The natural history of British shells, including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discovered in Great Britain .. . LUTA TORNATILIS. OVAL VOLUTE. GENERIC CHARACTER. Animal Limax. Shell spiral, aperture narrow, without a plicated. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Shell oval, pointed at each end, and striated spirally. Pillar lipturned in a fold. Voluta tornatilis : testa coarctata ovata substriata : spira elevata acutiuscula, columella uniplicata. Gmel. Linn. Sj/Ji. p. parvum, rostro integro, tenuiter striatum, fasciatum, cla- vicula paulo product
The natural history of British shells, including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discovered in Great Britain .. . LUTA TORNATILIS. OVAL VOLUTE. GENERIC CHARACTER. Animal Limax. Shell spiral, aperture narrow, without a plicated. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Shell oval, pointed at each end, and striated spirally. Pillar lipturned in a fold. Voluta tornatilis : testa coarctata ovata substriata : spira elevata acutiuscula, columella uniplicata. Gmel. Linn. Sj/Ji. p. parvum, rostro integro, tenuiter striatum, fasciatum, cla- vicula paulo productiore, unico dente ad colu- mellam. List. II. Conch, tab. 835. fig. Midae fasciata. Klein Ostrac. p. 37. §. 96. fp. I. No. tornatilis. Oval. Penn. Br. Zool. No. 86. tab. 86. Schroet. n. Litterat. 3. t. 12. Turbo ovalis striatus rubicundus fasciis albis, columella uniplicata & unidentata. Da Costa Br. Conch. p. 101. tab. 2. 51. PLATE LVII. This pretty species, says Da Costa, I have received fromTinmouth and Exmouth, in Devonshire; and Pennant notes kfrom Anglesea only. o8. PLATE LVIII. MACTRA LUTRARIA. GENERIC CHARACTER. Animal a Tethys. Bivalve, sides unequal. Middle tooth compli-cated, with a little groove on each side ; lateral teeth remote. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Shell oblong oval, smooth; no lateral teeth. Hinge, a small andlarge triangular cavity in one valve ; a similar cavity and an elevatedtriangular tooth in the opposite. Mactra LUTRARIA : testa ovali oblonga laevi, dentibus lateralibus nullis. Gmel. Linn. Syst. p. 3259. sp. 14. Concha longa lataque in mediis cardinibus cavitate quadam pyriformiinsignita.—An Chamae glycymeris Rondeletii ? List. H. Angl. p. 170. tit. 19. tab. A. fig. 19.— Chama fusca lata planior. Hist. Conch, tab. 415. fig. lone and broad conch. Wallis Nor thumb, p. 396. No. 10. lutraria, large. Penn. Br. Zool. No. 44. tab. 52. fig. 44. Chemnitz. Conch. 6. t. 2
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