Black-lip oyster, Pinctada margaritifera (Pearl muscle, Mytilus margaritifer). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1806.

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