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(See extract.) "The spawn of sea-snails consists of a large number of eggs, adhering together in ma es, or spread out in the shape of a strap or ribbon, in which the eggs are arranged in rows; this nid a mental - ribbon is sometimes coiled up spirally like a watch-spring, and attached by one of its edges."-S. P. Woodward: Manual of the Mollusca (ed. 1880), p. 40. Nidamental-ribbon of Doris Johnston i. nidus