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Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4: Zoology
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S. TRIQUETRA. _D._ triquetrum, adhærens.
The reference to Gualtieri (whose figure was somewhat uncertain, yet
probably designed for _Vermilia triquetra_) was queried. The proposed
name was _D. parasiticum_.
S. CONTORTUPLICATA. _D._ teretiusculum, depressum, rugosum.
There was at first no name to the description of this shell; but it
was added in the handwriting of Linnæus.
S. GLOMERATA. _D._ teres glomeratum.
The 'decussato-rugosa' of the 'Systema', applicable to the _'Vermetus
subcancellatus_', the shell designed in that work, was not inserted.
Gualtieri's figure is that of _Vermetus glomeratus_, for the colouring
of which 'alba' would be a most inappropriate term.
S. LUMBRICALIS. _D._ spira divaricata teretiusculum, integrum.
D'Arg. t. 29. f. 1. was an additional synonym.
S. ARENARIA. _D._ teres rectiusculum intestiniforme.
Despite the name borrowed from Rumphius, the _Vermetus gigas_ was the
object defined in the tenth edition of the 'Systema'. The absence from
the manuscript of the reference to Gualtieri's drawing of that shell,
and "rectiusculum" in the written diagnosis, confirms the conclusion
previously arrived at, that the _Septaria arenaria_ of authors was
the species intended in the 'Museum Ulricæ': it was subsequently
termed _S. polythalamia_ by Linnæus. The delusive "subangulata" of the
supposititious diagnosis was of course absent.
The _V. gigas_ was probably intended by the following unpublished
description.
D. INTESTINIFORME. _D._ teres flexuosum intestiniforme.
Testa rudis crassitie digiti et ultro, flexuosa vario modo in diversis,
integra, intus lævis.
S. ANGUINA.
The two very dissimilar _Siliquariæ_ united under this appellation
in the 'Museum Ulricæ,' were originally held distinct. The prickly
variety was the unpublished type, and was thus defined:--
D. ANGUINUM. _D._ spira inæquali angulata aculeata, sulco
longitudinali perforata.
Rumph. 125. t. 41. f. H. Solen anguinus.
Lang. Test. 6. Tubulus vermicularis crista dentata.
Testa albida, teretiuscula, angulis 9 obsoletis. Anfractus inæquales,
nunc confertiores, nunc remotiores. Sulcus longitudinalis in superiore
latere perforatus serie punctorum. Spinæ breves, fornicatæ ad angulos
in latere inferiore.
Condensation, that peculiar faculty of the mental organization of
Linnæus, induced him to suppress this description, and attach the
species, as a variety, to the form he had simultaneously characterized
as _D._ spira elongata, teretiusculum, inerme, fissura longitudinali.
Gualt. test. 10. f. z.
To this latter the published details belong, except the expression
"passim concatenata et quasi poris pertusa" (which was a subsequent
and fallacious addition), and the account of the variety.
S. PENIS. _D._ teres, extremitate radiata disco cylindris poroso.
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