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The Conchologist's First Book: A System of Testaceous Malacology, Arranged Expressly for the Use of Schools, in Which the Animals, According to Cuvier, Are Given With the Shells, a Great Number of New Species Added, and the Whole Brought Up, as Accurately as Possible, to the Present Condition of the Science.Poe, Edgar Allan

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The Conchologist's First Book: A System of Testaceous Malacology, Arranged Expressly for the Use of Schools, in Which the Animals, According to Cuvier, Are Given With the Shells, a Great Number of New Species Added, and the Whole Brought Up, as Accurately as Possible, to the Present Condition of the Science.

Name: The Conchologist's First Book: A System of Testaceous Malacology, Arranged Expressly for the Use of Schools, in Which the Animals, According to Cuvier, Are Given With the Shells, a Great Number of New Species Added, and the Whole Brought Up, as Accurately as Possible, to the Present Condition of the Science.
Author: Poe, Edgar Allan

Poe, Edgar Allan

Mollusks

_Shell._ A testaceous tube turned spirally on a horizontal plane, the
lower portion of which is attached to marine substances, generally fuci:
opening of the tube terminal, rounded or angular. Found on Algæ on the
British coast. Six species.

 Spirorbis nautiloidis.
 S. spirilla.
 S. tricostalis.
 S. bicarinata.
 S. carinata.
 S. lamellosa.


                       2. Genus _Serpula_. Pl. V.

_Animal._ Body tubular, elongated, depressed, and attenuated behind;
segments numerous and narrow; small bundles of awl-shaped bristles in a
single row on each side.

_Shell._ A solid calcareous tube, brown, purple, yellow, tawny, pink,
white, or tinged with green. The shells are irregularly twisted, in
clusters, and affixed to other substances. Inhabits the coast of
Britain. Twenty-six species.

 Serpula vermicularis.
 S. fascicularis.
 S. intestina.
 S. contortuplicata.
 S. plicaria.
 S. glomerata.
 S. decussata.
 S. protensa.
 S. infundibula.
 S. annulata.
 S. cereola.
 S. filograna.
 S. vermicella.
 S. filaria.
 S. pellucida.
 S. intorta.
 S. cristata.
 S. spirulæa.
 S. quadrangularis.
 S. minima.
 S. echinata.
 S. sulcata.
 S. costalis.
 S. dentifera.
 S. sipho.
 S. arenaria.


                      3. Genus _Vermilia_. Pl. V.

_Animal._ Body tubicular, elongated and attenuated towards the posterior
part, and provided superiorly with a simple testaceous orbicular
operculum.

_Shell._ A testaceous cylindrical tube, narrowed in the rear, twisted,
and adhering by the side to marine substances, aperture round, the
margin armed with from one to three teeth. Inhabits the British coast.
Nine species.

 Vermilia rostrata.
 V. triquetra.
 V. bicarinata.
 V. eruca.
 V. subcrenata.
 V. plicifera.
 V. scabra.
 V. tæniata.
 V. plicata.


                     4. Genus _Galeolaria_. Pl. V.

_Animal._ Distinguished from the vermilia by a very peculiar operculum.

_Shell._ In groups, testaceous, cylindrical, subangular, wavy, adhering
by the base, and open at the summit; aperture orbicular, terminated on
the side by a spatular tongue; operculum orbicular, squamose, and
consisting of from five to nine testaceous parts or valves. Inhabits the
Indian seas. Two species.

 Galeolaria cæspitosa.
 G. elongata.


                       5. Genus _Magilus_. Pl. V.

_Animal._ Unknown.

_Shell._ Usually found imbedded in a species of Madrepore. Base bent
into a spiral form, oval, with four contiguous, convex volutions (the
last of which is the largest), and prolonged into a straight waved tube,
convex above, carinated beneath. Inhabits the sea at the Isle of France.
Two species.

 Magilus antiquus.
 M. muricatus.




                               CLASS II.
                              CIRRHIPEDA.

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