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.
Wyatt, Thomas
Mollusks
pediculus.
C. oryza.
C. coccinella.
C. Australis.
C. albella.
_C. exanthema._ The measly Cypræa.
Species oblong-ovate, brown, with round white spots; dorsal line
grayish; marginal teeth brown; spire not quite concealed.
_C. Pantherina._ The Panther Cypræa. Pl. 31, fig. 4.
Species regular, beautifully spotted like a panther.
3. Terebellum. One species.
Shell convolute, thin, shining, sub-cylindrical, pointed behind,
truncated before; aperture longitudinal, edges entire, columella
truncated.
_T. subulatum._ The awl-shaped Terebellum. Pl. 31, fig. 3.
Answers to the above description, being the only living species known.
4. Ancillaria. Four species.
An intermediate genus between the Terebellum and the Oliva;
distinguished from the former by a callous oblique band at the base of
the columella; and from the latter by not having the spiral whorls
separated by a groove.
Shell smooth, oval, oblong, pointed behind, enlarged and truncated
before; the columella covered anteriorly by a callous oblique band; the
right lip obtuse.
Ancillaria cinnamomea.
A. ventricosa.
A. marginata.
A. candida.
_A. cinnamomea._ The cinnamon Ancillaria. Pl. 30, fig. 5.
Species with spire nearly obsolete; shell chestnut colour, with white
bands; varix of the columella reddish and somewhat striated.
5. Oliva. The Olive. Sixty-two species.
An oval, involuted, internal shell, distinguished from the Ancillaria by
a narrow canal continued from its upper angle around the sutures of the
spiral whorls. It was formerly classed with the Voluta, which genus has
not the canal, so that they cannot be mistaken for each other. There is
a callosity uniting with the spiral canal, and another at the base of
the columella.
Shell thick, solid, smooth, oval, elongated, sub-cylindrical; the spiral
whorls very small, separated by a canal; aperture long, narrow; the
columellar edge reflected anteriorly by a callosity, and striated
obliquely through all its length. The shells are generally clouded or
covered with waved lines of a brownish colour, more or less dark.
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