. Fresh-water aquaria: their construction, arrangement, and management, with full information as to the best water-plants and live stock to be kept, how and where to obtain them, and how to keep them in health. Aquariums. SNAILS AND LIMPETS. 183 useful food for the fish. A drawback in keeping these snails in the aquarium is their habit of escaping from it, and dying outside of it for want of water. The tanks, therefore, in. which they are confined should be covered. The body of the animal is a pale brown, tinged with green. The tentacles are flat, triangular, and placed almost at right angles
. Fresh-water aquaria: their construction, arrangement, and management, with full information as to the best water-plants and live stock to be kept, how and where to obtain them, and how to keep them in health. Aquariums. SNAILS AND LIMPETS. 183 useful food for the fish. A drawback in keeping these snails in the aquarium is their habit of escaping from it, and dying outside of it for want of water. The tanks, therefore, in. which they are confined should be covered. The body of the animal is a pale brown, tinged with green. The tentacles are flat, triangular, and placed almost at right angles with the sides of the animal. The eyes are black, and plainly seen. The shell is obliquely-ovate, and of a glossy dark. Fig. 122. LlMN/EA PEREGRA. yellowish horn-colour. There are five whorls, the body-whorl taking up more than three parts of the length of the shell. The spire, which is more or less produced in difEerent in- dividuals, occupies about a quarter the length of the shell. The aperture is large and oval, and the outer lip is a little . reflected. This snail is found in the slow-running and stagnant water of nearly every, if not every, part of Britain. It lays from sixty to eighty eggs, and incloses them in an elliptical capsule. It produces many such capsules in the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bateman, Gregory Climenson. London, L. U. Gill
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