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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

_Shell._ Depressed conical, or subturreted; sometimes umbilicated,
frequently carinated at its circumference; interior pearly; aperture
round or depressed, the middle of external edge hollowed; edges rarely
joined by a callosity; columella arched, rarely twisted, not truncated
at the base; an operculum. Inhabits the Indian and American seas.
Fifty-one species.

 Turbo marmoratus.
 T. imperialis,
 T. torquatus.
 T. muricatus.
 T. littoreus.
 T. ustulatus.
 T. Sarmaticus.
 T. cornutus.
 T. argyrostomus.
 T. chrysostomus.
 T. radiatus.
 T. setosus.
 T. Spenglerianus.
 T. petholatus.
 T. undulatus.
 T. pica.
 T. versicolor.
 T. smaragdus.
 T. cidaris.
 T. diaphanus.
 T. rugosus.
 T. coronatus.
 T. crenulatus.
 T. margaritaceus.
 T. vestitus.
 T. incarnatus.
 T. Nicobaricus.
 T. neritoides.
 T. retusus.
 T. bicarinatus.
 T. rudis.
 T. obtusus.
 T. pullus.
 T. cærulescens.
 T. cancellatus.
 T. costatus.
 T. niger.
 T. minimus.
 T. tuberculatus.
 T. zebra.
 T. pintado.
 T. crassus.
 T. fluctuatus.
 T. hippocastanum.
 T. cineræus.
 T. obscurus.
 T. saxosus.

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 T. irroratus.*
 T. canaliculatus.*
 T. palliatus.*
 T. obligatus.*


                      5. Genus _Planaxis_. Pl. XI.

_Animal._ Unknown.

_Shell._ Ovate conical, solid; aperture ovate, sublongitudinal,
columella flat and truncated at the base, separated from the right
margin by a narrow sinus. Interior surface of the right margin furrowed
or lineated, and a callosity running under the summit. Inhabits the
American and W. Indian seas. Four species.

 Planaxis sulcata.
 P. bicolor.
 P. undulata.

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 P. lævigatum.*


                    6. Genus _Phasianella_. Pl. XI.

_Animal._ Spiral; foot oval; upon each side an appendage ornamented with
filaments; head edged anteriorly with a kind of veil formed by a double,
bifid, fringed lip; two, long, conical tentacula; eyes borne upon short
peduncles and situated at the external part of their base; mouth between
two vertical subcornate lips.

_Shell._ Marine; many of them very rare and valuable; their beauty of
colouring disposed so as to resemble the plumage of a pheasant. Oval,
rather thick, smooth and glossy, spire pointed; columella uniting itself
with the left edge, forming interiorly a longitudinal callosity;
aperture oval, larger before, with edges disunited; operculum
calcareous, oval, oblong, subspiral, the summit at one extremity.
Inhabits the British coast. Twelve species.

 Phasianella variegata.
 P. rubens.
 P. bulimoides.
 P. elegans.
 P. lineata.
 P. nebulosa.
 P. sulcata.
 P. angulifera.
 P. lineolata.
 P. perdix.
 P. Mauritania.
 P. Peruviana.


                     7. Genus _Turritella_. Pl. XI.

_Animal._ Spiral; foot fringed anteriorly by a transversely wrinkled
band; tentacula long, very fine towards their extremity, somewhat thick
at their base, and having the eyes upon an inflation; the head skirted
with a veil or fringe garnished with filaments.

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