. Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged according to their apparent affinities . CARACOLLA acutissima, Two- Toothed Disk Snail. Class Mollusca. Order Phytophages. Swains. Generic (?) Character. Animal with four tentacular, the lower pair very short ; Shelldiscoid, greatly depressed ; the spire but slightly raised abovethe body whorl ; aperture large, oblique, angulated ; thelower portion generally dentated; the margin thickened an
. Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged according to their apparent affinities . CARACOLLA acutissima, Two- Toothed Disk Snail. Class Mollusca. Order Phytophages. Swains. Generic (?) Character. Animal with four tentacular, the lower pair very short ; Shelldiscoid, greatly depressed ; the spire but slightly raised abovethe body whorl ; aperture large, oblique, angulated ; thelower portion generally dentated; the margin thickened andreflected. Specific Character. Shell imperforate, with the spiral whorls flattened obliquely, thebody ichor I acutely carinated, and convex beneath : outer lipreflected; with from 1 to2 tuberculated teeth near the extremity. Caracolla acutissima. Lam. Syst. 6. p. 2. p. 95. Knorr. vol. 4 pi. 5. /. 2. , Meth. pi. 462. /. 1. A. de Ferrusac. pi. 58. f. caracolla. Gucrin. Iconog. du Reg. A mm. Mol. pi. o. f. I. It is seldom we can deliniate more than the coveringof testations animals, particularly where the species arenatives of tropical countries. In the present instancewe owe this power to the si
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