Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1905 — The King of Mollusks. [ARTICLE]

The King of Mollusks.

The king of mollusk* lives in the Indian and Couth Pacific oceans He attains to a weight of 500 pounds, and the shell is of the bivalve kind, and the shape is about the same as that of our comnlon fresh water mussel. The gigantic Tridacna is the largest mollusk known to have lived on the earth since the Silurian Age. It is found on tho bottom of the shallow parts of the ocean, and the large individuals have no longer the power to move about. They lie on one side, 1 and all about them the corals build up until King Tridacna is sometimes found in a well-like hole in the coral formation. St. Nicholas.