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Title: A Conchological Manual
Author: George Brettingham Sowerby
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1. _Spondylus Americanus. (Young.)_
2. _Nautilus pompilius. (Young.)_
_G. B. S. Jun^r. fecit._
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A
CONCHOLOGICAL MANUAL.
BY
G. B. SOWERBY, JUN.
ILLUSTRATED BY UPWARDS OF SIX HUNDRED AND SIXTY FIGURES
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SECOND EDITION.
CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED AND IMPROVED.
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LONDON:
HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
MDCCCXLII.
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PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
It may be necessary in introducing this little volume, to state, that it is
strictly conchological, and that it is compiled for the use not only of
those who wish to acquire an elementary acquaintance with the subject, but
also of authors and others, who, desirous of extending their knowledge and
pursuing their researches, require a book of reference, containing a
general outline of what has been done by those who have trodden the same
path before them. It has been thought advisable, for general convenience,
to arrange the principal part of the information in alphabetical order:
adding tables of the systems of Lamarck and De Blainville, to facilitate
the systematic pursuit of the science.
Persons of the class first alluded to, will find great assistance in the
explanation of technical words, their application being further
illustrated, in most cases, by a reference to the figures; and, although
they might have been multiplied, it is trusted that enough are given for
every useful purpose.
The definition of the Classes, Orders, Families, and Genera, in the system
of De Blainville, and a tabular view, are presented for the use of those
who prefer it, or who wish to compare it with that of Lamarck.
In the explanation of the figures, will be found a systematic arrangement
of shells, according to Lamarck, including the names of genera established
or proposed since the publication of his system. The descriptions of
established genera have been rendered as concise and clear as possible. It
is hoped that no essential characters are omitted, and that those living
authors, whose proposed generic distinctions have been passed over in a few
words, will not have to complain of want of justice in the attempt to
interpret their meaning.
In most cases the generic name will be found accompanied by its derivation.
This has been done, in the hope of assisting the memory by associating the
meaning of a term with some peculiarity in the thing described. At the end
of each description of a genus, some general observations occur, pointing
out the principal character which distinguishes it from others, to which it
is nearly allied; and also stating the geographical or geological
distribution and habits of the animal.
The above descriptions and definitions are illustrated by a series of
plates, containing above 500 etchings of nearly as many proposed or
established genera, arranged in Lamarckian order, so as to show at a glance
all the generic forms of each family. And, although from their number, they
could not be very highly finished, it is hoped that they will be found
characteristic.
The compiler cannot replace his pen without acknowledging, with filial
gratitude, the kind assistance of one who has sacrificed much of his time
in bringing his knowledge and experience to bear upon the correctness and
utility of this humble attempt to remove some of the difficulties to which
the commencement of this, as well as of every other study, is exposed.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
The favourable reception and rapid sale of the first edition of the
Conchological Manual having rendered a second necessary, the Author takes
this opportunity of explaining the nature of the alterations which have
been made. In doing this, he has to thank his friends for their
suggestions, which, together with his own increased knowledge and
experience, enable him to present a more complete and satisfactory work to
the scientific public.
For the further convenience of those who are studying the rudiments of the
science, an entirely new Introduction is given, in which, commencing with
the structure and gradual developement of the shell, the author has
endeavoured to explain the general principles of Conchology in systematical
order. This Introduction is illustrated by 100 wood-cuts, which will be
found greatly to assist the Student.
The definitions have been rendered more full and complete than before, and
the Author has profited by some manuscript notes communicated by a
scientific friend, to whom he desires to present his humble
acknowledgments. Upwards of four hundred explanations have been given of
words which did not appear in the former edition, three-fourths of which
are of generic and subgeneric names.
A large number of notes, referring to the geographical distribution of the
genera, have been added from the pen of Mr. G. B. Sowerby, Senior.
The plates have been carefully improved; and three, containing upwards of
eighty figures, have been added.
On the whole, it will be found that the amount of matter has been nearly
doubled; all the defects, as far as they have been discovered, have been
removed, and every means used of making the present edition as useful as
possible.
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NAMES OF AUTHORS ABBREVIATED.
_Adans._ Adanson. Author of "Voyages du Senegal."
_Bl._ Blainville. Author of "Manuel de Malacologie et de
Conchyliologie," &c.
_Brod._ W. J. Broderip, Esq. Author of various descriptions of Shells
in the Zoological Journal, &c.
_Brongn._ Brongniart. Author of "Memoire sur les terrains du Vicentin,
d'Italie, de France, et d'Allemagne," &c.
_Brug._ Brugière. Author of "Dictionaire des Vers testacés, dans
l'Encyclopédie," &c.
_Cuv._ The late Baron Cuvier. Author of "Regne Animal," &c.
_Defr._ Defrance. Contributor to the "Annales des Sciences Naturelles,"
&c.
_Desh._ Deshayes. Author of "Coquilles fossiles des environs de Paris,"
&c.
_D'Orb._ D'Alcide D'Orbigny.
_Drap._ Draparnaud. Author of "Histoire Naturelle des Mollusques
terrestres et fluviatiles de la France," &c.
_Fer._ De Ferussac. Author of "Histoire Naturelle des Mollusques
terrestres et fluviatiles," &c.
_Flem._ Fleming.
_Gmel._ Gmelin. Author of an edition of Linnæus's "Systema Naturæ," &c.
