PTEROPODA. 



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- iytyliola 

 vitrea. — Afier Verrill. 



A common form, occurring at the surface in harbors 

 north of Cape Cod, as well as many miles off shore, is Spiri- 

 alis Gouldii Stimpson, the shell of which 

 resembles a conical Helix, f he largest 

 form on the eastern coast of North 

 America, extending from New York to the 

 polar seas, is the beautiful Clione papillon- 

 acea of Pallas, which has a head and lin- 

 gual ribbon. It is rare on the coast of 

 New England, but abundant from Labra- 

 dor northward. We have observed it 

 rising and falling in the water between 

 the floe-ice on the coast of Labrador. It 

 is an inch long, the body fleshy, with no 

 shell, the wings being rather small. 



The larvae of the Pteropods pass through 

 a trochosphere stage, being, as in C'avolina, 

 spherical, with a ciliated crown. It after- 

 wards assumes a veliger form. Fig. 184 represents a worm- 

 like, segmented, Pteropod larva, the adult of which is 

 unknown. In other genera the larvas are annulated, resem- 

 bling the larvae of Annelides. 



The Pteropods are, in some degree, a generalized type. 

 They have a wide geographical distribution and 

 a high antiquity ; forms like CavoUna, viz. : 

 Theca, Conularia, Tentaculites, CornuUtes, 

 etc., dating back to the palaeozoic formation ; 

 Theca-like forms {Pugmnculus and Hyolithes) 

 occurring in the primordial rocks. 



Order 3. Gastropoda. — This great assemblage 

 of moUusks is represented by the sea-slugs, 

 limpets, whelks (Figs. 185-188), snails, and 

 ptero- slugs. The head is quite distinct, bearing one, 

 and sometimes, as in the land-snails, two pairs 

 of tentacles, with eyes either at the leases, or at the ends of 

 the tentacles, or, as in Trivia californica (Fig. 189), they 

 are situated on projections near the base of the tentacles. 

 All the Gastropods move or glide over the surface by the 

 broad creeping-disk, a modiflcation of the foot of the clam. 



Fig. 184, 

 pod larva 



