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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

Cyclostoma planorbula.
 C. volvulus.
 C. carinata.
 C. sulcata.
 C. unicarinata.
 C. rugosa.
 C. labeo.
 C. interrupta.
 C. ambigua.
 C. semilabris.
 C. tricarinata.
 C. obsoleta.
 C. patulum.
 C. truncatum,
 C. pulchrum.
 C. Jamaicense.
 C. lineolata.
 C. elongatum.
 C. mirabile.
 C. orbella.
 C. aurantium.
 C. flavula.
 C. fasciata.
 C. mumia.
 C. quarternata.
 C. ferruginea.
 C. decussata.
 C. mammillaris.
 C. maculatum.
 C. ligata.
 C. elegans.
 C. tortum.
 C. mirabile.

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 C. maculata.*
 C. Popayana.*
 C. lapidaria.*
 C. marginata.*
 C. dentata.*


                              FAMILY VIII.

                        LYMNACEA. Three genera.


                       1. Genus _Lymnea_. Pl. X.

_Animal._ See Helix.

_Shell._ Aquatic, oval, sometimes turreted; spire produced, thin,
smooth, edges disunited, the left with a very oblique plait rising on
the columella, forming an oval aperture, destitute of an operculum.
Inhabits the ponds of America and Europe. Thirty-three species.

 Lymnea columnaris.
 L. stagnelis.
 L. palustris.
 L. auricularia.
 L. ovata.
 L. minuta.
 L. luteola.
 L. acuminata.
 L. intermedia.
 L. leucostoma.
 L. peregra.

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 L. rubiginosus.*
 L. solida.*
 L. Virginiana.*
 L. Emmoniensis.*
 L. lessoni.*
 L. apacina.*
 L. catascopium.*
 L. columella.*
 L. elongatus.*
 L. reflexus.*
 L. appressus.*
 L. elodes.*
 L. limosa.*
 L. lapidaria.*
 L. dissimilis.*
 L. ponderosa.*
 L. integra.*
 L. porata.*
 L. lustrica.*
 L. grana.*
 L. subglobosa.*


                        2. Genus _Physa_. Pl. X.

_Animal._ See Helix.

_Shell._ General sinistral, oval, oblong, or globular, very smooth,
spire prominent, aperture oval, contracted posteriorly, right edge
sharp, columella twisting obliquely, and enlarging to join itself to the
anterior part of the margin, the whorls turning to the left hand gives
this shell the appellation of heterostrophe. Inhabits the ditches of
America and Europe. Ten species.

 Physa fontinalis.
 P. hypnorum.
 P. subopaca.

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 P. castanea.*
 P. decisa.*
 P. elongata.*
 P. aurea.*
 P. gyrina.*
 P. heterostropha.*
 P. ancillaria.*


                      3. Genus _Planorbis_. Pl. X.

_Animal._ See Helix.

_Shell._ Discoid, spire depressed, or involuted almost in the same
vertical plane, causing the shell to be depressed on each side, aperture
oblong, luniform, axis remote, margin not reflected; no operculum.
Inhabits the lakes of America and Europe. Twenty-two species.

 Planorbis cornu-arietis.
 P. corneus.
 P. spirorbis.
 P. hispidus.
 P. orientalis.
 P. carinatus.
 P. lutescens.
 P. nitidus.
 P. angulatus.
 P. deformis.
 P. imbricatus.
 P. contortus.
 P. vortex.

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 P. lens.*
 P. glabratus.*
 P. armigerus.*
 P. parallellus.*
 P. exacuous.*
 P. campanulatus.*
 P. trivolvis.*
 P. bicarinatus.*
 P. parvus.*


                               FAMILY IX.

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