THE LAMELLIBRANCHIATA. 



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face is usually marked by concentric lines of growth, which 

 indicate the boundaries of the successively added new layers 

 of shell-substance. 



rq tf 



Fig. 117.— Sectional diagram of a fresh- water Mussel (Anodonta).—A, A. mantle, the 

 right lobe of which is cut away; B, foot; C, branchial chamber of the mantle 

 cavity; D, anal chamber; /, anterior adductor muscle; IT, posterior adductor 

 muscle; III, retractor muscle of the foot; a, mouth; b, stomach; c, intestine, 

 the turns of which are supposed to be seen through the side-walls of the meso- 

 soma; d, rectum: e, anus; /, ventricle; q, auricle; h, gills, except i, right exter- 

 nal gill, largely cut away and turned back; k, labial palpi ; I, cerebral ; m, pedal; 

 n, parieto-splanchnic ganglia; o, aperture of the kidney or organ of Bojanus; p, 

 pericardium. 



The applied edges of the two valves are very often pro- 

 duced into elevations and depressions which interlock with 

 one another. The form and arrangement of these teeth and 

 sockets are of much use in systematic conchology. 