_Guild._ Rev. Lansdown Guilding.
_Hübn._ Hübner.
_Humph._ The late George Humphrey.
_Lam._ Lamarck. Author of "Animaux sans Vertebres," &c.
_Lin._ Linnæus. Author of "Systema Naturæ," &c.
_Mont._ Montague. Author of "Testacea Britannica," &c.
_Montf._ Montfort. Author of "Histoire Naturelle des Mollusques," &c.
_Müll._ Müller. Author of "Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilum,"
"Zoologiæ Danicæ," &c.
_Ranz._ Ranzani. Author of "Considerations sur les Balanes," &c.
_Schum._ Schumacher.
_Sow._ Sowerby. The late James. Author of "Mineral Conchology," &c.
George Brettingham, Senr., "Genera of Shells," "Species Conchyliorum,"
&c. G. B. Jun. "Conchological Manual," "Conchological Illustrations,"
"Thesaurus Conchyliorum," Descriptions of New Shells in the Zoological
Proceedings, &c.
_Sw._ Swainson. Author of "Zoological Illustrations," "Exotic
Conchology," "Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia," &c.
_Turt._ Turton. Author of "British Shells."
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INTRODUCTION.
The Science of Conchology affords a very delightful and instructive
amusement for the leisure hours of those who, retiring occasionally from
the gaieties of fashionable life, seek pleasure in the quiet contemplation
of some of the smaller, but not less wonderful operations of creative
wisdom. And, although the study of shells would be more complete, and rank
higher in the scale of philosophical pursuits, were it always accompanied
by that of the animal inhabiting them, it nevertheless presents means of
intellectual gratification, to many who cannot follow it beyond the cabinet
and the boudoir. These may examine with admiration and mental improvement,
the beautiful colouring and architecture of these wonders of the deep, they
may exercise their taste and judgment in the selection and arrangement of
specimens, and their discrimination in detecting and appreciating the
distinctions upon which the arrangement is founded.
It is but little that can be known of the subject without forming a
collection of greater or less extent; for, as it would be uninstructive
merely to delight the eye with the bright colours and elegant form of
shells, without possessing correct information respecting them, so it would
be insipid and useless to learn technicalities without being acquainted by
personal observation with the subjects to which they are applied. The first
endeavour should, therefore, be to obtain a few shells as examples of the
larger divisions, and, when these are understood, to proceed with the
smaller groups, until a collection be formed to represent as many generic
forms as possible. It may be as well here to advise those who are forming a
collection to be very particular in every practicable instance to have the
shells properly named at the time of purchasing; as it will save much
trouble, and materially assist in the attainment of the desired object. To
this end, recourse should be had to those naturalist tradesmen, who unite
the attainment and diffusion of real scientific knowledge with their
commercial pursuits.
Supposing, however, that the person who desires to learn the science,
possesses a small parcel of unarranged and unnamed shells, without any
previous acquaintance with the subject, the following introductory
explanations, are drawn up with the view of enabling him, without further
assistance, to obtain a general insight into its principles, equal to that
of those who have studied it long and laboriously. To effect this, he must
read them, carefully comparing the descriptions with the figures referred
to, and with the specimens which he may have at command.
After describing the nature of the science and defining its objects, we
shall proceed to explain the structure of those objects, and the manner of
their growth. We shall then enter somewhat minutely into the principles of
classification, the distinctions upon which they are founded, and some of
the technical terms used to express them. After which we shall pass through
the arrangement of Lamarck, defining the general divisions adopted under
the terms of "_Classes_, _Orders_, and _Families_," as far as they are
capable of definition. The subdivision of the latter into _genera_ will
only be entered into so far as to enumerate the principal of them, the more
minute descriptions being reserved for the alphabetical part of the work.
Let none be discouraged by the number of generic distinctions proposed and
adopted in modern times; for if well defined, they will be found to
facilitate rather than encumber the science. The knowledge of species must
be the foundation of every system, and the greater their number, the more
necessary it becomes to subdivide them; if, for instance, all the species
now known were to have been included in the 50 genera of Linnæus, a single
genus would have contained many hundreds of incongruous species, in which
case it would be much more difficult to remember them, than if they were to
be divided into a far greater number of genera. Every well marked division,
however arbitrary its limits, tends to simplify the subject, and to
facilitate the researches of the student.
NATURE OF THE SCIENCE.
Conchology is the study of shells, viewed and described as to what they are
either in themselves, or in relation to the soft, inarticulate animals
which produce them, and of which they form a part. These animals are called
MOLLUSCA, and perhaps the best general description of them will be found in
De Blainville's "Manuel de Malacologie et de Conchyliologie." The following
is a translation, "Animal in pairs, the body and its appendages soft,
inarticulate (not jointed), enveloped in a muscular skin, commonly called
the mantle, which is extremely variable in form, and has developed either
within or upon it a calcareous portion, consisting of one or several
pieces, commonly called a SHELL."
The term Mollusca was formerly restricted to those soft animals which were
destitute of shells, although possessing in other particulars, the
characters described above, and it was used in order to distinguish them
from the TESTACEA, which were covered or internally supported by calcareous
parts. In the system of Linnæus, the soft portions are first arranged under
the general designation of "Vermes Mollusca," and described without regard
to the presence, absence, or character of the shells; and then the shells
are separately characterized under the appellation of "Vermes Testacea,"
without any further notice of the animal, than an indication of the genus
to which it belongs; thus the animal of Cypræa is said to be a Limax, and
that of Tellina a Tethys.
