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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

Ancillaria cinnamonea.
 A. ventricosa.
 A. candida.
 A. marginata.


                       5. Genus _Oliva_. Pl. XII.

_Animal._ Oval, involute, mouth somewhat thin at its edges, prolonged to
the two angles of the branchial aperture in a tentacular band, and,
anteriorly, by a long branchial tube; foot very large, oval,
subauriculated, with a transverse cleft anteriorly; head small, with a
labial proboscis.

_Shell._ Thick, solid, smooth, oval, elongated, subcylindrical; the
whorls of the spire very small, and separated by a canal; aperture long
and narrow, the columellar edge dilated anteriorly by a band striated
obliquely in all its length. Found in the Australian and Equatorial
seas. Only one species has been found in America. Sixty-three species.
Six fossil.

 Oliva textilina.
 O. pica.
 O. angulata.
 O. sepulturalis.
 O. irrisans.
 O. episcopalis.
 O. venulata.
 O. leucophœa.
 O. inflata.
 O. harpularia.
 O. ustulata.
 O. tessellata.
 O. espidula.
 O. candida.
 O. tigrina.
 O. utricula.
 O. porphyria.
 O. erythrostoma.
 O. themulina.
 O. maura.
 O. fulminans.
 O. elegans.
 O. guttata.
 O. undata.
 O. bicincta.
 O. hepatica.
 O. avellana.
 O. carneola.
 O. oriola.
 O. volutella.
 O. Brazilliana.
 O. reticularis.
 O. granitella.
 O. literata.
 O. tricolor.
 O. mustelina.
 O. funebralis.
 O. Peruviana.
 O. fusiformis.
 O. acuminata.
 O. luteola.
 O. hiatula.
 O. Ceylonica.
 O. fabagina.
 O. undatella.
 O. nana.
 O. oryza.
 O. flammulata.
 O. araneosa.
 O. scripta.
 O. sanguinolenta.
 O. lugubris.
 O. glandiformis.
 O. senagalensis.
 O. auricularis.
 O. subulata.
 O. testacea.
 O. obtusaria.
 O. nebulosa.
 O. conordalis.
 O. eburnea.
 O. Zonalis.

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 O. mutica.*


                       6. Genus _Conus_. Pl. XII.

_Animal._ Elongated, much compressed, involute; foot small, oval, long,
widest in front, where it is edged by a transverse furrow; head
tolerably distinct; tentacula cylindrical, having the eyes near their
summit, which is setaceous; mouth at the bottom of a long labial trunk;
a somewhat short tongue, although projecting into the visceral cavity,
and bristled with long styliform hooks in two rows.

_Shell._ Covered with a periosteal membrane, thick, solid, involute,
conical; summit of the cone anterior, spire slightly projecting, or not
at all; a very narrow longitudinal aperture; external edge straight and
trenchant; the internal also straight with oblique folds in its anterior
portion; a very small horny operculum, subspirated, with a terminal
summit. Found in the Australian and Mediterranean seas. One hundred and
eighty-one species.

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