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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

Mitra papalis.
 M. puncticulata.
 M. cardinalis.
 M. versicolor.
 M. pedicula.
 M. cornicularis.
 M. striatula.
 M. cornea.
 M. melaniana.
 M. episcopalis.
 M. pontificalis.
 M. crocata.
 M. nexilis.
 M. scabrinscrula.
 M. crenifera.
 M. tæniata.
 M. corrugata.
 M. lyrata.
 M. cinctella.
 M. Caffra.
 M. stigmataria.
 M. fissurata.
 M. millepora.
 M. archiepiscopalis.
 M. sanguinolenta.
 M. lactea.
 M. lutescens.
 M. subulata.
 M. tringa.
 M. ferruginea.
 M. adusta.
 M. plicaria.
 M. costellaris.
 M. melongena.
 M. vulpecula.
 M. sanguisuga.
 M. filosa.
 M. ampliorella.
 M. patriarchalis.
 M. harpæformis.
 M. ficulina.
 M. conularis.
 M. dermestina.
 M. dactylus.
 M. conulus.
 M. coronata.
 M. muriculata.
 M. semifasciata.
 M. nucleola.
 M. plumbea.
 M. granulifera.
 M. clavula.
 M. Peronii.
 M. oniscina.
 M. terebralis.
 M. granulosa.
 M. costa.
 M. olivaria.
 M. granatina.
 M. serpentina.
 M. arenosa.
 M. literata.
 M. obliquata.
 M. scutulata.
 M. fenestrata.
 M. texturata.
 M. limbifera.
 M. paupercula.
 M. torulosa.
 M. retusa.
 M. unifascialis.
 M. larva.
 M. tabanula.
 M. crenulata.
 M. aurantiaca.
 M. cucumerina.
 M. ebena.
 M. microzonias.
 M. bacilla.
 M. pisolina.


                      3. Genus _Voluta_. Pl. XII.

_Animal._ Oval, involuted, provided with a very broad foot; head very
distinct; tentacula rather short and triangular; eyes large, altogether
sessile, and situated a little posteriorly; a thick trunk furnished with
hooked teeth at its extremity; two pectiniform branchiæ.

_Shell._ Oval, more or less ventricose; the first whorls of the spire
rounded into a teat; aperture generally much longer than wide and
sloping anteriorly; the right edge bent outwardly, entire and soft; the
columellar edge garnished with large folds more or less oblique, and
slightly varying in number with age. Found chiefly in the seas of the
Torrid Zone. Forty-four species.

 Voluta nautica.
 V. armata.
 V. tesselata.
 V. cymbia.
 V. proboscidalis.
 V. diadema.
 V. ducalis.
 V. Neptuni.
 V. olla.
 V. porcina.
 V. pellis-serpentis.
 V. chlorosina.
 V. polyzonalis.
 V. magnifica.
 V. Magellanica.
 V. fulminata.
 V. scapha.
 V. mitis.
 V. Braziliana.
 V. Guinaica.
 V. undulata.
 V. festiva.
 V. Æthiopica.
 V. imperialis.
 V. vespertilio.
 V. musica.
 V. levigata.
 V. nodulosa.
 V. ancilla.
 V. Pacifica.
 V. Junonia.
 V. melo.
 V. Hebræa.
 V. serpentina.
 V. carneolata.
 V. fulva.
 V. nuclea.
 V. Lapponica.
 V. volvacea.
 V. mitræformis.
 V. nivosa.
 V. thiarella.
 V. sulcata.
 V. vexilla.


                    4. Genus _Marginella_. Pl. XII.

_Animal._ Oval, involuted; foot elliptical, very large, and widest in
front, where its edge presents a transverse furrow; head small,
distinct, with two long, very sharp tentacula, the eyes at the external
part of their base; mouth provided with a trunk.

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