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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. — John Shaqi

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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._ Oval, compressed, a little elongated, gaping but little,
equivalve, subequilateral, rounded at both extremities; no mark of
posterior keel; summits feebly marked; hinge formed by one or two
contiguous cardinal teeth upon each valve; ligament projecting, two
round muscular impressions, distant and joined by a narrow palleal
impression strongly sinuous behind. Inhabits the sea at Jamaica and
shores of America. Nine species.

 Sanguinolaria occidens.
 S. rosea.
 S. alba.
 S. livida.
 S. rugosa.

        ·       ·       ·       ·       ·

 S. fusca.*
 S. lusoria.*
 S. Nuttallii.*
 S. Californiana.*


                     2. Genus _Psammobia_. Pl. VII.

_Animal._ Unknown.

Resembling the Tellina, from which it was taken, but not having an
irregular plait on the anterior part.

_Shell._ Transverse, oblong-ovate, or elliptical, flattened, slightly
gaping at one side; summits projecting; hinge formed by two primary
teeth in the left valve, and one in the opposite one Inhabits the
European and American seas. Twenty-one species.

 Psammobia virgata.
 P. ferroensis.
 P. vespertina.
 P. muculosa.
 P. alba.
 P. Cayennensis.
 P. lævigata.
 P. Tellinella.
 P. cærulescens.
 P. elongata.
 P. flavicans.
 P. squamosa.
 P. pulchella.
 P. aurantia.
 P. fragilis.
 P. livida.
 P. galathea.

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 P. lusoria.*
 P. fusca.*
 P. Pacifica.*
 P. Florida.*


                     3. Genus _Psammotæa_. Pl. VII.

_Animal._ Unknown.

_Shell._ Of the same form as the Psammobia, but differing in the number
of teeth, the left valve of the Psammotæa having only one tooth; and
sometimes one valve is without teeth, while the other has two; ligament
exterior, attached to callosities at the hinge, and without an irregular
plait. Inhabits the Australian seas. Seven species. One fossil species.

 Psammotæa violacea.
 P. zonalis.
 P. pellucida.
 P. candida.
 P. tarentina.
 P. donacina.
 P. serotina.

N. TELLINARIA. Seven Genera.

The two last of these genera have no lateral teeth, the rest have one or
two.


                      4. Genus _Tellina_. Pl. VII.

_Animal._ Body triangular, much compressed: the free edge of the mantle
furnished with a row of tentacular, largest and longest in the rear;
foot very large, compressed and pointed to the front; buccal appendages
nearly as large as the bronchial laminæ, of which the external pair are
much smaller than the internal; the anterior contractile muscle larger
than the other; tubes very distinct.

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