The nearest approach to correctness, and the most philosophical method of
study will be found in the modern system, adopted by Lamarck and his
followers, of observing these animals as a whole, and arranging them
according to the assemblage of characters which they present; of course
taking into consideration the existence or non-existence, form and
structure of the shell, on the same principle, which, in arranging the
vertebrated animals would lead us to study the hair, hoof, nails, claws,
&c. as well as the other parts.
At the same time, it must be admitted that there are many private
collectors of Shells who would find it a difficult, if not impossible task
to study minutely and successfully the soft parts of the Mollusca. Ladies,
for instance, could not be expected to handle with pleasure and
perseverance, these fleshy substances, which in order to be preserved from
putrefaction, must be kept in spirits; and yet such persons may, with
improvement and advantage to their own minds, enjoy the interesting and
scientific amusement of studying and arranging the clean and beautiful
natural objects which are so easily preserved, and so exquisitely curious
in their structure. Let it also be remembered, that if shells had not been
rendered commercially valuable, by the zeal and emulation manifested by
_mere_ Conchologists for the possession of rare specimens, few travelling
merchants and sea captains would have thought them worthy of a corner in
their cabins. In this case, few specimens being brought to the country, the
more Philosophical Naturalist would have been left without the means of
obtaining materials to work upon, or of attracting public attention to his
favourite pursuit.
On account of these and other considerations, it has been thought advisable
that the present undertaking should bear a purely conchological character.
The peculiarities of the shells alone being detailed for the assistance of
those who collect and study them, while at the same time, in deciding upon
their affinities and places, in the arrangement, it will be necessary to
take advantage of the conclusion to which those have arrived, who have
studied the animal in all its parts. And the conviction must be expressed,
that if ever a complete Natural System shall be formed it will result from
the labours of the last mentioned class of naturalists.
DEFINITION OF A SHELL.
Before entering minutely into the description of shells, it will be
necessary to distinguish from the true testaceous Mollusca two kinds of
animals which have formerly been associated with them. Of these, the first
is the class of CRUSTACEA, consisting of crabs, crayfish, &c. These differ
from shell-fish, not only in structure and chemical composition, but also
in the fact that the animal has jointed limbs, and that the substance of
the flesh is inseparable from the hard external covering, which invests
each particular joint as with a sheath; whereas the Molluscous animal is
but partially attached to its shell, from which it possesses the power of
partly withdrawing and returning. The second class is that to which the
sea-urchin, or Echinus, belongs, of which there are many genera and
species. The testaceous covering of Echini is composed of a number of small
pieces, placed edge to edge, forming a more or less globular external
covering to the flesh, which is supported in the centre by a number of
bones leaning upon each other in a pyramidal form. The _test_ is of a
fibrous texture, guarded on the outside with moveable spines, which turn on
ball and socket joints.
A true shell is composed of one or more calcareous pieces, commonly called
valves, each piece formed by a series of layers, applied obliquely upon
each other, in such a manner that each new layer begins within, and
terminates a little in advance of the one before it.
STRUCTURE AND GROWTH.
We shall now endeavour to describe the manner in which the growth of each
separate valve, or each regularly formed shell, proceeds from the nucleus.
Before the young animal has left the egg, if it be an _oviparous_ species,
or the body of the parent if _viviparous_, the nucleus of the shell is
generally formed, and specimens are sometimes preserved in which the young
shell is seen within the egg, as in the cut, fig. 1, 2; or adhering to the
inner surface of the full-grown shell by the dried mucus of the animal, as
seen in fig. 3.
[Illustration: 1. Egg of a Bulinus. 2. The same broken, shewing the young
shell. 3. The young of a Paludina, as seen in the aperture of the shell.]
In both cases, the nucleus is generally of a more horny and transparent
composition than the parts subsequently produced. As soon as the animal is
hatched, or, in other words, leaves the egg or body of the parent, of
course it begins to increase in size, and to require a corresponding
enlargement in the shell. To effect this, a small quantity of mucus
substance, secreted by the mantle of the animal, is deposited on the edge
of the aperture. When this is dry and become sufficiently hard, it is lined
by a more calcareous secretion; and these together form a new layer, which
is followed by others in succession; each new layer being larger than the
one that preceded it until the whole being complete, the full-grown animal
is invested with a shell commensurate with its own proportions. Thus from
the apex or nucleus the formation proceeds, as it were, downwards, taking
the shape of the part which secretes it, on which it is in a manner
moulded.
The nucleus, or first formed portion, may for technical purposes be
considered, mathematically, as the apex of a spiral cone. And here it must
be observed, that whether the shell consist of one or several pieces, each
piece has a separate nucleus, and the process of formation is separately
repeated with each. The word cone is used for convenience, and its meaning
extended so as to include all those structures which commencing at a point
enlarge downwards.
[Illustration: 4. Imaginary cone. _a._ Apex. _b._ Base. _l._ Lines of
growth.]
