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Updated: May 27, 2025
Like the Periwinkle and other shell-builders, these creatures owe their strong houses to a wonderful mantle; but in this case the mantle is in two pieces instead of one. You can imagine the Periwinkle's mantle as a tube enclosing the animal's body. The mantle of the Mussel or the Oyster is in two pieces; and each half forms its own shell.
Most of the shells which you find scattered over the shore are empty. The little animals which built them are gone; and their empty houses, of wonderful shapes and colours, are all that you find. Let us look at the builders of these pretty homes. The shell-builders have soft, juicy bodies, and they are put in one big division of the animal kingdom the mollusca, which only means soft-bodied.
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