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. 1822 Excerpt: ...# Fared interna obliqud. 1-2. With the internal cavity oblique. uctea. Lccina testd orbiculari (iquilaterali, striolis transtersis irre-gularibus. Shell orbicular equilateral, with fine irregular transverse atria. Tab. nost. 7, fig. 4 and 5. Tellina lactea. Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 1119. o Gmelin, Syst. p. 3240. Turton, ...
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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. 1822 Excerpt: ...# Fared interna obliqud. 1-2. With the internal cavity oblique. uctea. Lccina testd orbiculari (iquilaterali, striolis transtersis irre-gularibus. Shell orbicular equilateral, with fine irregular transverse atria. Tab. nost. 7, fig. 4 and 5. Tellina lactea. Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 1119. o Gmelin, Syst. p. 3240. Turton, Linn.-Syst. iv. p. 195, Chemnitz, vi. p. 130, tab. 13, fig. 125. Pennant, Brit. Zool. iv. p. 182. Montagu, Test. Brit. p. 70, tab. 2, fig. 4. Linn. Trans, viii. p. 56. Turton, British Fauna, p. 151. Dorset Catal. p, 30, tab. 5, fig. 9. Wood, Couch, p. 187. Dillwyn, Descript. Catal. p. 99. Turton, Conch. Diet. p. 176. Mus. nost. Torbay and the British Channel. Shell three quarters of an inch in diameter, thin, rather flat, white or yellowish, irregularly striate transversely: beaks centra, prominent, pointed and curved, with a small heart-shaped impression under them; ioside white, polished round the area of the margin, where it is slightly striate longitudinally: in one valve a single plain toot&i, closing between two plain ones in the other. Lucina testa subobliqud ituequilatiiuli, strii$ (ransrersis regu-Leucoma. laribus longitudmcUibusque minitnis. Shell rather oblique and inequilateral, with regular transverse stria? and minute longitudinal oues. Tab. nost. 7, fig. 8. Mus. nost. Torbay, British Channel, and Guernsea. Shell five eighths of an inch in diameter, convex, orbicular but a little produced and angular on the anterior side, and generally a little flexuous under the beaks on the other side, of a chalky wb.ite color, and marked with regular crowded transverse raised stria-and deeper wrinkles; these are crossed by extremely fine and close-set longitudinal lines: beaks prominent, with a curvature wider them: inside and hinge as i...
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