavy, Large, With Deep Umbilicus; Whorls Rounded; Aperture Roundish; Outer Lip Sharp-edged; Operculum Concave Outside, Thin, Smooth, Chestnut Inside, With Olive Green Muscle Scar; Body Fringed With Numerous Cirrhi. The West Indian Top Shell (livona Pica, Linn.) Is Found In Charlotte Harbor, West Florida, But ...
The Top Shells And_p3
Habitat.— California. The Largest American Species Is C. Canaliculatum, Martyn, An Inch And A Half High. It Is Conical; Its Revolving Ribs Sharp Edged And Separated By Spiral Canals, Which, However, Are Not Purple. The Ribs Are Pale Yellow Or Ashy, The Depressions Brownish. Habitat.— Pacific Coast. The Blue Top ...
The Tritons And Frog_p1
The Tritons And Frog Shells - Family Tritonidae. Shell Spiral, Thick, With One Or Two Varices To Each Whorl; Aperture Round, With Thick Lips, And Anterior Canal; Operculum Present; Mantle Enclosed; Foot, Small,, Siphon Short; Lingual Ribbon Set With Seven Rows Of Teeth;' Eyes On Tentacles. A Large Tropical Family ...
The Tritons And Frog_p2
The Species In Somewhat Variable Forms Occurs Up The Atlantic Coast Of Europe To The British Channel, And South To The Canary 5o The Tritons And Frog Shells Islands. In The East, It Is Found In Japan, Australia And New Zealand, And In Natal And Mauritius In Southern Africa. Tryon ...
The Trophons
The Trophons Genus Trophon, Montf. Shell Fusiform, Thin, White, With Numerous Sharp Lamelliform Varices; Spaces Between Them, Smooth Or Spirally Ribbed; Spire Elevated; Canal Open, Turned To Left; Aperture Oval, Smooth, Often 40 The Oyster Drill Dark-coloured. This Genus Is Distributed Chiefly In Cold Waters. One Group Is Arctic, Another ...
The Tun Shells Wine
The Tun Shells - Wine Jars Fig Shells - Family Doliidae. Rather Heavy For Their Size. Length, 3 Inches. Habitat.— Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Philippine Islands. Sub-genus Malea The Grinning Tun (d. Ringens, Swn.) Is The Heaviest Species In The Genus. The Grin Is Produced By The Turning Backward Of ...
The Turban Shells And_p1
The Turban Shells And Star Shells - Family Turbinidae Shell Spiral, Turban-shaped, Solid, With Simple Circular Or Oval Aperture; Operculum Calcareous, Heavy, Convex Outside, With Thin,flat, Spiral,horny Layer On Inner Face, Nucleus Not Central. Body With Oval Foot, Square In Front, Bearing Cirrhi Along Sides; Head Bears A Veil Between ...
The Turban Shells And_p2
210 The Turban Shells And Star Shells T. Fluctuosa, Wood, Of The West Coast, Is About Two Inches High And Perhaps A Trifle Wider. Outside Of The Pearly Shell Is A Thin Coloured Layer, Brown And White In A Bright Tesselated Pat Tern, Moulded Over The Sculpturing Which Consists Of ...
The Typical Conchs_p1
The Typical Conchs Genus Strombus, Linn. Shell Ovate, Solid, Usually Tubercled, Lip Dilated Only When Full Grown, Polished Within. About Sixty-five Species, Chiefly Of Large Size, Represented In Florida By A Few West Indian Species. The Queen Conch (s. Gigas, Linn.) Is The Largest Mollusk Native To Any Part Of ...
The Typical Conchs_p2
These Creatures Are Easily Captured With A Bait Of Meat. In Turn They Are Used As Food By Part Of The Population Of The Bahamas, And At Key West: Indeed, The Inhabitants Are Called "conchs" In Mild Contempt By Floridians And Others Whose Taste In Shell Fish Does Not Include ...
The Typical Whelks
The Typical Whelks Genus Buccinum, Linn. Shell Oval Or Oblong; Spire Elevated, Acute; Epidermis Horny; Colour Dull Ashen; Aperture Oval, Large; Canal Wide, Short; Columella Expanded, Smooth; Outer Lip Thin, Smooth Inside; Operculum Ovate, Nucleus Sub-marginal, Small; Radula Prominent. A Carnivorous Genus Of Few Species, In Northern Waters. The Waved ...
The Umbrella Shells Family
The Umbrella Shells Family Umbrellidie Genus Umbrella, Lam. Shell Flattened, Limpet-like, Thin, Calcareous; Foot Large, Thick, Notched; Snout Large, Retractile, With Lobed Veil; Tentacles Ear-like. Six Species Of Marine Mollusks, Scarcely Protected By Their Oblong, Lid-like Shells, Under Which The Branchix And Other Delicate Organs Lie. Habitat.— East The Mediterranean ...
