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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._ Smooth, polished, oval-oblong, a little conical, with a short
mammelonated spire; aperture somewhat narrow, slightly oval on account
of a light curve of the right edge, which is dilated outwardly; the
columellar edge marked with three oblique distinct folds. Inhabits the
Indian Ocean. Twenty-four living species and nine fossil, according to
Defrance.

 Marginella radiata.
 M. limbata.
 M. lifasciata.
 M. dentifera.
 M. bullata.
 M. avellana.
 M. glabrella.
 M. quinqueplicata.
 M. rosea.
 M. faba.
 M. dactylus.
 M. cornea.
 M. nubeculata.
 M. aurantia.
 M. longivaricosa.
 M. eburnea.
 M. persicula.
 M. tessellata.
 M. cærulescens.
 M. bivaricosa.
 M. muscaria.
 M. formicula.
 M. lineata.
 M. interrupta.


                     5. Genus _Volvaria_. Pl. XII.

_Animal._ As above.

_Shell._ Cylindrical, convolute; spire obsolete or concealed; aperture
narrow, extending the whole length of the shell, with one or more folds
on the lower portion of the columella. Inhabits the Indian Ocean. Seven
species.

 Volvaria pallida.
 V. monilis.
 V. miliacea.
 V. triticea.
 V. oryza.
 V. bulloides.
 V. canaliculata.


                              FAMILY XXI.

                         CONVOLUTA. Six genera.


                      1. Genus _Cypræa_. Pl. XII.

_Animal._ Oval, elongated, involute; head provided with two very long
conical tentacula; eyes at the extremity of an inflation which forms a
part of them; a transverse buccal orifice at the extremity of a kind of
cavity, at the bottom of which is the true mouth between two thick
vertical lips; a lingual band, bristled with small teeth, and prolonged
into the abdomen.

_Shell._ Oval, convex, very smooth, involute; spire entirely posterior,
very small, often concealed by a calcareous layer deposited by the lobes
of the mantle; aperture longitudinal, very narrow, slightly arcuated, as
long as the shell, and with the edges internally dentated, and notched
at each extremity. Inhabits the W. Indian seas and Sandwich Islands. One
hundred and eighteen species.

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