. West coast shells. A familiar description of the marine, fresh water, and land mollusks of United States, found west of the Rocky Mountains ... two lateral teeth; the other has DIXONS RAZOR-SHELL. 20I one front and one side-tooth, which slips in between the othersin the opposite valve. From the teeth in each valve proceedsa strong rib, which extends to above half way across the shell,and gradually looses itself toward the edge, which is smoothand sharp. The color of the outside is white, circularly, butfaintly, zoned with violet, and is covered with a smooth,yellowish-brown epidermis, which
. West coast shells. A familiar description of the marine, fresh water, and land mollusks of United States, found west of the Rocky Mountains ... two lateral teeth; the other has DIXONS RAZOR-SHELL. 20I one front and one side-tooth, which slips in between the othersin the opposite valve. From the teeth in each valve proceedsa strong rib, which extends to above half way across the shell,and gradually looses itself toward the edge, which is smoothand sharp. The color of the outside is white, circularly, butfaintly, zoned with violet, and is covered with a smooth,yellowish-brown epidermis, which appears darkest where thezones are; the inside is white, slighly zoned, and tinted withviolet and pink. The animal, as in all species of this genus,protrudes beyond the ends of the shell very much, and isexceeding good food. The foregoing is declared by Doctor Carpenter tobe probably the first description on record of mol-lusks from the Pacific shores of N. America, by theoriginal collector. I will not add to it except to say that the speciesis now known as Macho? r a pa tula, Dixon, Ma-ke-rapat-u-la, Flat Razor-shell. A picture of a small. specimen is given in Fig. 171. Sometimes it growsnearly six inches in length. It is more common tothe north, but it is also found on the coast of south-ern California. Somewhat similar to this is the Short Razor-shell,Soleciirtus Californianuss Conr., So-le-cur-tus Cal-i-for-ni-a-nus, shown in Fig. 172. The epidermis of 202 SOLEN. this shell is not so glossy as that of the last, and thehinge is more nearly in the middle of the shell. The
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