If we were to make a vertical section across the long axis of a Lamellibranch which had the axis of its ctenidium free from its origin onwards, we should find such relations as are shown in the diagram fig.
Diagrams showing the Relations of Pericardium and Nephridia in a Lamellibranch such as Anodonta.
Diagrams of Transverse Sections of a Lamellibranch to show the Adhesion, by Concrescence, of the Gill-Lamellae to the Mantle-flaps, to the foot and to one another.
At the anterior end of the test is the apical plate from the centre of which projects a long flagellum as in many other Lamellibranch larvae.
It is on this account that the valves of a dead Lamellibranch always gape; the elastic ligament is no longer counteracted by the effort of the adductors.
Our present knowledge of the interesting series of modifications through which the Lamellibranch gill-plates have developed to their most complicated form is due to R.
Lamellibranch retaining this plume-like form of gill.
Peck, "The Minute Structure of the Gills of Lamellibranch Mollusca," Quart.
Having the two ends unequal, as in the clam, quahaug, and most lamellibranch shells.
Defn: Having the two ends unequal, as in the clam, quahaug, and most lamellibranch shells.
Defn: A lamellibranch which has three muscular scars on each valve.
Defn: Characterized by a current which flows inward; as, the incurrent orifice of lamellibranch Mollusca.
A lamellibranch which has three muscular scars on each valve.
The last-named is marked partly by negative characters, the absence of certain Ammonite-genera and of coral reefs being noticeable, whilst the lamellibranch Aucella is very frequent.
In the beds below the Rhaetics, the principal invertebrate remains are the tests of the crustacean genus Estheria, though a few obscure lamellibranch shells have been recorded.
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