From the apex, the next layer is deposited on its edge, and advancing
beyond it necessarily adds to its extent. Thus, suppose for the sake of
illustration, the part marked _a_ in the diagram, fig. 4, to represent a
nucleus, the cross lines (_l_) will shew the consecutive layers, which
enlarge their circle as they add to their numbers. This disposition of
shelly matter into layers is marked externally by concentric striæ, or
_lines of growth_, while on the inside the edges of the laminæ are
consolidated into a kind of enamel. If a perpendicular section of a solid
portion of a shell were magnified, it would present, in many instances, an
appearance resembling the diagram, fig. 5; _a_ may be taken to represent
the horny part of the layers which form the outer coating, named
"_Periostaca_," or "_Epidermis_;" the undulating line _b_, is formed by the
edges of the calcareous layers, and causes the striæ, or lines of growth,
which are often distinguishable on the surface of the shell; the space _c_
is the middle part of those layers, and at _d_ they are consolidated into
the enamel which lines the interior.
[Illustration: 5. Supposed section of a part of a solid shell.]
In some species the layers are irregularly grouped together, and their
edges overlap each other, so that they are easily separable, and advancing
beyond each other, give a leafy appearance to the external surface. This
structure is termed _foliaceous_. A very familiar instance of this may be
observed in the common oyster. If a specimen of this shell be broken, the
substance will be seen to exhibit a degree of looseness, and a magnifying
glass will enable the student to trace distinctly the laminæ of which it is
composed. The accompanying representation of a magnified section (fig. 6)
will shew at _a_, the external surface, with the foliations or leaves; at
_b_, the parcels of layers which form them; and at _c_, the pearly
structure produced by their consolidation, and by the subsequently
deposited enamel which covers their external surface.
[Illustration: 6. Section of an oyster shell enlarged.]
CLASSIFICATION.
The classification of shells, that is, their systematic arrangement into
_classes_, _orders_, _families_, _genera_ and _species_, cannot be made to
depend entirely upon the characters observable in them, viewed by
themselves; for this reason, that many similarly formed shells form the
habitations of animals perfectly distinct, and that many molluscous animals
are found to agree with each other in every respect but in the form of
their testaceous support. There are, however, many important distinctions
to be observed in the shells themselves, leading to the establishment of
many of those very divisions, which would afterwards be confirmed by an
examination of the soft parts. It is necessary to attend, as far as means
and opportunity will allow, to _all_ the points of difference, both in the
shell and in the animal, in order to form, and in some instances even to
appreciate, a generic or larger distinction. It will therefore be our
endeavour to explain the general principles upon which those distinctions
are formed, and the manner in which they are applied and expressed in
detail by scientific writers.
NUMBER OF PIECES, OR INDEPENDENTLY FORMED PARTS.
The first, most simple and obvious division of shells, is that which
results from the number of separate pieces composing them. Hence the
distinction implied by the terms UNIVALVE, or consisting of a single piece;
BIVALVE, or composed of two pieces; and MULTIVALVE, or composed of more
than two. For an example of _univalve_, take a common whelk; for a
_bivalve_, take a muscle or a scallop; and for a _multivalve_, the
barnacle, or balanus, found adhering to the common oyster.
But although this arrangement may appear at first sight perfectly easy and
plain, some explanation will be necessary in order to guard the student
against understanding the above expressions in their strictest sense,
without qualification. Thus the univalves are said to consist of a single
piece, or spiral cone; but it would be more correct to speak of this piece
as forming either the whole or the principal part of the shell: for there
is in many instances, a much smaller flattened piece attached to the foot
of the animal, which being drawn in when it retires, closes the aperture as
with a kind of door, to which in fact the word valve might be very properly
applied; it is called however the OPERCULUM, and the little horny plate,
frequently drawn out by means of a pin from the aperture of a periwinkle,
will present a familiar example.
[Illustration: Accessary valves of a Pholas.]
The same may be said respecting the bivalves; for besides the principal
portions or valves of which the shell is composed, there are in many
species, one or two smaller separate portions, named "_accessary plates_"
by some authors. They are fixed by means of cartilages, on the back of the
hinge.--The engraving, fig. 7, represents the accessary valves of a species
of Pholas, which was on this account arranged by Linnæus with the
Multivalves. Nearly allied to the Pholades is a set of shells to which De
Blainville has given the name "_Tubicolæ_," or inhabitants of tubes. In
this case, the bivalve shell is connected with a testaceous tube or pipe,
to which it is attached either by one or by both valves, or in which it
lies attached only by the cartilages of the animal. In the genus
Aspergillum, the two small valves are soldered into the sides of the tube
in such a manner as to constitute a part of it. One of these shells, called
the Water-spout, might be taken up by a person not aware of its real
nature, and regarded as a pipe or tube prettily fringed, and nothing more;
but upon a closer examination, he would find the two valves, the points of
which are visible from the outside of the tube.
HABITS--_Land, Fresh-water, or Marine Shells._
Another distinction, leading to important results in classification, is
that which is derived from the nature of the element breathed by the
Mollusc. And although this consideration belongs more especially to the
study of the animal itself, yet the habits of the animal materially
influence the structure of the shell.
The TERRESTRIAL or LAND Molluscs live on land, breathe air, and feed on
plants and trees.--Those who find pleasure in horticultural pursuits will
at once call to mind a too familiar example of these Molluscs in the common
garden snail. The Land-shells are all univalves, and constitute a family in
the Lamarckian system under the name "_Colimacea_," or snails,
corresponding with the Linnean genus Helix.--They are generally light in
structure and simple in form.
