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DANGEROUS MARINE ANIMALS 



Fie 10 Top: Giant Tridacna or Killer Clam, Tridacna gigas (Linnaeus). 



Boftoin: Semidiagrammatic-phantom drawing showing aPP'ogmate regwn to 



cut the clam in order to open the valves. Note the two large : tiansverse 



adductor muscle bundles which must be severed. (Baergn) 



