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.
Poe, Edgar Allan
Mollusks
Patella safiana.
P. testitudinaria.
P. cochlear.
P. compressa.
P. granularis.
P. decaurata.
P. Magellanica.
P. stellifera.
P. vulgata.
P. mammillaris.
P. lineata.
P. leucopleura.
P. notata.
P. Tarentina.
P. punctata.
P. puncturata.
P. Javanica.
P. tuberculifera.
P. miniata.
P. pellucida.
P. tricostata.
P. Australis.
P. apicina.
P. granatina.
P. oculus.
P. Galathia.
P. pectinata.
P. viridula.
P. scutellar.
P. radians.
P. cærulea.
P. plumbia.
P. umbrella.
P. pyramidata.
P. luteola.
P. aspera.
P. spinifera.
P. longicosta.
P. barbata.
P. angulosa.
P. saccharina.
P. laciniosa.
P. plicata.
· · · · ·
P. amœna.*
P. alternata.*
P. alveus.*
P. candida.*
5. Genus _Umbrella_. Pl. IX.
_Animal._ Body very thick and oval, provided with a dorsal shell; foot
large, smooth, and flat, surrounded by a border, anteriorly notched,
attenuated behind; head indistinct; four tentacula, the two upper ones
thick, short, and truncated, the other two thin, and shaped like
pedunculated crests; having foliaceous branchiæ.
_Shell._ External, orbicular, subirregular, nearly flat, slightly convex
above, white, with apex near the middle; margin acute, internal surface
rather concave; having a callous disk, coloured, depressed in the
centre, surrounded by a smooth border. Inhabits the Indian Ocean. Two
species.
Umbrella Indica.
U. Mediterranea.
6. Genus _Pleurobranchus_. Pl. IX.
_Animal._ Body creeping, fleshy; mantle and foot expanded; branchiæ
placed on the right side; cloak enveloping the shell; neck short,
contracted in some species, with an emarginate front, exhibiting the
commencement of the inferior tentacula, the upper ones tubular and
cloven; gills at the edge of the dorsal plait, mouth provided with a
short, retractile proboscis.
_Shell._ Depressed, oval, oblong, concentrically wrinkled, almost
entirely open, rounded and convoluted; the vertex with a single turn.
Inhabits the coast of Devonshire in England. Two species.
Pleurobranchus Peronii.
P. Laqueare.
FAMILY III.
CALYPTRACEA. Seven genera.
1. Genus _Parmophorus_. Pl. IX.
_Animal._ Body creeping, thick, oblong-ovate, broad behind, obtuse at
the extremities; border of the mantle cleft before, and suspended
vertically around; head distinct, and slit below; two conical contracted
tentacula, at the base of which are placed the eyes, which are somewhat
pedunculated; mouth below, funnel-shaped, oblique, truncated, and
concealed; branchial cavity opening anteriorly behind the head by a
transverse fissure.
_Shell._ Oblong, very depressed, slightly convex above, obtuse at
extremities, anteriorly channeled by a slight sinus, and having towards
the posterior part a small pointed apex, inclined backwards; the lower
surface slightly concave. Inhabits the Australian seas. Four species.
One fossil.
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