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.

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.

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.

Fine microstructural detail can be preserved in calcium phosphate internal moulds and replacements of the shells of Cambrian molluscs (Runnegar 1985).

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.

The use of molluscs as biomonitors of heavy metals in coastal zones is well established (Rainbow and Philips 1993).

Delhi, April 21 -- InfodriveIndia.com, India's premier research company in export import market research, announced today that India's Fish Crustaceans, Molluscs and other Aquatic Invertebrates exports in March- 2014 has grew to US$ 2044.57 M, a increase of 17.7% compared to February 2014.

Altogether 120,781 tonnes of fish, crustaceans and molluscs were caught by the end of September 2013, valued at OMR95,076 as against 141,005 tonnes valued at OMR99,553 for the same period in 2012, said a press release.