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REFERRING to the fact mentioned in Mr. Darwin's letter, that mussels are sometimes brought up on the point of a hook, it is common, in shell collections, to find “Heart Cockles” (Isocardia cor), which look exactly as if they had been drilled each with a small hole, centred at some point in the opposed edges of the two valves.
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PIDGEON, D. Dispersal of Bivalves. Nature 25, 584 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/025584a0
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