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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

10. Genus _Eburna_. Pl. XII.

_Animal._ Entirely unknown.

_Shell._ Oval or elongated, smooth; spire pointed, its whorls as if
softened off; aperture ovate, elongated, widely notched anteriorly; the
right margin entire; columella callous posteriorly, umbilicated, and
subcanaliculated at its left side; an operculum. Found in the Indian and
South American seas. Five species.

 Eburna glabrata.
 E. Ceylonica.
 E. spirata.
 E. areolata.
 E. lutosa.


                     11. Genus _Terebra_. Pl. XII.

_Animal._ Spiral and high; foot oval with a transverse anterior furrow,
and two lateral auricles; head bordered with a small fringe; tentacula
cylindrical, terminating in a point and very distant; eyes indistinct,
situated at the foot, and at the external side of the tentacula; mouth
without proboscis; tube of the respiratory cavity very long.

_Shell._ Without epidermis, ovate, with a pointed spire, low, or
subturriculated; aperture wide, oval, with a strong slope anteriorly;
lower end of the columella twisted. Found in tropical seas. Twenty-four
species.

 Terebra macalata.
 T. crenulata.
 T. dimidiata.
 T. raphanula.
 T. muscaria.
 T. flammea.
 T. striatula.
 T. chlorata.
 T. cerithina.
 T. subulata.
 T. oculata.
 T. Babylonica.
 T. Senegalensis.
 T. cingulifera.
 T. scabrella.
 T. lanceata.
 T. granulosa.
 T. duplicata.
 T. corrugata.
 T. cærulescens.
 T. myuros.
 T. strigilata.
 T. aciculina.
 T. vittata.


                               FAMILY XX.

                       COLUMELLARIA. Five genera.


                    1. Genus _Columbella_. Pl. XII.

_Animal._ Imperfectly known; eyes placed much below the middle of the
tentacula.

_Shell._ Thick, turbinated, with a short obtuse spire; aperture narrow,
elongated and terminated by a very short canal, narrowed by an inflation
at the inner side of the right edge, and by some folds on the columella;
a very small horny operculum. Inhabits the Indian and American seas.
Twenty species.

 Columbella rustica.
 C. Hebræa.
 C. semipunctata.
 C. reticulata.
 C. strombiformis.
 C. mercatoria.
 C. flavida.
 C. bizonalis.
 C. turturina.
 C. pardalina.
 C. ovulata.
 C. zonalis.
 C. mendicaria.
 C. punctata.
 C. scripta.
 C. nitida.
 C. fulgurans.
 C. unifascialis.

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 C. labiosa.*
 C. avara.*


                       2. Genus _Mitra_. Pl. XII.

_Animal._ Entirely unknown.

_Shell._ Turriculated, subfusiform and oval; spire always pointed at the
summit; aperture small, triangular, widest anteriorly where it is
strongly emarginated; external edge trenchant, nearly straight, always
longer than the columella, which is formed by a very thin callosity, and
marked with oblique parallel folds, the anterior of which are the
shortest; no operculum. Inhabits the Chinese seas. Eighty species.

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