The Unicorn Shells
The Unicorn Shells Genus Monoceros, Lam. Distinguished From Purpura By The Distinct Tooth Or Horn Developed On The Outer Lip Near The Canal. A Small Genus Almost Exclusively Confined To The West Coast Of America. The Angled Unicorn (m. Engonatum, Conr.) Lives Among Seaweeds On Rocks Swept By The Tides. ...
The Valve Shells Family
The Valve Shells - Family Valvatidae. Shell Depressed, Often Almost Discoidal, Umbilicated; Oper Culum Round; Epidermis Green. Animal With Long Snout And Tentacles; Foot Cleft In Front; Branchial Plume Long, Branched, Thrust Partially Out When The Mollusk Is Walking. Teeth Of Radula In Seven Series, Broad, Hooked. Fresh Water Or ...
The Velvet Shells
The Velvet Shells Genus Velutina, Flim. Shell Thin, Ear-shaped, Mostly External, Calcareous, Fragile, Covered With A Velvety Or Powdery Epidermis; Aperture Large, Round, Without Operculum; Foot Large, Oblong. Marine, Living Among Stones Near Low Tide, Or Out At Sea. The Velvet Shell (v. Lavigata, Pennant), Found Northward From Cape Cod, ...
The Venus Clams And_p1
The Venus Clams And Carpet Shells - Family Veneridae. Feet Of The Wading Man Range Under The Surface Of The Sandy Mud, And Rout Out The Individual Clams One At A Time. The Young Clams Of The Typical Species Are Almost As Ten Der And Fine Flavoured As Oysters. Adult ...
The Venus Clams And_p2
Habitat.— Nova Scotia To Cape Hatteras, West Coast Of Florida. Sub-genus Callista, March The Giant Callista (c. Gigantea, Gmel.) Is Shaped And Painted Like A Sunset Shell, But The Plaid Pattern Is Oftenest Developed In Dull Blue, Lilac Or Gray, On A Pale Ground. A Brown Band Of Some Width ...
The Violet Snails Family_p1
The Violet Snails Family Ianthinidae. Shell Spiral, Helicoid, Fragile, Semi-transparent, Violet Coloured, About 1 Inches In Diameter; No Operculum; Head Prolonged Into A Large Snout; Radula Very Large; No Eyes; Ten Tacles Short; Gill Feather-like; Foot Small, Attached To A Gelatinous Float Filled With Air Bubbles To Which The Egg ...
The Violet Snails Family_p2
161 'the Violet Snails I Cannot Draw From My Own Experience A Vivid Picture Of A Stranded School Of Violet Snails, But I Here Quote Mr. Charles T. Simpson's Letter To The Nautilus, April, 1897: I Had Collected For Many Years And In Many Countries, But Had Never Found, Perhaps, ...
The Volutes And Melon_p1
The Volutes And Melon Shells - Family Volutidae Shell Usually Thick, Often Shining, Showy, Usually Large, Fusiform, Cylindrical, Oval Or Globular; Columella Projecting An Teriorly, With Several Revolving Folds; Aperture Notched, Canal Not Produced; Apex Blunt, Papillary; Operculum Generally Wanting; Body Highly Coloured; Foot Broad In Front; Head Dilated Into ...
The Volutes And Melon_p2
The Flag Volute (v. Vexillum, Lam.) Is A Small Flesh-tinted 8o The Volutes And Melon Shells Shell With Narrow Bands Of Orange Revolving Around Its Whorls. Faint Cloudings Of The Same Colour Often Occur, And Blotches Of It Mark The Nodules On The Shoulder Of The Body Whorl. The Apex ...
The Volutes And Melon_p3
82 The Volutes And Melon Shells One Worn Specimen Was The Only Material Lamarck Had When He Described This Species. Three Bright, Perfect Specimens In England Were Accessible To Reeve In 1850. They Came From The East Coast Of Africa, But Nobody Knows What Locality. The Large-spired Volute (v. Megaspira, ...
The Warped Shells
The Warped Shells Genus Distorsio, Bolt. This Genus Differs From Triton In Its Distorted Spire, And Its Irregular, Contracted, Thin, Flaring Aperture. It Has Three Species 53 The Tritons And Frog Shells Distributed Widely In Warm Seas. D. Cancellinus, Roissy, Is The Type. Is Cancellated, With Brown Bands On A ...
The Watering Pot Shells And
The Watering-pot Shells And Club Shells - Family Gastrochienidae Genus Aspergillum, Lam. Shell Small, Both Valves Cemented To The Walls Of A Trumpet Shaped Tube, Which Bears Several Ruffles Toward The Large End; Base Of The Tube Is Perforated And Ornamented With Minute Tubes Containing Filamentous Mantle Processes. Animal Elongated; ...
