A manual of the Mollusca, or, A rudimentary treatise of recent and fossil shells . ing the oil, and the canal the wick. (Fleming.) The reversed variety(F. contrarius, Sby) is found in the Medit., and on the coast of Spain; itabounds in the pliocene tertiary (crag) of Essex. The fasus deformis, asimilar sp., found off Spitzbergen, is always reversed. FAMILY III. BucciNiD^. Shell notched in front; or with the canal abruptly reflected, producing akind of varis on the front of the shell. Animal similar to murex; lingual ribbon long and linear, (fig. 16) ra-chidian teeth single, transverse, dentate
A manual of the Mollusca, or, A rudimentary treatise of recent and fossil shells . ing the oil, and the canal the wick. (Fleming.) The reversed variety(F. contrarius, Sby) is found in the Medit., and on the coast of Spain; itabounds in the pliocene tertiary (crag) of Essex. The fasus deformis, asimilar sp., found off Spitzbergen, is always reversed. FAMILY III. BucciNiD^. Shell notched in front; or with the canal abruptly reflected, producing akind of varis on the front of the shell. Animal similar to murex; lingual ribbon long and linear, (fig. 16) ra-chidian teeth single, transverse, dentated in front; uncini single. Carnivorous, BucciNUM, L. A^helk. Etym., buccina, a trumpet, or tritons-sheil. Type, B. undatum. PI. V., fig. 10. Shell few whirled ; whirls veutricose; aperture large ; canal very short,reflected; operculum lamellar, nucleus external. (See pisania) Bistr., 20 typical species. Northern and Antarctic seas. Low v/ater to100 fms. (Forbes). (B ? clathratum, 136 fms., off Cape.) Fossil, 130 sp., inchxAm^pisania^ &c. Gault ?—Miocene—. Brit., Fig. 70. Nidamental capsules of Ihe Whelk* The whelk is dredged for the market, or used as bait by fishermen; itmay be taken in baskets, baited with dead fish. Its nidamental capsules areaggregated in roundish masses, which, when thiown ashore, and diifted bythe wind resemble corallines. Each capsule contains five or six young, which,when hatched, ai-e like fig. 70, b : a, represents the inner side of a singlecapsule, shewing the round hole, fi-om which the fry have escaped. * Fig. ^0. From a small specimen, on an oyster-shell, in the cabinet of AlbanyHancock, Esq. The line at b, represents the length of the young shell. GASTEEOPODA. HI Suh-genus. Cominella, Gray. Ex. B. limhosum, purpura maculosa, & as iafusus. About 12 sp. PsEUDOLiVA, Swainson. Etym., named from its resemblance to oJiva, in form. Si/n., sulco-buccinum, DOrb. Gastridium (Gray), G. Sowerby. Tijpe, P. plumbea. PI. V., fig. 12. She
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