A conchological manualSowerby, G. B. (George Brettingham)
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A conchological manual
Sowerby, G. B. (George Brettingham)
Mollusks -- Dictionaries; Shells -- Dictionaries
TUBERCULATED. Having a number of small lumps or pimples, as Turrilites,
fig. 483.
TUBICINELLA. Lam. (_Tubicen_, a trumpeter.) _Order_, Sessile
Cirripedes, Lam.--_Descr._ A cylindrical tube, composed of six
elongated valves jointed together side by side, striated
longitudinally, surrounded by concentric rings; aperture circular,
enclosed by an operculum of four valves, placed perpendicularly in an
epiphragm.--_Obs._ The Tubicinellæ are found with nearly the whole
shell buried in the thick skin of the whale. T. Balænarum.
TUBICOLARIA. Lam. (_Tuba_, a tube; _cola_, an inhabitant.) A family of
the order Conchifera Dimyaria, Lam. consisting of bivalves soldered as
it were within, or connected with, a testaceous tube. The genera
contained in this family may be thus distinguished.
1. ASPERGILLUM. Valves fixed, tube perforated and fringed. Fig. 44.
2. TEREDINA. Valves fixed, prominent, tube closed at one end.
Fossil. Fig. 46, 47.
3. CLAVAGELLA. One valve fixed, the other free. Fig. 45.
4. TEREDO. Both valves free, tube open at both ends. Fig. 48, 49.
5. FISTULANA. Valves free, tube closed at one end, straight, long.
Fig. 53, 54.
6. GASTROCHÆNA. Valves free, tube closed at one end, short,
bulbous. Fig. 52.
TUBIVALVES. Bl. Shells composed of two valves connected in a tube,
corresponding with the family Tubicolæ of Lamarck.
TULIPARIA. Sw. A sub-genus of "Coronaxis," Sw. Lardn. Cyclop. Malac. p.
311.
TURBINACEA. Bl. The sixth family of Polythalamacea, Bl. containing the
genera Cibicides and Rosallites, microscopic Foraminifera.
TURBINACEA. Lam. A family of the first section of the order
Trachelipoda, Lam. containing the following genera.
1. SOLARIUM. With umbilicus reaching to the apex; including
_Bifrontia_ and _Orbis_. Fig. 353 to 356.
2. ROTELLA. A callosity on the under side. Fig. 357.
3. PHASIANELLA. Oval; operculum shelly. Fig. 367.
4. PLANAXIS. Columellar lip flat; aperture notched. Fig. 365.
5. TURBO. Top-shaped; mouth generally round; operculum shelly. Fig.
368.
6. TROCHUS. Top-shaped; mouth generally angulated; operculum horny,
consisting of many whorls; including _Elenchus_. Fig. 358, 359,
361.
7. MARGARITA. Operculum horny, consisting of few whorls; pearly.
Fig. 362.
8. LITTORINA. Similar, not pearly; including _Assiminnea_. Fig.
363, 363*.
9. PHORUS. Attaching dead shells, stones, &c. Fig. 360.
10. MONODONTA or ODONTIS. A notch and prominent point at the lower
part of the aperture. Fig. 366.
11. LACUNA. With an umbilicus. Fig. 364.
12. TURRITELLA. Elongated, screw-shaped. Fig. 369 to 371.
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