The AQUATIC, or Fresh-water Molluscs, such as the Planorbis, commonly
called the Fresh-water Snail; the Unio--known by the name of Fresh-water
Muscle, is found in ponds, ditches and rivers. The _epidermis_ of these is
generally of a thick, close-grained character, and they are subject to
corrosion near the umbones. There are but few genera of fresh-water shells
besides the Uniones, among bivalves, and the "Melaniana" among univalves.
Concerning the former it may be observed, that they are all pearly within,
and the colour of the thick horny coating embraces all the varieties of
brownish and yellowish green.
The MARINE, or _sea-shells_, belong to all the classes and orders, and
include by far the greater number of species. They vary in the habits of
the animal, and consequently in the situations in which they are found.
Some are found buried in sand and marine mud, and are named "_Arenicolæ_"
or inhabitants of sand; others in holes of rocks and other hard substances,
then they are named "_Petricolæ_,"--some of these latter form the holes in
which they live by corroding or eating away the stone. A section of these
form the family of "_Lithophagidæ_," or stone-eaters, of Lamarck. Others,
again, take up their parasitical abode in the bodies of animals, and feed
upon their substance; as for instance, the Stylifer, which is found in the
vital part of star-fish, and Coronula, and Tubicinella, found buried in the
skin of the whale.
LOCOMOTION--_Attached, Unattached._
A much more subordinate source of distinction arises from the freedom or
attachment of the shells. Some of them float or walk freely in their
natural element; others are fixed or attached to foreign bodies. Among
those which are attached, there is again a difference as to the mode of
attachment. Some are united to foreign bodies by means of a glutinating
substance, secreted by the animal, and joining part of the surface of the
shell to that of the stone, coral, or other substance. In this way shells
are fixed to each other in groups; this is the case with the Spondyli among
bivalves, and the Serpulæ among univalves. M. de Blainville applies the
term "_Fixæ_" to these shells. Others are kept in a particular place by
means of a _Byssus_ or Tendinous fibrous line or bunch of silky hairs,
acting as a cable, and allowing the Mollusc to ride as it were at anchor.
This Tendon is connected with some part of the animal from which it passes
through an opening or hiatus in the shell, as in the Terebratula and the
Mytilus.
[Illustration]
In the former, represented by the cut, fig. 8, the tendon passes through a
perforation in the upper valve; and in the latter, Mytilus, fig. 9, the
byssus passes out between the valves.
Before proceeding to explain the characters of the different groups,
according to the modern system of classification, it may be desirable to
explain the terms by which the different parts and characters are
described, and to shew the manner in which the shells are measured. For
this purpose we shall treat of the general divisions separately. We begin
with
UNIVALVE SHELLS.
In considering Univalves merely with reference to their mathematical
construction, the first point demanding our attention is, whether they are
symmetrical or non-symmetrical, or, in other words, whether a straight line
drawn through the shell would divide it into two equal parts. The greater
part of univalves are non-symmetrical, being rolled obliquely on the axis;
but many are symmetrical, being rolled horizontally on the axis. The
Nautilus presents an illustration of the latter; the Snail is a familiar
example of the former.
_Symmetrical Univalves._
[Illustration]
In describing these it will be well to commence with the most simple form,
such as the Patella,--taking a conical species as an example. In this it
will be observed that there is no winding or curvature, but a simple
depressed cone, and that the line _a_, _p_, divides it into two equal
parts.
The _anterior_, _a_, (_cut_, fig. 10) is known by the interruption of the
muscular impression which surrounds the central disc (_d._) This
interruption of the muscular impression is in the place where the head of
the animal lies in the shell. The impression itself is caused by the
fibrous muscle which attaches the animal to the shell. The apex (_a_) in
Patella, generally leans towards the anterior (_a_) part of the shell, and
away from the posterior (_p_); and this circumstance has caused some
mistakes, because in Emarginula the apex leans towards the posterior; and
students, instead of examining the muscular impression, which is the only
criterion, have only noticed the direction in which the apex turned, and
concluded that to be the anterior, towards which it inclined. The lines or
ribs running from the base to the apex of the shell, in the direction _r_,
are called _radiating_ lines; and those which encircle the cone in the
direction _c c_, from front to back, are very properly described as
_concentric_. The _length_ is measured from front to back in the line _e_;
the breadth, from side to side, in the line _b_; and the depth from the
apex to the base.
Let it be observed that patelliform, or limpet-shaped shells are not all
symmetrical; Umbrella, Siphonaria, Ancylus, &c. will form exceptions, of
which we have yet to speak. And the learner may also be reminded that the
Limpets themselves are not _all_ regular in their form: for as they adhere
to rocks and other rough surfaces, and are so little locomotive, in many
instances they partake of the inequalities of the surface, and conform to
its irregularities. This adherence is not effected by any agglutinating
power in the animal, nor by any tendinous process like that described
above; but simply by means of the foot of the animal acting as a sucker.
The next variation in symmetrical univalves is to be observed in the
tubular, curved form, the example of which will be the Dentalium, fig. 12.
[Illustration: Dentalium Elephantinum.]
This has an opening at the anterior termination _a_, called the aperture.
The opening at the posterior end (_p_) is named a fissure, or perforation.
The ribs running along the sides of the shell are _longitudinal_, or
radiating. And the lines round the circumference are _lines of growth_, or
_concentric_--each one having in succession, at earlier stages of growth,
formed the aperture. They are described as concentric, or transverse.
