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
splendida.
H. crenulata.
H. planorbula.
H. macularia.
H. maritima.
H. strigata.
H. muralis.
H. rugosa.
H. cornea.
H. linguifera.
H. incarnata.
H. cinctella.
H. cellaria.
H. nitida.
H. obvoluta.
H. Cookiana.
H. pileus.
H. papilla.
H. punctifera.
H. plicatula.
H. planorbella.
H. scabra.
H. cariosa.
H. plebeium.
H. personata.
H. hispida.
H. rotundata.
H. apicina.
H. striata.
H. conspurcata.
H. conica.
H. conoidea.
H. pulchella.
_H. algira._ The yellow Snail. Pl. 18, fig. 8.
Species shaped like a Planorbis, rough or hairy, more or less largely
umbilicated, margin sharp.
_H. Naticoides._ The Natica-shaped Snail. Pl. 18, fig. 7.
Species ventricose.
_H. obvoluta._ The small white-lipped Snail. Pl. 18, fig. 9.
Species more or less depressed, umbilicated, Planorbis-shaped, the edges
of the aperture thickened, callous, and even toothed.
_H. conoides._ The cone-shaped Snail. Pl. 18, fig. 4.
Species conoidal; the turns of the spire rounded.
_H. pomatia._ The edible Snail.
Species sub-globular, not umbilicated; the margin of the aperture
thickened; aperture covered with a calcareous lid resembling an
operculum.
_H. nitida._ The pellucid Snail.
Species depressed, more or less largely umbilicated; the edges sharp,
but always thin and shining.
_H. nemoralis._ The grove Snail.
Species imperforated, semi-globular, thin, and sub-pellucid; not
umbilicated, with a light inflexion at the place of the junction of the
columella with the margin of the aperture; colour various, inner margin
white or reddish brown; volutions five, with several dark brown bands.
_H. Carthusiana._ The Carthusian Snail.
Species sub-depressed, sub-umbilicated, with a sharp edge, thickened
within by a roll.
_H. arbustorum._ The orchard Snail.
Sub-globular, sub-pellucid, sub-umbilicated, five volutions, finely
striated longitudinally; mottled with greenish yellow, streaked with
deep chestnut, a broad brown band commonly at the edge of the outer lip,
and running round through the volutions to the apex.
2. Carocolla. Eighteen species.
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