Report On The Invertebrata Of Massachusetts |
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Acad acute ADAMS angle animal aperture apex beaks body body whorl Bost branchiæ breadth Brit broad Cape Cod Casco Bay Check Lists CHEMN CHEMNITZ chestnut colored columella compressed Conch convex Couthouy curved DESHAYES distinct dorsal Eastport edge elevated elongated Encyc England epidermis flattened folds foot Genus GOULD Grand Manan groove half height Helix hinge Hist horn color inch Journ LAMARCK length lines of growth mantle margin Mighels minute N. Y. Moll narrow nearly numerous oblique obtuse operculum orifice outer lip oval ovate papillæ peristome PFEIFFER Planorbis posterior posteriorly Proc prominent Pupa radiating revolving lines ribs ridges rounded Sable Island Shell small side slender slightly smooth SOWERBY species specimens spire STIMPSON striæ sub-oval surface suture teeth tentacles tenths Terr thin tooth transverse truncated umbilicated umbilicus valve W. G. BINNEY whorls five whorls four Willis wrinkled yellowish Zool
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Էջ 57 - INGLORIOUS FRIEND ! most confident I am Thy "life is one of very little ease ; Albeit men mock thee with their similes And prate of being ' happy as a clam ! ' What though thy shell protects thy fragile head From the sharp bailiffs of the briny sea ? Thy valves are, sure, no safety-valves to thee, While rakes are free to desecrate thy bed, And bear thee off, — as foemen take their spoil,— Far from thy friends and family to roam...
Էջ 409 - ... on the posterior part, and its edges free throughout the whole circumference. Upper surface of the body marked with longitudinal lines, or shallow furrows, darker than the general surface, sometimes black, anastomosing with each other, and forming a sort of net-work ; between the reticulated lines are narrow, irregular oblong plates, or smooth, flattened tubercles, giving the surface the appearance of a mosaic work, with lines of dark cement ; reticulations less distinct on the sides, and disappearing...
Էջ 411 - ... not extending beyond, and accurately fitting to the peristome of the shell, into which the whole animal may retire ; head obtuse ; eyes at the end of long, cylindrical, retractile peduncles ; tentacles short, retractile ; generative orifice on the side of the head, behind the right eye-peduncle ; respiratory orifice in the collar, at the angle of the aperture of the shell, anal orifice immediately adjoining.
Էջ 420 - Very beautiful specimens, about one fourth of an inch in diameter, with a dark, shining epidermis and open umbilicus, occur in Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, and Michigan. They are more convex, and, as the same number of volutions is contained in half the space, they appear to have more whorls than the common variety. Some persons have considered these to form a distinct species (17".
Էջ 411 - ... tentacles white ; base of foot sallow white. Body when extended cylindrical, elongated, terminating acutely with a short but prominent keel ; upper part covered with long and narrow prominent tubercles. Mantle ample, oval, rounded at both ends, with numerous very fine concentrical striae.
Էջ 410 - The tuberosities of the surface are more prominent in proportion to their size, are not flattened or plate-like, and are not separated by darker colored anastomosing lines, the intervening furrows being of the same color as the general surface.
Էջ 57 - THE times wherein old Pompion was a saint, When men fared hardly yet without complaint, On vilest cates ; the dainty indian maize Was eat with clamp-shells out of wooden trayes, •" Under thatch'd hutts without the cry of rent, v And the best sawce to every dish, content.
Էջ 440 - Shell light chestnut, cylindrical ovate; whirls rather more than four, ventricose, the last occupying nearly onehalf the length of the axis ; aperture lateral, composed of two unequal curves meeting in the centre of the peristome, with five prominent, white teeth, namely, one upon the transverse margin, two upon the umbilical margin, and two upon the labial Fig. 435. 250 margin ; peristome thickened, not reflected ; umbilicus a little open.
Էջ 451 - ... above described line, runs along the sides of the body to its extremity. Body cylindrical, narrow, when extended very much elongated ; expanding a little towards its extremity, and ending in a flat and rounded termination ; its upper surface is covered with narrow, oblong, prominent glands, appearing sometimes as if carinated, and arranged in parallel rows, the flanks with elongated tuberculated plates and finer granulations.
Էջ 58 - What though thy shell protects thy fragile head From the sharp bailiffs of the briny sea ? Thy valves are, sure, no safety-valves to thee, While rakes are free to desecrate thy bed, And bear thee off,-— as foemen take their spoil,— Far from thy friends and family to roam ; Forced, like a Hessian, from thy native home, To meet destruction in a foreign broil ! Though thou art tender, yet thy humble bard Declares, O clam ! thy case is shocking hard ! A REASONABLE PETITION.