_Symmetrical Convolute Univalves._
The Nautilus, the Spirula, the Scaphite, and the Ammonite are the leading
types of this form; but when we use the term symmetrical, in reference to
these, the word must not be understood in its strictest sense, for no shell
is _perfectly_ symmetrical: but it means that there is no perceptible
difference in the proportion of the two sides; as in the human body, the
right side is larger and more powerful than the left, yet to a degree so
small that it gives no apparent bias to the figure.
CHAMBERED SHELLS.
Many of the shells now under consideration are chambered, that is, the
internal cavity is divided into separate compartments by plates reaching
across it, named _Septa_; and the only connection between the chambers is
formed by the small pipes passing through them, to which the name of Siphon
is attached.
_Septa._
The septa are _simple_ in some species, as in the Nautilus, fig. 13. In
others they are _undulated_, having waved edges, as in some species of
Ammonites; in others they are _angulated_, as in Goniatites, fig. 480 in
the plates; and in the greater number of instances, among the Ammonites,
they are _arborescent_, or branched.
[Illustration: 13. Section of Nautilus.--14. Undulating Septa.--15.
Arborescent Septa.]
In the above section of a Nautilus, fig. 13, diminished in size, showing
the whorls and chambers (_c_), it will be seen that the edges of the septa
(_s_) are formed in one simple curve. In fig. 14, the upper part of an
Ammonite, the undulating line will be seen; and in fig. 15 a specimen is
given of the arborescent septa.
_Siphon._
The Siphon is _dorsal_ when placed near the outside of the whorls;
_central_ when near the middle; and _ventral_ when near the inside of the
whorl, or that part which leans against the last volution. When it passes
uninterruptedly from one chamber to another, it is described as
_continuous_, as in the case of Spirula; when, on the other hand, it only
passes through the septum a little distance, and opens into the chamber, as
in Nautilus, it is _discontinuous_.
_Whorls of Symmetrical Univalves._
They are _disunited_ when they do not touch each other, as in the case of
Spirula (fig. 471 in the plates); but in the contrary case they are said to
be _contiguous_. In some species of Nautilus the whorls overwrap each other
in such a manner that the early whorls are entirely covered by the last,
the edges of which reach to the centre of the disk: the spire is then said
to be _hidden_; as in the Nautilus Pompilius. In Nautilus umbilicatus the
spire is nearly hidden, the whorls not quite covering each other; but in
the greater number of the Ammonites, the largest part of the preceding
whorls is seen. To express the degree in which the whorls overwrap each
other, has caused much difficulty in concise descriptions. Perhaps it would
be well to apply the term _spiral disc_ to so much of the shell as is seen
besides the last whorl, and to describe it as large or small in diameter,
compared with the whole: or to say that the whorls of the spire are half,
or one-third, or one-fourth covered, as the case may be.
_Aperture of Symmetrical Univalves._
In Ammonites Blagdeni and some others the aperture is of an oblong square;
it is then said to be _sub-quadrated_; in Nautilus triangularis it is
_angulated_; in Ammonites Greenoughi it is of an interrupted oval shape,
described as _elliptical_. In the greater number of Orthocerata, it is
rounded or _circular_. The entrance of the last whorl into the aperture of
some rounded species of Nautilus causes it to take a _semi-lunar_ form; if
rounded at the sides it is said to be reniform or kidney-shaped; if pointed
at the sides it is _semi-lunar_; and in some species of Ammonites, it is
five-sided or _quinque-lateral_.
_Measurement of Symmetrical Conical Univalves._
[Illustration]
The _width_ is measured across the aperture, which is the widest part of
the shell. The _length_ (_l_) from the dorsal part (_d_) of the aperture to
the dorsal part of the _whorl_ (_d_) on the opposite part of the shell. The
_ventral_ part of the whorls is that nearest to the axis, and the _dorsal_
that which forms the outline of the figure.
NON-SYMMETRICAL UNIVALVES.
These are _conical_, _irregular_, _spiral_, or _convolute_. The _conical_
form is when there is no enrolment of the apex. Although the Patellæ were
described as symmetrical, there are several species of Patelliform shells
which are not symmetrical. In Umbrella, for instance, the apex is oblique,
the shells being placed obliquely on the animal. In the genus _Siphonaria_,
there is a groove on one side, where the brachia or gills of the animal
rest. In the genus Ancylus, it will be observed that the apex bends on one
side, and the animal is like the Limnæa, which has a spiral shell. The cup
and saucer Limpets, or Calyptrædæ, present a group which requires to be
described, differently from the symmetrical or true Limpets. Their
structure is very curious, and they vary considerably among themselves,
some of them being simply conical, others nearly flat, or discoidal, and
others more or less spiral. But their principal peculiarity consists in
their having a small internal process or plate variously shaped, commonly
named their _septum_.
_Septa of Limpets._
The septa of Limpets assume a variety of forms, the principal of which will
be seen in the accompanying engravings.
[Illustration]
The form from which the group derives its generic appellation is that of
the cup-shaped or _Cyathiform_ species (fig. 17). In the Crepidulæ, or
Slipper-Limpets, the septum is flat, reaching across the opening, like the
deck of a vessel; it is then described as _transverse_ (fig. 20). In
Calyptræa Equestris, it has two prominent points, and is described as
_bi-furcated_ (fig. 18). In another species, it is a three-sided plate
rather spiral at the apex (fig. 19).
