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
Cyclostoma planorbula.
C. volvulus.
C. carinata.
C. sulcata.
C. unicarinata.
C. tricarinata.
C. obsoleta.
C. rugosa.
C. labeo.
C. interrupta.
C. ambigua.
C. semilabris.
C. flavula.
C. patulum.
C. fasciata.
C. mumia.
C. quaternata.
C. ferruginea.
C. decussata.
C. lineolata.
C. mamillaris.
C. ligata.
C. lincinella.
C. orbella.
C. fimbriata.
C. multilabris.
C. elegans.
C. truncatulum.
_C. elegans._ The elegant Cyclostoma. Pl. 19, fig. 5.
Species with spire slightly elevated, ovate, conical, umbilicated;
volutions convex; finely striated transversely.
_C. fasciata._ The banded Cyclostoma.
Species with spire very elevated.
_C. Planorbula._ The Planorbis-shaped Cyclostoma.
Species with spire very depressed.
FAMILY VIII.
LYMNÆCEA. Three genera.
1. Planorbis. Twelve species.
Taken from the Helix of Linnæus to distinguish the aquatic from the
terrestrial shells. This genus is found in fresh water, and has no
operculum.
Shell thin, often sinistral, discoid, or involuted almost in the same
vertical plane; the spire not projecting and entirely lateral, so that
the shell is hollowed or depressed on each side; aperture small,
transverse, with edges sharp, not reflected, disunited by the last whorl
of the spire which modifies it; sometimes carinated.
Planorbis cornu-arietis.
P. corneus.
P. carinatus.
P. lutescens.
P. orientalis.
P. spirorbis.
P. vortex.
P. deformis.
P. contortus.
P. hispidus.
P. nitidus.
P. imbricatus.
_P. carinatus._ The keeled Planorbis.
Species with a keel; depressed, upper side concave.
_P. corneus._ The horny Planorbis. Pl. 20, fig. 4.
Species without a keel.
2. Physa. Four species.
This genus is generally heterostrophe (that is, with whorls turned to
the left hand); found in fresh water; it greatly resembles the Lymnæa,
but has not a widened aperture.
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