The animal inside the shell is eaten, either raw, as in salads, or cooked, as in fritters, chowders, gumbos, and burgers. Conch shells are sometimes used as crude bugles by removal of the small tip of the shell to form a mouthpiece, as decoration, as decorative planters, ground up as...
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57.2 Shell defenses, nacre formation, and the mantle The mollusk shell is key to protect the animal from the external environment with its microorganisms and is composed of calcium carbonate, being formed by its deposition into a protein matrix called conchiolin (Gosling, 2003). The shell has ...
and Cyclestheriidae are either unisexual or express males in the later generations of their life cycles. Laboratory studies indicate that species with sex ratios near unity are gonochoric (obligately sexual), whereas females in species with female-biased sex ratios are capable of both outcrossing...
Please do not touch or stand on anything as coral is a living animal and be sure not to brush anything with your flippers, equipment or gear. Remember: Don’t step on coral. … Don’t touch or chase marine life. … Don’t stir the sediment. … Don’t take marine life – dead or...
Ostracodes are perhaps best known in field collections for the bivalved shell (carapace), thinly or heavily calcified by low-magnesium calcite, which is molted and replaced on average eight times as the animal grows to adulthood. Their valves are distinct from those of the conchostracan order ...
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The pearls are found embedded in the flesh of the mollusk; quite often they are in a sac or cyst with an external opening, from which they are sometimes dislodged by the muscular movement of the animal. The yield is small,a thousand shells in many cases yielding only a very small number...
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When 31% of the entire phragmocone was filled with liquid, the living animal would have reached neutral buoyancy in contrast to 27% of cameral liquid filling when the weight of the aptychi is included. Provided that smaller ammonoids had more cameral liquid than bigger ammonoids, such as ...