. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. !|(' in*. SPINED ;i(j)wHu ainiiusa. «Hd!u Itatm. BULL-FROG bv/onia. !?»[ course of writing the descriptions; and I must here return many thanks to Mr. G. B Sowerby fur his liberality in giving me access to his collection, iu order to describe the individual specimens from which the illustrations were taken. Below the Sea Trumpet lies another shell, which would hardly be taken for a Triton until turned over, s
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Reptiles; Fishes; Mollusks; Natural history; Reptiles; Poissons; Mollusques; Sciences naturelles. !|(' in*. SPINED ;i(j)wHu ainiiusa. «Hd!u Itatm. BULL-FROG bv/onia. !?»[ course of writing the descriptions; and I must here return many thanks to Mr. G. B Sowerby fur his liberality in giving me access to his collection, iu order to describe the individual specimens from which the illustrations were taken. Below the Sea Trumpet lies another shell, which would hardly be taken for a Triton until turned over, so as to show the whole of the contour. This is the Wrinkled or Old WoaiAN Triton, so called because the corrugated and rudely oval mouth, with its white crumpled folds, is tlinught to bear some distant lesemblance to the face of an old woman surrounded with a close cap. The Wrinkled Triton is comparatively a small species, as may be seen from the proportions preserved in the figure. Behind the larger figure is seen the Twisted Triton, represented in the act of crawlin^', and given, not so much to exhibit any peculiarity of its shell, which is hidden behind that of the larger species, as to sliow the form of the animal, its large foot, and eyes placed at tlie bases of the tentacles. The operculum of this animal is small and leaf-shaped, the nucleus being at one end. As the spider-shells, which have been recently described, have received their popular names from the distant resemblance Mdiich they bear to the arachnidian race, so the shells uiinii the accoiiipaiiyiiig illustratidii derive tlicir titles from a .still iimro distant ;Iaiicp to the batiachians, iind go by the name of Frog or Toad Shells. Even iu the short siiaee that has been given , the reader must have been struck with the suiguhir percei)tive powers of conehologists, who discover analogies and detect resemblances in creatures so dissimilar in shape; mid Cdlour, that few ar
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