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n. - Type genus of the family of piddocks.

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  • It was with a view to test this that Panceri dissected out the luminous organs of so many specimens of Pholas.
  • These species of Pholas have been found in the miocene of this, viz: P. Costata, P. Oblongata, and P. Memmingeri.
  • Among mollusks, the best known instance of phosphorescence is in the rock-boring Pholas, the luminosity of which after death is mentioned by Pliny.
  • 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.
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