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The printed description and the synonymy are so very dissimilar to the
written one, that I entertain no doubt that an early definition of _T.
Niloticus_ (with references to "Olear. Mus. t. 9. f. 5" and "Bonan.
3. f. 102") was transmuted into that of a granular species, by the
addition of "quasi granis exasperata," &c.
T. SOLARIS was not mentioned in the manuscript.
T. PERSPECTIVUS. _T._ crenato-umbilicatus convexus obtusus: margine
acuto.
"Bonan. 3. f. 27, 28" was quoted, as illustrative: "costa crenata" not
"costa concava", was the earlier reading.
T. HYBRIDUS. _T._ crenato-umbilicatus, convexus, undique obtusus.
The proposed name was _T. spurius_. The "absque carina, rotundata" was
"absque angulis, glabra": "albo, flavoque" preceded "variegata".
T. PHARAONIUS. _T._ umbilicatus subovatus striatus, punctis globulosis,
labio dentato.
"Habitat in mari rubro, frequens. D. Hasselquist." was written: the
final remark was absent.
T. MAGUS. _T._ umbilicatus convexo-conicus nodosus.
The "cinereo nebulosa" was a manuscript emendation by Linnæus.
T. MURICATUS. Except that "obverse" precedes "ovata", both the
diagnosis and the details are precisely similar to the printed account.
T. SCABER. _T._ umbilicatus subovatus, sulcis alternis majoribus
moniliformibus.
The erroneous figure of d'Argenville was not cited in the original,
nor, indeed, was any name attached to the description. The whorls were
said to number from 6 to 8 (not 4 or 5); and the aperture was termed
"ovata," not "subrotunda." "Pallida", the final remark, and the present
construction and enlargement of the passage relative to the inner lip
(which at first ran thus, "Labium posticum coadunatum, sinu postico
excisum"), had been added by Linnæus himself.
T. LABIO. _T._ exumbilicatus ovatus striato-tuberculatus, labio
dentato.
The erroneous figure of d'Argenville was not cited; "variegata"
was the earlier reading of "marmorata"; "aliquot" of "et punctis";
"externo" of "margine". Linnæus himself had enlarged the account of
the inner lip from the earlier "postice sinu excisum" to its present
length.
T. ZIZYPHINUS. _T._ umbilicatus conicus, striis papillosis.
This is clearly not the imperforated _zizyphinus_ of the 'Systema.'
Gualtieri was not referred to; "ambitu marginati", and "in aliis
clausus", were not in the copy: "columella parum obliqua" was an
addition in the Linnean handwriting.
T. TELESCOPIUM. _T._ exumbilicatus pyramidatus, striis exaratus; labio
postice recurvato, spirali, integro.
"Bon. 92", and "Klein 26. Pseudotrochus striatus", were the additional
synonyms of the MS.
T. DOLABRATUS. _T._ umbilicatus, labio postico recurvato sulcato,
ovato-pyramidalis, glaber.
The whorls were at first called imbricated. The "basis rotundata", and
"in superioribus vero unica", had been added by Linnæus.
TURBO.
Testa conica. Apertura orbicularis, integra.
T. PERSONATUS. _T._ exumbilicatus inermis convexus, labio postice
diducto.
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