. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . have practically lost their gills are very large and curved, while all the organs seem tobe abnormally placed on account of the huge byssus and byssalmuscle. For the byssus to pass, as it does, through a speciallyprepared hole in one of the valves is an extraordinary departurefrom the conventional types of byssiferous species. The heart isnot traversed by the intestine. Altogether, then, Anomia is a verycurious genus. A. simplex. The commoner large form of New England
. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . have practically lost their gills are very large and curved, while all the organs seem tobe abnormally placed on account of the huge byssus and byssalmuscle. For the byssus to pass, as it does, through a speciallyprepared hole in one of the valves is an extraordinary departurefrom the conventional types of byssiferous species. The heart isnot traversed by the intestine. Altogether, then, Anomia is a verycurious genus. A. simplex. The commoner large form of New England. It variesfrom one to three inches in diameter, is exceedingly irregular in shape, and its surface is var-iously undulated andplaited in accordance with //- [•[{ |pg ;•-.,;, the surface of the ob- ject to which it is at-tached. Thousands ofthese valves, disjointedand separated, are castupon the beaches all alongour Atlantic coast. Theyare light green to sal-mon- or copper-color,generally fragile andscaly, and have a pecu-liarly dulled (as though Anomia simplex, side view. Anomia simplex, from below. greased). PELECYPohs 412ft
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