What marvel, that we have sold our birth-right to an acephalous mollusk, when the simple use of the tongue has passed into such headless mongreldom?
The singular Acephalous Mollusc known to naturalists as the Teredo navalis, and popularly as the Ship Worm (Fig.
In its structure the shell differs notably from otherAcephalous Molluscs, which led Linnæus to place it with the multivalve shells.
Such is a summary description of all the Acephalous Molluscs.
Anarchism, with its knife and bomb, is a miscarriage of Socialism, anacephalous birth from that fruitful mother.
There is nothing more audacious in the poet's conception of the worm looking up towards humanity, than the naturalist's theory that the progenitor of the human race was an acephalous mollusk.
Does psychometry compare with astronomy and geology in its scientific rank, or does it compare with the acephalous biology, which occupies all medical colleges?
But in its present acephalous condition it is but a fragment of science--a headless corpse, unfit to rank among complete sciences.
Even in the acephalous bivalve Mollusca and Snails the respiratory openings are almost always situated in the proximity of the anus; their respiration is still a sexual respiration.
The Cephalozoon no longer distinguishes nature and self only like theacephalous and amnemonic animals; but it distinguishes even its body from its head, because the Fish has begun to be a double animal.
The Acephalous or anencephalic animals have therefore no memory, because they live only in opposition to the world, but never in antagonism to themselves.
In the acephalous molluscs, the great development of the mantle of these molluscs has rendered their eyes and even their head entirely useless.
Its cercariae are usually found in an acephalous mollusc, known by the name of Cyclas cornea.
Thus we see Hirudinidae on the Mya, an acephalous mollusc, incapable of quitting their place, firmly fixed on the walls of the stomach of their host, and living quietly at his expense.
There are a great number ofacephalous molluscs, which we might mention as messmates, but we will only refer to the Crenellae which are regularly found in the substance of sponges.
We see full-grown acephalous molluscs, as mussels and pinnae, still keep these cables, under the name of byssus, during their whole life.
A curious question arose in the instance of the girl, as to whether the extreme unction should be administered to the acephalousfetus as well as to the child.
Pare, Benivenius, and Columbus describe adults with acephalous monsters attached to them.
In the acephalous twin described by Beclard, no liver, spleen, stomach, or oesophagus could be discovered, and the intestinal tube commenced at the superior extremity of the body.
Almost all bivalve shells, or those of acephalous mollusca, are marine, about sixteen only out of 140 genera being fresh-water.
Others preferred to imagine in this singular personage the acephalous man, the man without a head, named by the grave Baumgarthen as existing on the new continent.
The Mytilus or Mussel, which properly belonged to this age, are acephalous (or headless) Molluscs with elongated triangular shells, of which there are many species found in our existing seas.
Lima, Myophoria, Posidonia, and Avicula, are acephalous Molluscs of the same period.
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