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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

Ostrea edulis.
 O. ruscuriana.
 O. borealis.
 O. cochlear.
 O. gallina.
 O. lingua.
 O. Braziliana.
 O. rostralis.
 O. denticulata.
 O. cornucopiæ.
 O. doridella.
 O. Limacella.
 O. hippopus.
 O. Adriatica.
 O. cristata.
 O. numisma.
 O. tulipa.
 O. scabra.
 O. parasitica.
 O. spathulata.
 O. cucullata.
 O. rubella.
 O. erucella.
 O. labrella.
 O. radiata.
 O. Canadensis.
 O. mytiloides.
 O. trapezina.
 O. rufa.
 O. gibbosa.
 O. eliptica.
 O. deformis.
 O. plicatula.
 O. fusca.
 O. cristagalli.
 O. virginica.
 O. excavata.
 O. simuata.
 O. tuberculata.
 O. Magaritacea.
 O. Australis.
 O. haliotidæa.
 O. fucorum.
 O. glaucina.
 O. turbinata.
 O. folia.
 O. hyotis.
 O. imbricata.

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 O. semicylindrica.*


                      2. Genus _Gryphæa_. Pl. IX.

_Animal._ Unknown.

_Shell._ More finely lamellated than in the _Ostrea_, free, or slightly
adhering, subequilateral, very inequivalve; the inferior valve very
concave, with a summit more or less recurved in a hook; the superior
opiculiform and much smaller; hinge toothless; ligament inserted in an
elongated and arcuated cavity; a single muscular impression. Habitation
unknown. One species.

 Gryphæa augulata.


                      3. Genus _Vulsella_. Pl. IX.

_Animal._ Body elongated and compressed; mantle much prolonged
posteriorly, and edged with two rows of very close tubercular papillæ; a
moderately large abdominal foot, proboscidiform, canaliculated, without
byssus; a very large transversal mouth with well-developed triangular
labial appendages; branchiæ narrow, very long, and united in nearly all
their extent.

_Shell._ Subnacred, irregular, flat, elongated, subequivalve,
inequilateral, with summits anterior, distant and flexed inferiorly;
hinge oral and toothless; ligament undivided, thick, inserted in a round
pit excavated in a projecting apophysis upon each valve; a moderately
large subcentral muscular impression, and two very small ones altogether
anterior. Inhabits the Indian and Australasian seas. Six living species.
One fossil.

 Vulsella hians.
 V. rugosa.
 V. spongiarum.
 V. lingulata.
 V. mytilina.
 V. ævata.


                      4. Genus _Placuna_. Pl. IX.

_Animal._ Entirely unknown.

_Shell._ Free, subirregular, very fine, almost entirely translucid,
flat, subequivalve, subequilateral, slightly auriculated; hinge
altogether internal, formed upon the superior valve, which is the
smaller, by two elongated, unequal, oblique, crests; converging to the
summit, at the internal side of which a ligament is attached in the form
of a V, a single, small, subcentral muscular impression. Inhabits the
Indian seas. Two fossils in France. Three living species.

 Placuna sella.
 P. papyracea.
 P. placenta.


                       5. Genus _Anomia_. Pl. IX.

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