Figure 15. Posterior adductor muscle in Pulvinites exempla (AMS C.129659, 62.2 mm). Histological sagittal section (5 µm, Alcian Blue/Periodic Acid/Schiff's stain). The section was made close to the attachment surface of the adductor muscle showing slightly denser packed muscle fibres in the anterior section (right side) than in the posterior section (left side), separated by the dashed line (scale bar = 150 µm). Inset: visceral transverse connective (vc) suspended in loose connective tissue at the anteroventral surface of the posterior adductor muscle (pam) (scale bar = 250 µm).

Published as part of Tëmkin, Ilya, 2006, Anatomy, shell morphology, and microstructure of the living fossil Pulvinites exempla (Hedley, 1914) (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pulvinitidae), pp. 523-552 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148 (3) on page 541, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00263.x, http://zenodo.org/record/5428103