. Beautiful shells : their nature, structure, and uses familiarly explained, with directions for collecting, cleaning, and arranging them in the cabinet : descriptions of the most remarkable species, and of the creatures which inhabit them : and explanations of the meanings of their scientific names, and of the terms used in conchology. Shells; Shells; Mollusks. THE WHELZ. shell. To give variety to this group, we Avill now throw in a land species called Megaspira Rmchenhergiami, about the origin of whose name we cannot even liazard a guess; the termination of the generic name, you will see is
. Beautiful shells : their nature, structure, and uses familiarly explained, with directions for collecting, cleaning, and arranging them in the cabinet : descriptions of the most remarkable species, and of the creatures which inhabit them : and explanations of the meanings of their scientific names, and of the terms used in conchology. Shells; Shells; Mollusks. THE WHELZ. shell. To give variety to this group, we Avill now throw in a land species called Megaspira Rmchenhergiami, about the origin of whose name we cannot even liazard a guess; the termination of the generic name, you will see is spira, and. a glance at the shell will at once suggest a reason for this; its long tapering spire consists of twenty-three closely-set gradually increasing whorls. This is a rare sliell, whose in- habitant has not yet been described by naturalists; several of the marine species closely resemble it in shape. Much more might be said about the Land and Tresli-water Shells, but we must here leave them, having a wide field before us, namely, the Sea or Marine Testacea, one of the most common of which is THE WHELK, . A univalve shell inhabited by a gasteropod moUusk, or, we should rather say, naturally so tenanted, for very frequently it is taken possession of by the Soldier or Hermit Crab, which having no hard covering to protect their soft plump bodies, are obliged to take lodgings where they can get them, and generally prefer the Whelk shell, of which we here give a figure. This is one of the commonest of our Marine Mollusks; it is called by naturalists Buccinum undatum; the first, or generic term, being the Latin for a trumpet, and the second, or specific name, meaning waved, or, as we often say, undu- lated. So we call this the AVaved Whelk; fishermen term it the Conch, or the Buckie, and tell strange stories of its raven- ous appetite and murderous propensities; how, with its spiny tongue, situated at the end of a long flexible proboscis or. Please note that these images are ex
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