. The animal life of our seashore. With special reference to the New Jersey coast and the southern shore of Long Island. Marine animals. 52 THE SHELL-FISH OF THE COAST. niollusk, and allowing the shells to accumulate on these boughs for a period of several years. They are then raised, the quantity sold by weight, and distributed over the interior of the country. The muscle when first hatched is an active free-swimming little creature, which attaches itself when no larger than the head of a pin. But much later in life it still possesses the power of disen- gaging the attaching byssus, and secur
. The animal life of our seashore. With special reference to the New Jersey coast and the southern shore of Long Island. Marine animals. 52 THE SHELL-FISH OF THE COAST. niollusk, and allowing the shells to accumulate on these boughs for a period of several years. They are then raised, the quantity sold by weight, and distributed over the interior of the country. The muscle when first hatched is an active free-swimming little creature, which attaches itself when no larger than the head of a pin. But much later in life it still possesses the power of disen- gaging the attaching byssus, and securing a new anchorage when such is needed. By alternately passing forward its delicate threads, the animal pulls itself along to a selected locality, much in the manner that is adopted by many spiders in securing their prey. Keadily distinguished from the edible muscle by its rounded anterior outline and the plications or. HOESE-MUSCLE. radiating lines extending down the sides of the shell, is the so-called horse-muscle {Modiola plica- tula), like the former an inhabitant of the shallows about tide-water. Here, in the somewhat peaty soil, they are frequently found burrowing in vast numbers, so closely packed together as to form a true stratum. The shells are often much eroded. 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 Heilprin, Angelo, 1853-1907. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company
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