 | 1847 - 510 páginas
...This author remarks, that " like the Teredo, it inhabits the interior of the wood which has been some time under salt water, penetrating to the depth of...having a very small and single external orifice," p. 254. He observes, that " its habitation in wood naturally separates it from the Pholas." But in... | |
 | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke - 1889 - 408 páginas
...the neighbourhood of quays. " Like the Teredo, it inhabits the interior of wood, which has been some time under salt water, penetrating to the depth of...having a very small and single external orifice." 1 It differs 1 Mr. W. Thompson " On Xylophaga Dorsalis? &c., in "Annals of Nat. Hist.," vol. xx. (1847),... | |
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Teredo, it inhabits the interior of the wood which has been some time under salt water, penetrating to the depth of from half an inch to an inch, forming for itself an oval receptacle or cavity, and having a very small and single external orifice, 