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Common Marine Bivalves of California - California Digital Library  For a typical bivalve, the California sea-mussel, these would be: ... In the muddy areas of the southern bays, scallops are often encountered lying in the ..... These snails attach themselves to the shell of their victim, drill a small hole .... Jackknife clams are gathered with an arrow-shaped dart on the end of a long, stiff wire.
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jeopardy/3455_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  SNAILS | California sea snail whose ear-shaped shell with a row of holes often ends up as an ashtray | abalone. right: Wrong: Triple Stumper. Value: $600.
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World Myths & Legends in Art - Minneapolis Institute of Arts  Since people were often isolated from each other, most myths ... What is truth to one is fancy to another; however, it is not up to any of us to decide that ...... diamond-shaped eye emphasize the proud upward thrust of his head. .... Two braids extending from Medusa's ears loop down under her head to ...... with snail shell.
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Jeopary Questions page 388 - AMERICAN HISTORY - TriviaBistro ...  BIOLOGY: E. coli, one of these found in humans, is often used in genetic studies ... THE FUNNIES: On January 7, 1929 2 strips debuted, "Tarzan" and this strip about a man who wakes up 500 years in the future .... SNAILS: California sea snail whose ear-shaped shell with a row of holes often ends up as an ashtray.
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Animals - Ray Sahelian, M.D.  Round up Cattleman's term for gathering the herd, Texas trail named in honor ...... California sea snail whose ear-shaped shell with a row of holes often ends up...
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Botanical Record-Breakers (Part 2 of 2) - Wayne's Word - Palomar ...  Flying through the air is another effective adaptation for fruit and seed ..... by several bristly hairs that resemble the antennae of a tiny crustacean or insect. ... Sometimes the seeds are boiled in order to facilitate the piercing of their hard seed coats, ..... becomes lodged between the shell and outer flesh (mantle) of a bivalve.
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A Field Study of a Vanishing Species, Achatinella mustelina ...  ABSTRACT: A population of Achatinella mustelina occupying four trees within a 5 x 5-m quadrat on a ridge in the Waianae Mountains of Oahu,. Hawaii ... area and no living specimens of A. mustelina or any other arboreal snail species .... marking studies; regression slopes for these growth curves are presented in Table 1.
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shell  OTHER NAMES: Shell material used in jewelry and/or to fashion decorative objects is ... as well as being the "rough" from which shell cameos have been fashioned. ... Jewelry: Parts of several shells have been ground to spheres, carved, ..... Pink Queen conch (Strombus gigas Linnaeus, 1758) (width - 22 cm) with tip cut off...
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Science Explorations: Investigate the Giant Squid: Mollusks ...  These animals are so called because the foot, which is separated into a ... spindle-shaped creature sometimes called the "arrow squid" for its ability to dart through the water. ... The eyes have no lids, but otherwise look startlingly human. .... The soft-shell clam uses its tongue-shaped foot to burrow into mud or sand to a...
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Gastropoda - Wikipedia  The marine shelled species of gastropod include edible species such as abalone, conches, periwinkles, whelks, and numerous other sea snails that produce...
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gastropod | class of mollusks | Britannica.com  Mar 20, 2015 ... The class is made up of the snails, which have a shell... ... A few gastropod types (such as conch, abalone, limpets, and whelks) are ... They can be coiled flatly in one plane, as in Planorbis; become ... and the shells of many of these species are so heavily covered with algae ... Edible snail (Helix pomatia).
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Edible marine gastropod mollusc whose shells are used for ornament  Edible marine gastropod mollusc whose shells are used for ornament - crossword puzzle clues and possible answers. Dan Word - let me solve it for you!
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Mother-of-pearl  Jul 20, 2012 ... Common sources of mother-of-pearl include the above shells, which are NOT ... commonly given to the pearly inner layer of some molluscs. ... sea ear (or ear shell) - name sometimes applied to abalone shells .... In addition, Mother-of-pearl, as "Small, hand-cut shapes with straight edges, called 'tesserae',...
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Snails, Welks, Conchs - Gulf Specimen Marine Lab  M-840 MOON SNAIL, Polinices duplicatus, has a smooth rounded shell and a greatly ... Its handsome, pointed spiral shell is used extensively in shell craft. ... M870 LEFT HANDED WHELK, Busycon contrarium, is the traditional large whelk ... which can be produced almost 100 percent of the time by cracking the shell and...
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Snails, Welks, Conchs - Gulf Specimen Marine Lab  Class Gastropoda (Snails, Whelks, etc.) ... M-840 MOON SNAIL, Polinices duplicatus, has a smooth rounded shell and a greatly expanded foot. It plows a furrow...
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J! Archive - Show #4883, aired 2005-11-30  Nov 30, 2005 ... A small snail-like mollusk that has no shell, or a metal disk often used illegally in vending machines .... Haydn's "Hunt" (No. 73) is this type of orchestral piece ... Mozart's "Hunt", heard here, is this type of chamber piece...
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Frequently Asked Questions  The Snail Wrangler  Snails have a shell while most slugs have little or no shell, and slugs with tiny shells cannot ... Yes, you could say that land snails are cousins to the snails of the oceans. When you find an empty seashell (the spiral kind, not clam shells) on the beach, ... If you listen closely, you can even hear the snail's radula scraping!
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Ed Killer: Conch life at the sand bar - TCPalm.com  May 30, 2015 ... Queen conchs, found only in the Florida Keys and near St. Lucie Inlet, are ... Queen conchs are sea snails that create large, hard shells. ... the Stuart sand bar have greenish algae (not the toxic kind) living on their backs. ... and the meat is tasty, although tough, often found in chowders, salads and fritters.
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Seashell - Wikipedia  A seashell or sea shell, also known simply as a shell, is a hard, protective outer layer created ... When the word "seashells" refers only to the shells of marine mollusks, then ... Certain species of gastropod seashells (the shells of sea snails) can ... Both the science of studying mollusk shells and the hobby of collecting and...
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barnacles : Encyclopedia : Food Network - Food Terms Encyclopedia  Marine crustaceans (not mollusks, as many think) of the subclass Cirripedia that ... such as rocks, ship bottoms, wharves, pilings and even whales and large fish. ... Acorn barnacles are what one most often sees clinging to pilings and ships. ... Because these barnacles attach themselves to ships, they have traveled to all...
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A Guide to Buying, Shucking, and Eating Clams - Grub Street  Jun 16, 2013 ... It's hard to imagine that the humble clam was ever more fashionable than it is ... On the East Coast, littlenecks, topnecks, cherrystones, and chowders are names for different sizes of the same species of hard-shell clam. ... When the blade is halfway between the shells, twist the knife upward to open the clam,...