This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 Excerpt: ...into a syphon, the other end rounded: length nearly a quarter of an inch. In fine sand, near Dunbar. NERITA. NERITE. Shell with a single valve, spiral, gibbous, fiattish beneath: aperture half orbicular; the pillarlip transverse, flatfish, and truncate. A. The lips without teeth. 1 to 10. B. The pillar-lip toothed. 11. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 Excerpt: ...into a syphon, the other end rounded: length nearly a quarter of an inch. In fine sand, near Dunbar. NERITA. NERITE. Shell with a single valve, spiral, gibbous, fiattish beneath: aperture half orbicular; the pillarlip transverse, flatfish, and truncate. A. The lips without teeth. 1 to 10. B. The pillar-lip toothed. 11. 1. Nerita sulcata. Grooved Nerite. Fig; 56, 57. Nerita glabrissimus. Brown, Wern. Soc. pi. 24. f. 12. Shell somewhat globular, semitransparent, of a blueishwhite color: spires four, rather pointed, swollen and welldefined; the first very large, the others placed somewhat laterally; all of them marked with rather remote longitudinal striae which are very fine and placed a little obliquely: aperture broad crescent-shaped; the outer lip very thin j pillar-lip rather flat, projecting a little in the middle over the perforation which is long and deep, and marked with a few longitudinal lines: diameter the eighth of an inch. Two specimens of this shell we found among the sand in Dublin bay. From the foreign specimens in our cabinet they differ in size and color, the latter being clear white, and three-quarters of an inch in diameter: the grooves also of our shell are merely fine striae, and placed at more remote distances, v. m. 2. Nerita glaucina. Livid Nerite. Lister, pi. 568. f, 19--Pennant, pi. 90. f. 1--Do Costa, pi. 5. f. 7--Donovan, pi. 20. f. I--Dorset Cat. pi. 21. f. 7. Shell somewhat orbicular, glossy, slightly wrinkled longitudinally, of a livid grey or pale chesnut-brown color, with mostly a chain of deep chesnut-brown zigzag short lines surrounding the junctions of the volutions, and whick are disposed in a longitudinal direction: spires six, rounded and well defined; the first very large and tumid; the others others ending in a fine p...
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