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. 1834 Excerpt: ...Adamson, in the first family of spiral shells; and Lamarck, between the Testacelli, (which follows the Helices and Neritae, ) and the Vermiculaire, or Serpula. Shells of this kind are very rarely found fossils. This species are all marine, and are generally found closely adhering to rocks or stones, within the influx ...
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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. 1834 Excerpt: ...Adamson, in the first family of spiral shells; and Lamarck, between the Testacelli, (which follows the Helices and Neritae, ) and the Vermiculaire, or Serpula. Shells of this kind are very rarely found fossils. This species are all marine, and are generally found closely adhering to rocks or stones, within the influx of the tide; and it requires some adroitness to detach them without injury to the shells. The animal is accounted delicate food. The species are not numerous. It inhabits the sea, near Guernsey, and is, likewise, frequently cast upon the southern shores of Devonshire. The animal is attached by so adhesive a property to the surface of the rocks, that it requires the utmost force to disengage it; though, by a spontaneous action, it is able to remove with facility from place to place. DIVISION I. Shell perforated. Family 1st. Roundish or ovate. Scientific name. Locality. Scientific name. Locality. Mida?, E. In., Maurit., C. G. H. Australis, New Zealand. Pulcherrima, King George's Sound. Gigantea, N. Holland, N. S. Wales. Virginnea, New Zealand. Iris, New Zealand. Tuberculata, Europe, West Indies. Cracherodii, California. No. 32. PATELLA. Limpet. Inhabitant a Slug. Shell univalve, subconic, and without a spire.--Linn us. Patella limpet, are so named from their resemblance to a little plate, and are more or less conic without, and concave within. Some of them have the apex entire, others perforated. The chamber limpets are distinguished by a peculiar kind of projecting process or lip within; most have the margin entire, but some have an indent or fissure in that part; again, others are so spiral or wreathed in their outward appearance, that they resemble rather the trocha than the patella. Limpets are found in great abundance on rocky coasts, ad..
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