The Wedge Shells
The Wedge Shells Genus Donax, Linn. Shell Wedge-shaped, Triangular, Ventricose, Posterior End Abruptly Truncated Just Behind The Hinge; Anterior End Prolonged And Rounded; Surface Finely Cancellated, The Valve Margins Meet In Fine Interlocking Teeth; Hinge Teeth, Three In Each Valve, Liga Ment External. Mantle Fringed; Siphons Short, Divergent; Foot Large, ...
The Whelks Trumpet Shells_p1
The Whelks. Trumpet Shells Family Buccinidae. Shell Usually Thick, Oblong To Fusiform, With Canal Of Moder Ate Length Or Short; Periostracum Thick; Columella Without Folds; Outer Lip Simple, Often Thickened; Operculum Horny. A Large And Aggressive Family Of Carnivorous Habits, Ranging From Tropical To Circumpolar Seas. Genus Melongena, Schum. Shell ...
The Whelks Trumpet Shells_p2
This Mollusk Is Large, The Average Shell Three Or Four Inches Long And Two Inches Wide. Extreme Specimens Are Eight Inches Long. The Shell Is Solid, Dull-lustred, Yellowish Or Reddish, With Faint Spiral Ridges. The Shetland Islanders Convert Them Into "elegant Lamps," Hanging Them In A Horizontal Position With The ...
The White Lipped Snails
The White-lipped Snails Genus Polygyra, Say Shell Many-whorled, Globose To Flat-coiled, Keeled Or Rounded, Plain Or Banded; Aperture Plain Or Obstructed By Three Teeth; Lips Reflexed; Foot Long, Narrow, Granulated. A Large Genus Including Triodopsis And Mesodon Of Rafi Nesque. Its Distribution Centres In Eastern North America, But There Are ...
The Wide Mouthed Shells Family
The Wide-mouthed Shells - Family Stomatellidae Shell Small, Pearly Within, Flattened, Limpet-like Or Ear Shaped And Spiral, But Without Holes Or Slit. This Family Lives In Tropical Regions Of The Pacific Ocean. Classification Is Likely To Need Revision As The Living Mollusks Are Studied. Few Have Ever Been Seen. Within ...
The Window Shells Family
The Window Shells - Family Placunidae. Genus Placuna, Sol. Habitat.— Coasts Of China And India. The Chinese Window Shell (p. Placenta, Linn.) Has Flat, Circular Valves, Lying So Close As To Crowd The Animal If It Is Much Thicker Than A Sheet Of Paper. They Are Translucent, Faintly Rosy-rayed When ...
The Worm Shells And
The Worm Shells And Pod - Shells - Family Vermetidae Shell Tubular, With Septa; Regularly Spiral When Young; Whorls Free, Irregular When Adult; Aperture Round; Operculum Circular, Concave On Outside; Body Worm-like; Head Long, With Tentacles And Eyes; Foot Rudimentary. Mollusks Usually Attached To Coral Rocks Or Imbedded In Sponges. ...
Typical Murex_p1
Typical Murex Shell With Three Varices Bearing Long, Straight Spines; Spire Elevated ; Canal Long, Straight, Narrow. The Venus's Comb, Or Thin Spine Murex (m. Tenuispina, Lam.) Is The Most Beautiful Of All The Rock Shells, And The Most Wonderful In Structure. The Slender, Straight Canal Is Twice As Long ...
Typical Murex_p2
- Sub-genus Chicoreus, Montf. Shell Ovate Or Pear-shaped; Varices, Three, Leaf-like, Some Times Spiny; Canal Short, Curved, Wide, Nearly Closed. Species Mainly Oriental; Some Are West African; Others West Indian. The Burnt Murex (m. Adustus, Lam.) Has Jet Black Fronds, Short, Leaf-like And Irregularly Spiny, Crowding The Varices Of The ...
Typical Murex_p3
The Murex (m. Brandaris, Linn.) Somewhat Closely Resembles M. Cornuta, But Is Smaller Throughout. Each Of Its Six Varices Bears Two, Short Diverging Spines. This Common 32 The Murex Shells. Rock Shells Mediterranean Murex Is Eaten By Poor People Along The Coast, Though It Is No Delicacy. The Tyrian Purple ...
Typical Murex_p4
Sub-genus Cerostoma, Conr. Operculum With Nucleus Lateral; Varices, Three, Wing-like; Aperture Toothed Inside Lip, Usually With One Large Tooth Near Base. Much Like Pteronotus. The Murex (m. Trialatus, Sby.) Is The Prize Of The Collector In Southern California. It Is Taken By Dredging Off San Pedro And San Diego. Three ...