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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

Cassis cornuta.
 C. flammea.
 C. rufa.
 C. achatina.
 C. areola.
 C. abbreviata.
 C. saburon.
 C. Ceylonica.
 C. erinaceus.
 C. tuberosa.
 C. fascinata.
 C. pennata.
 C. crumena.
 C. zebra.
 C. sulcosa.
 C. canaliculata.
 C. semigranosa.
 C. Madagascariensis.
 C. glauca.
 C. testiculus.
 C. plicaria.
 C. decussata.
 C. granulosa.
 C. pyrum.
 C. vibex.


                     3. Genus _Ricinula_. Pl. XII.

_Animal._ As above.

_Shell._ Oval or subglobular, thick, armed with points and with a
depressed spire; aperture narrow, elongated, notched, sometimes
canaliculated anteriorly and digitated exteriorly; left edge more or
less callous; operculum horny, oval, and transverse. Found in the Indian
seas. Nine living species.

 Ricinula horrida.
 R. arachnoidea.
 R. digitata.
 R. aspera.
 R. clathrata.
 R. miticula.
 R. pisolina.
 R. morus.
 R. mutica.


                      4. Genus _Purpura_. Pl. XII.

_Animal._ As above.

_Shell._ Oval, tuberculated, thick; spire short, the last whorl much
larger than all the others united; aperture oval, greatly dilated,
terminated anteriorly by a short, oblique canal notched at the
extremity; the columellar edge nearly straight, covered with a
callosity; operculum horny, flat, nearly semicircular, with faintly
marked transverse striæ. Found in the European and South American seas.
Sixty-two species.

 Purpura Persica.
 P. columellaria.
 P. armigera.
 P. undata.
 P. bufo.
 P. planospira.
 P. carinifera.
 P. squamosa.
 P. sertum.
 P. ligata.
 P. imbricata.
 P. bicostalis.
 P. thiarella.
 P. echinulata.
 P. unifascialis.
 P. clavus.
 P. bizonalis.
 P. Francolinus.
 P. cruentata.
 P. lagenaria.
 P. plicata.
 P. rustica.
 P. hystrix.
 P. retusa.
 P. fasciolaris.
 P. nucleus.
 P. subrostrata.
 P. patula.
 P. consul.
 P. hippocastana.
 P. mancinella.
 P. neritoides.
 P. coronata.
 P. sacella.
 P. bulbus.
 P. cariosa.
 P. Rudolphi.
 P. succincta.
 P. bitubercularis.
 P. hæmastoma.
 P. callosa.
 P. callifera.
 P. scalariformis.
 P. rugosa.
 P. textilosa.
 P. lambosa.
 P. lapillus.
 P. cateracta.
 P. fiscella.
 P. semi-imbricata.
 P. deltoides.
 P. trochlea.
 P. vexillum.
 P. distorta.
 P. tectum.

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 P. engonata.*
 P. brevidens.*
 P. lapilloidis.*
 P. harpa.*
 P. Floridana.*
 P. dumosa.*
 P. macrostoma.*


                     5. Genus _Monoceros_. Pl. XII.

_Animal._ As above.

_Shell._ Differs only from the _Purpura_ by a long, conical pointed,
somewhat reflexed tooth in the outer lip. Five species.

 Monoceros cingulatum.
 M. imbricatum.
 M. striatum.
 M. glabratum.
 M. crassilabrum.


                    6. Genus _Concholepas_. Pl. XII.

_Animal._ Entirely unknown.

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