How To Use Helix pomatia In A Sentence
- The drawing below, showing the branches of the columellar muscle of Helix pomatia, is from the last volume of Libbie Hyman's incomplete series The Invertebrates, published in 1967 shortly before she died. Tangled innards of a snail or how we know the intelligent designer was a klutz
- Quoting from Hyman [italics mine]:In [Helix pomatia] the [columellar] muscle, after leaving its origin on the columella, forks into right and left parts, of which the smaller right part sends a branch into each tentacle on that side and then loses itself in the tissues of the foot. Archive 2008-08-01
