. 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. 163 are exceedingly interesting in the aquarium. The forms, structures, and habits of the Univalves especially are very various. For example: 1. The shells of some snails are flat-coiled, lite the Planorb^ corneus (Fig. Ill), while those of others are oval-ohlong, like. Fig. 112. STAGNALIS. the Lirrmcea stagnalis (Fig. 112), or ear-shaped at the op


. 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. 163 are exceedingly interesting in the aquarium. The forms, structures, and habits of the Univalves especially are very various. For example: 1. The shells of some snails are flat-coiled, lite the Planorb^ corneus (Fig. Ill), while those of others are oval-ohlong, like. Fig. 112. STAGNALIS. the Lirrmcea stagnalis (Fig. 112), or ear-shaped at the opening, like Limncea auricularia (Fig. 113). 2. Some snails' shells are as much as IJin. in length, while those of others are as small as a big pin's 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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