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CUSPIDARIIDAE 477<br />

Cardio7nya pectinata Carpenter Pectinate Cuspidaria<br />

Puget Sound, Washington, to Panama.<br />

M inch in length; anterior end globular, bearing 8 to 12 strong radial<br />

ribs (there may be smaller ribs between the main ones). Posterior end drawn-<br />

out like a short handle and bearing 2 to 4 weak, longitudinal riblets. Color<br />

dull-gray with a glossy, grayish white interior. Commonly dredged offshore.<br />

Consider the case of the oyster<br />

Which passes its time in the moisture.<br />

Of sex alternate.<br />

It chases no mate.<br />

But lives in a self-contained cloister.<br />

Joel W. Hedgpeth<br />

(Maryland Tideivater News<br />

September 1950)

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