_Measurement of Cup and Saucer Limpets._
[Illustration]
The line marked _a_, _p_, _ll_ indicates the direction in which the shell
is to be measured for _length_. _a_ indicates the _anterior_, _p_ the
_posterior_. The line _d_ (fig. 23), from the apex to the base, is the
_depth_. The line _b_ (fig. 28), is in the direction of the breadth.
_Irregular non-symmetrical Univalves._
Serpuliform shells are irregularly twisted (_tortuous_) hollow tubes, which
were formerly considered to have been secreted by a kind of worm, but now
known to be the shells of true Molluscs, of a kind not very widely
differing from those which have regularly spiral shells. The greater part
of these are attached to foreign bodies, or to each other in groups. Some
are attached by the whole length of the shell, they are then said to be
_decumbent_. Some of these are coiled round like the Spirorbis, the little
white shell seen on the carapace of the Lobster or on leaves of sea-weeds;
they are then said to be discoidal; others again, such as the _Vermetus_,
approach more nearly to the spiral form. The deviation from the regular
spire only taking place after the few first volutions.
SPIRAL NON-SYMMETRICAL UNIVALVES.
As these constitute the largest class, it will be necessary to dwell upon
them in detail. First as to _measurement_.
[Illustration]
The length is measured from the apex, to that part of the aperture _a_
(fig. 24), at the greatest distance from it. The _breadth_ is in the
opposite direction. The _anterior_, or front part of the aperture, is
marked _a_, where the head of the animal protrudes.
_Spire of non-symmetrical Univalves._
[Illustration: Fig. 25, _obtuse_; 26, _acute_; 27, 28, _decollated_; 29,
_concave_; 30, _papillary_; 31, _mammellated_; 32, _discoidal_.]
In counting the whorls of which the spire consists, we commence at the
apex, and reckon downwards to the last, or body whorl. The spire is
described as being long or short in relation to the aperture: in which
case, all that is above the aperture is measured with the spire. Its apex
requires particular notice, as the character of the whole shell frequently
depends upon the particulars observable in this part. It is sometimes
_obtuse_, or blunt; sometimes _acute_, or sharp. In the Cones it is
frequently flat, and in Planorbis it is concave. It is sometimes of a
different structure from the rest of the shell, retaining the horny and
transparent appearance which characterized it when the animal was first
hatched. The Tritons present an instance of this, although it is not always
observable, owing to the tenderness of the substances which causes it to
break or fall away in many specimens. A very remarkable instance also
occurs in Bulinus decollatus (cut, fig. 27, 28), so named, because the
apex, to the depth of several whorls, falls off, and the shell is
_decollated_. In this, and many more instances, among Pupæform land shells,
the occurrence of this circumstance seems to be by no means rare or
accidental, a provision having been made for filling up the opening by a
septum. A _papillary apex_ is one which is swelled at the extremity into a
little rounded nob, or nipple; and a _mammellated_ apex is one which is
rounded out more fully into the shape of a teat.
_Whorls._
The spire is described as consisting of _numerous_ or _few_ whorls, and
sometimes the number of them is particularly stated. A whorl consists of
one turn of the spiral cone. The whorls are described as _flattened_, when
the sides are not bulged out so as to cause the outline of the spire to
deviate considerably from straightness: when the contrary is the case, the
whorls are said to be _ventricose_, and either _rounded_ or _angulated_.
The degree of rapidity with which the whorls become enlarged presents an
important source of distinction. The _suture_, or seam, which separates one
whorl from another is also noticed as being _distinct_ or otherwise;
_canaliculated_, or grooved; or covered by an enamel, which in some
instances is swelled into a ridge or _tumid_.
[Illustration: Fig. 33, _few_; 34, _numerous_; 35, _rounded_, _ventricose_;
36, _angular_, _ventricose_; 37, _flattened_.]
_Suture._
[Illustration: Fig. 38, _canaliculated_; 39, _enamelled_.]
_Varices._
Varices are caused by periodical rests or stoppages in the growth of the
shell, when the edge of the aperture thickens, and renders the shell as
complete as when full grown. Again, after an interval, another check takes
place, and another thickened edge is formed, and so on in succession, until
the animal arrives at maturity, and the shell is full-grown. The thickened
edges successively forming the aperture, remain visible on the outside,
through all the subsequent stages. When these rests take place at frequent
periods, the varices will of course be numerous as in Harpa and Scalaria.
They occur at regular or irregular distances, varying in shape and other
characters. When the varices occur at regular intervals, and form a
connected ridge from whorl to whorl up the spire, they are said to be
_continuous_, as in Ranella; when on the contrary, the varix on one whorl
does not come in contact with that on the other, they are described as
_discontinuous_. In order to distinguish a regular varix from a mere
external ridge, it will be sufficient to notice whether its edge overlaps
the external surface, and whether it resembles the open edge of the
aperture, which true varices do.
[Illustration: Fig. 40, _numerous_; 41, _few, continuous_; 42, _few,
discontinuous_.]
