Word: radular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...volume is neither a collector's guide nor a malacological text but, as Photographer Feininger puts it, "a shell-appreciation book." Emerson, curator of mollusks at the Museum of Natural History, provides the basic conchology, including a cautionary account of a species of cone-shell snails whose "dartlike radular delivery apparatus" can cause a fatal wound. There is also profit in shell collecting. At a recent auction, something called a Golden Cowrie, often found in the Fijis, went for more than...
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