Phylum of invertebrate animals.
Gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons.
1 I tried the galvanic electricity on these mollusca , but it produced no contraction.
2 Zoophytes, mollusca , shell-fish, were the highest developments of those ancient dates.
3 They come almost together-plantsbeing probably actually the first, and mollusca , fishes, and saurians.
4 These shells are identical with those of the mollusca of Lake Ngami and the Zouga.
5 Its water contains so much salt, that neither fish nor mollusca can live in it.
6 It lives constantly in low damp thickets picking up ground insects, centipedes, and small mollusca .
7 Think how little some, indeed many, mollusca have changed.
8 The pearl-bearing oyster is of a more delicate nature than most of the other acephalous mollusca .
9 The three next tables are covered with specimens of the shells of British mollusca , or soft-bodied animals.
10 They are covered with large quantities of mollusca , which are also abundant in the sea in their vicinity.
11 For following up this branch of inquiry the study of the distribution of the mollusca offers special advantages.
12 This applies to the sponges and other zoophyta, and to the worms, the mollusca , echinoderma, articulata, and vertebrata.
13 He gave me some rare shells, for I at that time collected marine mollusca , but with no great zeal.
14 A goodly percentage of the earlier and nearly half of the later tertiary mollusca , according to Des Hayes, Lye!
15 My general conclusions as to distribution of land mollusca are at Volume II., pages 522-9.
16 The fossils comprise several corals, varieties of mollusca , and a class of crustaceans peculiar to the very early rocks-thetrilobites.
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