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Перевод: whelk

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1. Common Hermit Crab, Pagurus bernhardus, in a whelk shell.
2. He went on to regard the presence of more than two rows to be an indication of adult growth, but, whilst this may sometimes occur it is just as likely that the unfortunate whelk was checked several times during its immature life.
3. Hughes and Elner (1979) gave the favoured whelk size for a large Curcinus as I 4 mm, with the maximum at 27 mm.
4. Usually the hermit crab utilises a discarded whelk or winkle shell to protect it from predators, but when none is available a plastic jar will do.
5. Confusion arose because Roding described a whelk under the name of Nucella lapillus which is not the same species as (or even closely related to) Buccinum lap ii/us L. Several people have accordingly considered the name Nucella Roding to be inapplicable to the common dog-whelk, either as a genus or sub-genus, and they place the animal in Thais Roding.
6. Not for them chirpy whelk stall amateurism or cheerful under-achieving.
7. These include the mobile and predatory crabs and lobsters, the echinoderms - starfish, brittle-stars, sea-urchins and sea-cucumbers; molluscs such as the predatory whelk, and octopuses.
8. In reply, the bookies wonder whether managing a whelk stall might be a better-sized challenge for the Jockey Club's skills.
9. He thought that it could not be synthesised by the whelk and must therefore (when present in the snail's shell) have come from the food.
10. I translate this as: A whelk with a smooth, ovate, pointed shell, marked with fine lines and with the columella fairly flat.
11. In Nucella the hole bored through the victim's shell is large enough to take the proboscis, and the whelk does not need to alter position on its prey once the hole is completed.
12. The proboscis can be extended to a length roughly equal to that of the whelk's own shell (Fig. 2).
13. The majority say it is the fault of a Weak Government which could not run a Whelk Stall.