File:FMIB 48194 Young Quahog.jpeg

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English: State of Massachusetts Fish and Game Commission
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English: Young Quahog .

1 millimeter (1/25 inch) in length, attached to sand grains by the byssus (B). The ssipphon (S) consists of two parts, an incurrent encircle dby twelve tentacles, through which the water enters the mantle chamber of the animal, and an excurrent with four tentacles and filmy telescopic tube through which the water passes out of the mantle cavity. The byssus areises from a gland on the under side of the foot (ft).

  • Subject: Northern quahog--Anatomy
  • Tag: Shellfish
Date 1912
date QS:P571,+1912-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
institution QS:P195,Q219563
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English: Massachusetts. Commissioners on Fisheries and Game. (1912) Report Upon the Quahaug and Oyster Fisheries of Massachusetts, Boston, MA: Wright & Potter Printing Co.
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Public domain This is a photograph from the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank at the University of Washington. Materials in the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank are in the public domain. No copyright permissions are needed. Acknowledgement of the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank as a source for borrowed images is requested.

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