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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._ Separated from the Murex on account of having no varix fusiform
or subfusiform; spire middling; aperture oval, elongated, nearly
symmetrical, terminated by a rather long, straight tube, the external
edge trenchant, the columellar edge having two or three oblique folds.
Inhabits the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Eight living species.
Seven fossil.

 Fasciolaria trapezium.
 F. aurantica.
 F. filamentosa.
 F. coronata.
 F. ferruginea.
 F. tarentina.
 F. tulipa.
 F. distans.


                       6. Genus _Fusus_. Pl. XI.

_Animal._ Entirely unknown.

_Shell._ With an epidermis, wrinkled, fusiform or dilated in the middle,
prolonged posteriorly by the spire, and still more so anteriorly by the
canal; aperture oval; the columellar edge straight or nearly so, the
exterior trenchant; a horny and oval operculum. Inhabits the Indian and
American seas. Forty-six living species. Thirty-seven fossil.

 Fusus aculeiformis.
 F. contrarius.
 F. longissimus.
 F. laticosta.
 F. collosseus.
 F. tuberculatus.
 F. distans.
 F. incrassatus.
 F. sulcatus.
 F. despectus.
 F. proboscidiferus.
 F. morio.
 F. cochlidium.
 F. raphanus.
 F. polygonoides.
 F. lignarius.
 F. strigosus.
 F. crebricostatus.
 F. colus.
 F. Nicobaricus.
 F. tortulosus.
 F. multicarinatus.
 F. antiquirus.
 F. carinatus.
 F. Islandicus.
 F. coronatus.
 F. corona.
 F. filosus.
 F. verruculatus.
 F. Syracusanus.
 F. varius.
 F. afer.
 F. rubens.
 F. Nifat.
 F. buccinatus.
 F. scalarinus.
 F. curvirostris.
 F. inconstans.
 F. sinistralis.
 F. articulatus.

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 F. pleurotomarius.*
 F. harpularis.*
 F. cinereus.*
 F. fluviatilis.*
 F. decemcostatus.*
 F. bicolor.*


                       7. Genus _Pyrula_. Pl. XI.

_Animal._ Unknown.

_Shell._ Pyriform on account of the depression of the spire, which
distinguishes it from the Fusus; the canal conical, very long or
middling, sometimes a little sloped; aperture oval, rather large; the
columella edge somewhat excavated, entire and trenchant; an operculum.
Found in the Northern and American seas. Twenty-nine living species. Six
fossil.

 Pyrula salmo.
 P. carica.
 P. candelabrum.
 P. tuba.
 P. melongena.
 P. ficus.
 P. spirata.
 P. elongata.
 P. bezoar.
 P. angulata.
 P. nodosa.
 P. abbreviata.
 P. deformis.
 P. lineata.
 P. plicata.
 P. canaliculata.
 P. perversa.
 P. bucephala.
 P. vespertilio.
 P. reticulata.
 P. ficoides.
 P. spirillus.
 P. ternatana.
 P. rapa.
 P. galeodes.
 P. squamosa.
 P. citrina.
 P. neritoidea.

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 P. papyracea.*


                   8. Genus _Struthiolaria_. Pl. XI.

_Animal._ See Triton, hereafter.

_Shell._ Ovate; spire prolonged; aperture sinuous, terminated at the
base by a very short, straight canal: columellar edge callous; right
edge having a thickened varix. Inhabits the Mediterranean and Northern
Seas. Two species.

 Struthiolaria nodulosa.
 S. crenulata.


                      9. Genus _Ranella_. Pl. XI.

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