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A Manual of Conchology: According to the System Laid Down by Lamarck, with the Late Improvements by De Blainville. Exemplified and Arranged for the Use of Students.Wyatt, Thomas

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A Manual of Conchology: According to the System Laid Down by Lamarck, with the Late Improvements by De Blainville. Exemplified and Arranged for the Use of Students.

Name: A Manual of Conchology: According to the System Laid Down by Lamarck, with the Late Improvements by De Blainville. Exemplified and Arranged for the Use of Students.
Author: Wyatt, Thomas

Wyatt, Thomas

Mollusks

2. Mitra. The Mitre Shell. Eighty species.

A numerous and elegant genus of shells, separated by Lamarck from the
Voluta on account of possessing several strong distinctive characters.
The spire is always pointed, and the columellar plaits, diminishing in
size, are always transverse and parallel to each other.

The exterior is sometimes most beautifully marked with transverse
grooves, striæ, punctures, or granulations; the colour of almost every
hue.

Shell turreted, sub-fusiform, and oval; the spire always pointed at the
summit; the aperture small, triangular, wider and strongly notched
anteriorly; the external edge sharp, almost straight, always longer than
the columella, which is formed by a very thin callosity, and marked with
oblique parallel plaits, of which those anterior are the shortest.

                          Mitra episcopalis.
                          M. papalis.
                          M. pontificalis.
                          M. puncticulata.
                          M. millepora.
                          M. cardinalis.
                          M. archiepiscopalis.
                          M. versicolor.
                          M. sanguinolenta.
                          M. pediculus.
                          M. lactea.
                          M. cornicularis.
                          M. lutescens.
                          M. striatula.
                          M. subulata.
                          M. cornea.
                          M. tringa.
                          M. melaniana.
                          M. ferruginea.
                          M. terebralis.
                          M. adusta.
                          M. granulosa.
                          M. crocata.
                          M. casta.
                          M. nexilis.
                          M. olivaria.
                          M. scabriuscula.
                          M. granatina.
                          M. crenifera.
                          M. serpentina.
                          M. tæniata.
                          M. plicaria.
                          M. corrugata.
                          M. costellaris.
                          M. lyrata.
                          M. melongena.
                          M. cinctella.
                          M. vulpecula.
                          M. Caffra.
                          M. sanguisuga.
                          M. stigmataria.
                          M. filosa.
                          M. fissurata.
                          M. arenosa.
                          M. clavulus.
                          M. literata.
                          M. Peronii.
                          M. obliquata.
                          M. oniscina.
                          M. scutulata.
                          M. dactylus.
                          M. fenestrata.
                          M. crenulata.
                          M. texturata.

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A Manual of Conchology: According to the System Laid Down by Lamarck, with the Late Improvements by De Blainville. Exemplified and Arranged for the Use of Students.Wyatt, Thomas

Science

A Manual of Conchology: According to the System Laid Down by Lamarck, with the Late Improvements by De Blainville. Exemplified and Arranged for the Use of Students.

Wyatt, Thomas

Mollusks

2. Mitra. The Mitre Shell. Eighty species.

A numerous and elegant genus of shells, separated by Lamarck from the
Voluta on account of possessing several strong distinctive characters.
The spire is always pointed, and the columellar plaits, diminishing in
size, are always transverse and parallel to each other.

The exterior is sometimes most beautifully marked with transverse
grooves, striæ, punctures, or granulations; the colour of almost every
hue.

Shell turreted, sub-fusiform, and oval; the spire always pointed at the
summit; the aperture small, triangular, wider and strongly notched
anteriorly; the external edge sharp, almost straight, always longer than
the columella, which is formed by a very thin callosity, and marked with
oblique parallel plaits, of which those anterior are the shortest.

                          Mitra episcopalis.
                          M. papalis.
                          M. pontificalis.
                          M. puncticulata.
                          M. millepora.
                          M. cardinalis.
                          M. archiepiscopalis.
                          M. versicolor.
                          M. sanguinolenta.
                          M. pediculus.
                          M. lactea.
                          M. cornicularis.
                          M. lutescens.
                          M. striatula.
                          M. subulata.
                          M. cornea.
                          M. tringa.
                          M. melaniana.
                          M. ferruginea.
                          M. terebralis.
                          M. adusta.
                          M. granulosa.
                          M. crocata.
                          M. casta.
                          M. nexilis.
                          M. olivaria.
                          M. scabriuscula.
                          M. granatina.
                          M. crenifera.
                          M. serpentina.
                          M. tæniata.
                          M. plicaria.
                          M. corrugata.
                          M. costellaris.
                          M. lyrata.
                          M. melongena.
                          M. cinctella.
                          M. vulpecula.
                          M. Caffra.
                          M. sanguisuga.
                          M. stigmataria.
                          M. filosa.
                          M. fissurata.
                          M. arenosa.
                          M. clavulus.
                          M. literata.
                          M. Peronii.
                          M. obliquata.
                          M. oniscina.
                          M. scutulata.
                          M. dactylus.
                          M. fenestrata.
                          M. crenulata.
                          M. texturata.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

A Manual of Conchology: According to the System Laid Down by Lamarck, with the Late Improvements by De Blainville. Exemplified and Arranged for the Use of Students.

A Manual of Conchology: According to the System Laid Down by Lamarck, with the Late Improvements by De Blainville. Exemplified and Arranged for the Use of Students.

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