10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TUSK SHELL»
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Aquatic Life of the World: Tarpon-Wrasse
It also has a small head A fertilized tusk shell egg develops into a free-swimming
larva. Tiny hairlike cilia beat in the water, creating a slight gliding movement and
capturing food. The larva is kept in suspension and dispersed by the movement ...
2
Peterson First Guide to Shells of North America
These filaments. which are attached to lobes around the mouth. branch out under
the sand to anchor the tusk shell and capture food — single-celled protozoa —
and pass it to the tusk animal's mouth. where It is crushed with the radular teeth ...
Roger Tory Peterson, 1998
3
West Coast Shells: A Description in Familiar Terms of ...
Dentalium neohexagonum Sharp and Pilsbry, the Hexagonal Tusk-shell, is the
common species of southern California. Sometimes the shells are two inches in
length, and as the name indicates, a cross section would be six- sided. The shell
is ...
Josiah Keep, Joshua Longstreth Baily, 1947
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Beachcomber's Guide to Gulf Coast Marine Life: Texas, ...
The Texas tusk shell, Dentalium texasianum (Figure 7.38), also lives in inlet-
influenced portions of Gulf bays. It is easily recognized by its slender tapering,
curved shell, which is hexagonal in cross -section. Dentalium is not a snail, as
might be ...
Susan B. Rothschild, 2004
Class Scaphopoda (Tusk Shells) If ever a creature fit the description of being "just
an old stick in the mud," it's the tusk shell. These innocuous mollusks have
slightly curved cone shapes, which look like tiny elephant tusks. Their scientific
name ...
As he did with so many other organisms, the father of taxonomy Carl Linnaeus
was the first person to describe formally a tusk shell in his Systema Naturae of
1758. Linnaeus named entalis after the Latin slang for these shells, enthaliurn,
which ...
7
Sea Shells of Tropical West America: Marine Mollusks from ...
The popular name is tusk shell or tooth shell. The tapering, tubular, usually white
shell is open at both ends, and the soft parts are modified for active life just
beneath the surface of the sea floor, where the animal sifts the sand with slender
...
8
A Complete Course in ISC Biology
Dentalium (Tusk Shell) Dentalium is found in shallow sea. It burrows in the ocean
floor with its conical muscular foot. The body is worm-like and is enclosed in a
tubular mantle and shell. The tubular shell is open at both ends and is slightly ...
V. B. Rastogi, B. Kishore, 1997
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Ritual Ground: Bent's Old Fort, World Formation, and the ...
The Yurok were preoccupied with the acquisition of wealth, in the form of tusk,
shell strings, and also woodpecker scalps and obsidian. They believed that if a
man fulfilled all religious obligations meticulously, not only would he have luck in
...
Dentalium (Tusk Shell) Dentalium is found in shallow sea. It burrows in the ocean
floor with its conical muscular foot. The body is worm-like and is enclosed in a
tubular mantle and shell. The tubular shell is open at both ends and is slightly ...
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TUSK SHELL»
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Pilbara digs debunk timeline for ancient tool development
They uncovered ornaments including a Baler Shell fragment decorated with cross-hatched incisions and drilled holes, and tusk shell beads within a unit dated to ... «Phys.Org, Feb 15»
Prehistoric beads were made from British shells
A new technique to identify the type of shell used to make early, decorative beads ... dog whelk shells, while one was shown to be most similar to a tusk shell. «Phys.Org, Jul 14»
Necklace suggests Bronze Age Brits kept it local
A new study analyzing amino acids in a mollusk shell necklace shows that Bronze Age ... “Dog whelks and tusk shells were likely to be available locally so these ... «Futurity: Research News, Jun 14»
What Amino Acids in Shells tell us About Bronze Age People
From completing this research the team managed to discover that the craftspeople of the Bronze Age used dog whelk and tusk shells, it is probable that these ... «HeritageDaily, Jun 14»
Bronze Age bling! Archaeologists discover 4000-year-old necklace …
Bonze Age craftsmen used species such as dog whelk and tusk shells, both of which were likely to have been sourced and worked locally, to fashion the tiny ... «Daily Mail, Jun 14»
Oldest signs of Japanese using tools uncovered in Okinawa
NAHA, Okinawa Prefecture--Archaeologists have unearthed shell tools around ... Also unearthed were two tusk shell fragments believed to have been used as ... «Asahi Shimbun, Feb 14»
