Atlantic pearl-oyster, Pinctada radiata (Rayed birdshell, Avicula radiata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder from William Elford Leach's Zoological Miscellany, McMillan, London, 1814.

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