Pholas

Pholas-like mind's tongue that works and tastes into the very rock-heart; no matter what be the subject submitted to it, substance or spirit, all is alike divided asunder, joint and marrow; whatever utmost truth, life, principle it has laid bare, and that which has no truth, life, nor principle, is dissipated into its original smoke at a touch.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

There are certain rock-boring animals, such as the Pholas, which help to decay the rocks.

Vanishing England 1892

In Pholas the light is still more persistent, and it is found that when the dead body of this mollusk is placed in honey, it will retain for more than a year the power of emitting light when plunged in warm water.

Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880

But it is not merely after death that Pholas becomes luminous -- a phenomenon perfectly familiar even in the case of many fish, especially the herring and mackerel.

Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880

It was with a view to test this that Panceri dissected out the luminous organs of so many specimens of Pholas.

Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880

Among mollusks, the best known instance of phosphorescence is in the rock-boring Pholas, the luminosity of which after death is mentioned by Pliny.

Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880

These species of Pholas have been found in the miocene of this, viz: P. Costata, P. Oblongata, and P. Memmingeri.

Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds 1858

He observes, that although a workman would be amazed on hearing a proposition to pierce calcareous stone with the shell of a _Pholas_, yet he himself has done it, and holds the success to be a proof that the animal can do the same.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 422 Volume 17, New Series, January 31, 1852 Various 1836

In the foot there is a gelatinous spring or style, which, even when taken out, has great elasticity, and which seems the mainspring of the motions of the _Pholas dactylus_. '

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430 Volume 17, New Series, March 27, 1852 Various 1836

_Pholas_ from confervæ, which, when they get at it, grow not merely outside, but even within the lips of the valves, preventing the action of the syphons.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430 Volume 17, New Series, March 27, 1852 Various 1836