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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._ Fusiform, a little wrinkled, with a turriculated spire; a small
oval aperture, terminated by a straight canal more or less long, with
the right edge trenchant; a horny operculum. Distinguished from the
Cerithium by having a notch in the margin. Twenty-nine living species.
Thirty fossil.

 Pleurotoma muricata.
 P. echinata.
 P. flavidula.
 P. imperialis.
 P. auriculifera.
 P. spirata.
 P. bimarginata.
 P. cingulifera.
 P. Babylonia.
 P. marmorata.
 P. crispa.
 P. nodifera.
 P. maculata.
 P. interrupta.
 P. cincta.
 P. crenularis.
 P. unizonalis.
 P. lineata.
 P. fascialis.
 P. buccinoides.
 P. virgo.
 P. undosa.
 P. tigrina.
 P. albina.
 P. mitra.
 P. elegans.
 P. curvirostris.

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 P. decussata.*
 P. bicarinata.*


                     3. Genus _Turbinella_. Pl. XI.

_Animal._ Imperfectly known.

_Shell._ Usually turbinated (but sometimes turriculated), wrinkled,
thick; spire slightly variable in form; aperture elongated, terminated
by a straight canal, and often rather short; the left edge nearly
straight and formed by a callosity concealing the columella, which has
two or three nearly transverse and unequal folds; the right edge entire
and trenchant. Found in the Equatorial or Australian seas. Twenty-three
species.

 Turbinella scolymus.
 T. napus.
 T. pugillaris.
 T. rapa.
 T. pyrum.
 T. leucozonalis.
 T. cingulifera.
 T. mitis.
 T. infundibulum.
 T. lineata.
 T. triserialis.
 T. ocellata.
 T. rustica.
 T. polygonia.
 T. carinifera.
 T. rhinoceros.
 T. cornigera.
 T. ceramica.
 T. capitella.
 T. globulus.
 T. craticulata.
 T. nassatula.
 T. variolaris.


                    4. Genus _Cancellaria_. Pl. XI.

_Animal._ See _Purpura_, hereafter.

_Shell._ Oval or globular, wrinkled; spire middling and pointed;
aperture wide, ovate, grooved, and sometimes canaliculated anteriorly;
the right edge concave and trenchant; the left nearly straight and
marked in the middle with two or three folds; operculum horny. Inhabits
the Indian Ocean. One species only is found in America. Forty-nine
living species. Twenty fossil.

 Cancellaria crispa.
 C. costifera.
 C. articularis.
 C. brevis.
 C. pusilla.
 C. bullata.
 C. tuberculosa.
 C. pulchra.
 C. cancellata.
 C. similis.
 C. chrysostoma.
 C. rugosa.
 C. hæmastoma.
 C. rigida.
 C. costata.
 C. goniostoma.
 C. trigonostoma.
 C. levigata.
 C. spirata.
 C. obliquata.
 C. scalata.
 C. contabulata.
 C. crenifera.
 C. scalarina.
 C. littoriniformis.
 C. elegans.
 C. asperella.
 C. oblonga.
 C. tesselata.
 C. nodulifera.
 C. cassidiformis.
 C. Australis.
 C. reticulata.
 C. candida.
 C. ovata.
 C. Obesa.
 C. acuminata.
 C. solida.
 C. gemmulata.
 C. decussata.
 C. indentata.
 C. alba.
 C. clavatula.
 C. uniplicata.
 C. mitriformis.
 C. tritonis.
 C. granosa.
 C. piscatoria.

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 C. buccinoides.*


                    5. Genus _Fasciolaria_. Pl. XI.

_Animal._ Entirely unknown.

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