 | 1847 - 510 páginas
...the entrance of Torbay." This author remarks, that " like the Teredo, it inhabits the interior of the wood which has been some time under salt water, penetrating...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
...piers and jetties. It attacks timber of all kinds that are under water in the neighbourhood of quays. " Like the Teredo, it inhabits the interior of wood,...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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Like the Teredo it inhabits the interior of 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. 