Defn: The connected series of large egg capsules, or oöthecæ, of any one of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur.
Defn: Any one numerous species of large marine gastropodsbelonging to Buccinum and allied genera; especially, Buccinum undatum, common on the coasts both of Europe and North America, and much used as food in Europe.
Defn: Any one of very numerous species of small spiralgastropods of the genus Rissoa, or family Rissoidæ, found both in fresh and salt water.
Defn: Any one of several species of large marine gastropods belonging to the genus Yetus, or Cymba; a boat shell.
Defn: A genus including several species of large marine gastropods having massive pyriform shells, with conspicuous folds on the columella.
Defn: Any one of numerous marine gastropods of the genus Turbo or family Turbinidæ, usually having a turbinate shell, pearly on the inside, and a calcareous operculum.
Defn: Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Triton and allied genera, having a stout spiral shell, often handsomely colored and ornamented with prominent varices.
Defn: A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula.
A genus including several species of large marine gastropods having massive pyriform shells, with conspicuous folds on the columella.
A tribe of gastropods having the mantle border, on one or both sides, prolonged in the form of a spout through which water enters the gill cavity.
A division ofgastropods in which the odontophore is without teeth.
A genus of marine gastropods in which the shell has the outer lip dilated into a broad wing.
A genus of large marine gastropods having a thick heavy shell with conspicuous folds on the columella.
Any one of several species of marine gastropods belonging to Velutina and allied genera.
A division of marine gastropods in which the gills are developed on both sides of the body and the renal organs are also paired.
A genus of small spiral fresh-water gastropods having an operculum.
A genus of marine gastropodshaving a long, tapering spire.
The forms of more ordinary Gastropodsfrom the Silurian represented in Fig.
As in the case of the ordinary bivalves, however, the modern Gastropods much exceed in numbers and magnitude those of the PalA|ozoic.
The introverted rostrum of the Pectinibranch Gastropods presents in contrast to these a limited range of movement.
He fully recognized, however, the similarity of Pteropods to Gastropods in their general asymmetry and in the torsion of the visceral mass in Limacinidae.
It is now understood that they are Euthyneurous Gastropods adapted to natatory locomotion and pelagic life.
In dextral Gastropods the only structure found on the topographically right side of the rectum is the genital duct.
Spengel showed that the parabranchia of Gastropods is the typical olfactory organ or osphradium in a highly developed condition.
In the most primitive existing Gastropods the gonad opens into the right kidney (Patellidae, Trochidae, Fissurellidae).
Myriopods, arachnids, insects and pulmoniferous gastropods have however been found with tolerable frequency.
The loess molluscs are chiefly pulmoniferous gastropods which lived upon the land, though swamp forms are occasionally associated with them.
The remarkable ammonite fauna of Mesozoic times has disappeared, and gastropods and lamellibranchs predominate, many of the forms belonging to existing genera, though very rarely to existing species.
It does not contain blood or communicate directly with the blood-system; this isolation of the pericardium we have noted already in Gastropods and Cephalopods.
Any one of several species of marine gastropods belonging to Velutina and allied genera.
A large number of univalves belonging to the gastropods are conical, cup-shaped, or shieldlike, as the limpets.
The "oyster-drills" are Gastropods with odd spiny shells which do much harm in oyster-beds by settling down on the oysters, boring holes through the shells and eating the soft parts within.
Of the hosts of marine Gastropods we can notice only a few kinds.
Among the shell-forming marine Gastropods there is great variety in the size and shape and coloring of the shells.
A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula.
On the lower rocks near the water, and hidden in among the wet seaweeds, lie many small spiral gastropods which we call periwinkles.
A very large number of gastropods live in the sea.
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