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"Mollusc" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... question concerning the Amphineura is how far do they represent the original condition of the ancestral mollusc? That is to say, we have to inquire which of their structural features is primitive and which modified. Their bilateral symmetry is obviously to be regarded as primitive, and the nervous system shows an original condition from which that of the asymmetrical twisted Gastropods can be derived. ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 - "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" • Various
... reason be an irreducible faculty or not: all this ought surely to take precedence of the number of joints in a Crustacean's antenna. These enormous questions would need an army of workers; and we have not one. The fashion is all for the Mollusc and the Zoophyte. (Zoophytes are plant-like sea-animals, including Star-fishes, Jelly-fishes, Sea-anemones, and Sponges.—Translator's Note.) The depths of the sea are explored with many drag-nets; the soil which we tread is consistently disregarded. ...
— The Wonders of Instinct • J. H. Fabre |
Words linked to "Mollusc" : shield, polyplacophore, gastropod, scaphopod, shell, cephalopod, chiton, lamellibranch, coat-of-mail shell, univalve, cephalopod mollusk, pelecypod, bivalve, invertebrate, carapace, cuticle, sea cradle |
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