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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

_Animal._ Body moderately compressed; a byssiferous abdominal appendage;
edges of the mantle furnished with tentacular cirri in several rows;
mouth surrounded with a very thick fringed lip.

_Shell._ Oval, more or less oblique, nearly equivalve, subauriculated,
regularly gaping at the anterior portion of the inferior edge; summits
anterior and distant; hinge buccal, longitudinal, toothless; ligament
rounded, nearly exterior, inserted in an excavation in each valve; a
central muscular impression, divided into three very distinct parts.
Inhabits the Indian, Australasian, American, and Mediterranean seas. Six
living species. Eleven fossil.

 Lima inflata.
 L. squamosa.
 L. annulata.
 L. glacialis.
 L. fragilis.
 L. linguatula.


                       3. Genus _Pecten_. Pl. IX.

_Animal._ Body more or less compressed, orbicular; mantle furnished with
a single row of tentacular papillæ, and with small oculiform,
pedunculated disks, with regular spaces between them; rudiment of a
canaliculated foot, and a byssus; mouth surrounded with fleshy
appendages, irregularly ramified.

_Shell._ Free, regular, thin, solid, equivalve, equilateral,
auriculated; summits contiguous; hinge toothless, a ligamentous membrane
throughout all its extent, besides a short, thick, ligament, almost
altogether internal, and filling a triangular excavation under the
summit; a single subcentral muscular impression. Found in almost all
seas. Sixty-two species; and, according to Defrance, ninety-eight
fossil.

 Pecten maximus.
 P. Jacobæus.
 P. bifrons.
 P. zigzag.
 P. medius.
 P. Latirentii.
 P. pleuronectes.
 P. purpuratus.
 P. pallius.
 P. impricatus.
 P. asperimus.
 P. varius.
 P. glaber.
 P. grisens.
 P. flabellatus.
 P. quadradiatus.
 P. Tranquebaricus.
 P. hybridus.
 P. obliteratus.
 P. Magellanicus.
 P. lineolaris.
 P. nodosus.
 P. pusio.
 P. gibbus.
 P. ornatus.
 P. florens.
 P. opercularis.
 P. tigris.
 P. histrionicus.
 P. turgidus.
 P. aspersus.
 P. plicus.
 P. rastellus.
 P. flagellatus.
 P. flavidulus.
 P. Japanicus.
 P. radulus.
 P. pes-felis.
 P. sauciatus.
 P. aurantius.
 P. sinuosus.
 P. virgo.
 P. Isabella.
 P. flexuosa.
 P. inflexus.
 P. miniaceous.
 P. lividus.
 P. sulcatus.
 P. unicolor.
 P. distans.
 P. irradians.
 P. dispar.
 P. Islandicus.
 P. sulphureus.
 P. pellucidus.
 P. sanguineous.
 P. senatorius.
 P. lunatus.
 P. lineatus.

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 P. dislocatus.*
 P. concentricus.*
 P. monotimeris.*
 P. Latiauratus*
 P. Pealii.*


                    4. Genus _Plagiostoma_. Pl. IX.

_Animal._ Entirely unknown.

_Shell._ Moderately thick, regular, free, subequivalve, subauriculated,
the two valves nearly equally dilated, both provided with a distinct
summit reflexed to the middle of a plane surface, with a large
triangular slope in the middle; articulation transverse, straight, and
by two distant lateral condylæ. Ten species. Fossils only.


                     5. Genus _Plicatula_. Pl. IX.

_Animal._ Unknown.

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