mollusc

And as he walked to the fifteenth tee, after winning the fourteenth, he felt that this was Life, that till now he had been a mere mollusc.

Certainly, one findeth pearls in them: thereby they are the more like hard molluscs. And instead of a soul, I have often found in them salt slime.

Apart, in separate compartments, were spread out chaplets of pearls of the greatest beauty, which reflected the electric light in little sparks of fire; pink pearls, torn from the pinna-marina of the Red Sea; green pearls, yellow, blue, and black pearls, the curious productions of the divers molluscs of every ocean, and certain mussels of the water courses of the North; lastly, several specimens of inestimable value.

This brought the lecturer to the great ladder of animal life, beginning low down in molluscs and feeble sea creatures, then up rung by rung through reptiles and fishes, till at last we came to a kangaroo-rat, a creature which brought forth its young alive, the direct ancestor of all mammals, and presumably, therefore, of everyone in the audience.

The Silurian Lingula differs but little from the living species of this genus; whereas most of the other Silurian Molluscs and all the Crustaceans have changed greatly.

On the leaves, also, various patelliform shells, Trochi, uncovered molluscs, and some bivalves are attached.

Both processes potentially threaten the Mediterranean bivalve mollusc aquaculture sector, which is economically relevant to several regions and countries.

Tossed in the ebb and flow of the tide, buried in the sand and often washed up on the beach, shells are the exoskeletons of marine molluscs.

In favour of calcite are the observations that prisms are remarkably well-preserved in calcitic specimens (Runnegar 1990), and no modern mollusc has an aragonitic outer shell layer and calcitic inner shell layer--those with calcitic inner layers have calcitic outer layers as well (although oysters with such a configuration can have an aragonitic myostracum).

Muscat, Dec 13 (ONA) Oman has a coastline of 3165 km and a unique location, which overlooks the Sea of Oman, the Arabian Gulf, the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean, which in turn makes the Sultanate own maritime environment that is rich with unique species of marine organisms, especially molluscs which are of high commercial value.

In the individual mollusc group the extraction process was performed using all the body.

Robert has authored or co-authored approximately 100 scientific papers, chapters in books such as Fauna of Australia, Molluscs: The Southern Synthesis (1988) and Marine Invertebrates of Southern Australia (1989), and has described more than 90 species, mostly from Victoria.