_Aperture._
The aperture or opening of the spiral tube, was formerly described as the
mouth; a term calculated to convey an erroneous impression, when applied to
a part of the shell which has no correspondence with the mouth of the
animal. The word _aperture_ is used by modern writers in a general sense,
including the cavity, its edge, and the canals. The cavity itself is
distinguished in various shells as to its shape, which depends much upon
the degree of modification produced by the last whorl. In some cases, as in
Cyclostoma, where the aperture stands apart from the last whorl, the shape
is round, or nearly so. The Scalaria presents a good example of this. In
others, where the inner edge or lip, wrapping over the body whorl is nearly
straight, the aperture is _semi-lunar_, or half-moon shaped: this is
remarkable in the "_Neritacea_" of Lamarck, named, on that account,
"_hemi-cyclostomata_" by De Blainville. In a great number of instances, the
lower part of the body whorl enters obliquely into the upper part of the
aperture, the result being a _pyriform_, or pear-shaped opening. The
aperture is described as _long_ when it is largest in the direction of the
axis, and _wide_, in the contrary case. The _anterior_ is the part at the
greatest distance from the apex, and the body whorl; the _posterior_, the
part nearest to the apex. Thus some apertures are described as _posteriorly
contracted_ and _anteriorly widened_, or the reverse. A _linear_ aperture
is one contracted in its whole length, as in Cypræa. When the whorls are
angulated, a _trigonal_ aperture is the result, as in many species of
Trochus. Some are _transversely oval_, that is in an opposite direction to
the axis, and others _longitudinally oval_. When the whorls are formed with
two outer angles, a somewhat quadrated aperture is formed. There are other
variations too numerous to mention.
_Apertures._
[Illustration: Fig. 43, Helicina, _semilunar_; 44, Pirena, _pyriform_; 45,
Cypræa, _linear_; 46, Trochus, _trigonal_; 47, Cyclostoma, _rounded_; 48,
Chilina, _posteriorly contracted_; 49, Stomatia, _transversely oval_; 50,
Murex, _longitudinally oval_.]
The entire edge of the aperture described generally, is named the
Peritrême, but this term can only be conveniently applied in cases where,
in some at least of its characters, it is the same all round, so that one
descriptive term is applicable to the whole. As, however, this is of rare
occurrence, it is found convenient in descriptions to separate the rim from
the outer lip. In a great number of instances, this is done naturally, by a
canal, or notch at the anterior or lower extremity, and by the posterior
union of that part which overlays the body whorl with the other portion. At
these two points the outer and inner lips separate from each other: we
therefore describe the
_Canals of the Aperture._
When there is neither notch nor canal, anteriorly or posteriorly,
interrupting the edge of the aperture, it is described as entire. When
there is a notch or sinus at the anterior extremity, it is said to be
_emarginated_. When the edge of this notch is expanded, and drawn out in
the form of a beak, it is said to be _canaliferous_, or to have a _canal_.
When, in addition to this, the lips are thickened and contracted
posteriorly near their junction, and drawn out so as to form a groove, it
is said to be _bi-canaliculated_, or to have two canals. The _anterior
canal_ is said to be long or short, according to the proportion which it
may bear to the rest of the shell. Thus the canal of Ranella ranina (fig.
393 in the plates), may be described as _short_; while that of Murex
haustellum, (fig. 396, pl.) is _long_. When it is wide near the aperture,
and becomes gradually contracted towards its termination, it is said to be
_tapering_, as in Pyrula (fig. 388, pl.); when the termination is sudden,
it is described as _truncated_. If, on placing the shell upon a plane, with
the aperture downwards, the canal is seen to rise upwards, it is
_recurved_. In Buccinum and Nassa it is turned suddenly over the back, and
forms a short, curved elevation; it is then described as _recurved_ and
_varicose_. If the edges meet, so as to form a tube, it is said to be
closed, as in some species of Murex and Typhis. The posterior canal is, in
some cases, _free_, or standing out from the spire, as in some species of
Ranellæ; while in others it is _decumbent_, running up the sides of the
spire, as in Rostellaria (fig. 402, pl.).
_Canals._
[Illustration: Fig. 51, Fasciolaria, _truncated_; 52, Nassa, _recurved_,
_varicose_; 53, Cerithium, _recurved_; 54, Typhis, _closed_.]
_Lips, or edges of the Aperture._
The part of the edge of the aperture next to the body whorl is named the
_inner_, or _columellar_ lip. Posteriorly it commences at the point of
union with the outer lip, where that touches the body whorl, the junction
being generally marked by an angle, and sometimes by a canal. Anteriorly it
terminates where there is generally seen a notch or canal, or sudden angle,
from which the outer lip proceeds. The part which setting out from the body
whorl, and proceeds outwards at a distance from the axis, till it reaches
the anterior canal or notch (or its place in case of absence) is named the
_outer lip_. In many cases the edges are united in such a manner, that it
is difficult to distinguish where the inner lip terminates, and the outer
lip commences: when this is the case, it is usual to describe the margin or
peritrême, as a whole, without distinguishing the parts. The _outer_ lip,
sometimes called the right lip, or _labrum_ of continental writers, is
sometimes acute, not being of thicker substance than the remainder of the
shell. In other cases it is _obtuse_, or thickened and rounded at the edge.
When thickened and turned backwards it is described as _reflected_; when,
on the other hand, it is turned inwards towards the axis, as in the
Cyprædæ, it is _inflected_, or involute. When it is _toothed_, a
distinction must be observed as to whether the dentations are external or
internal. If the teeth are small and numerous, it is _denticulated_; if
larger, it is _dentated_; when expanded into a kind of wing, as in some
species of Strombus and Rostellaria, it is described as _alated_; and a
family in Lamarck's system is named "Alatæ," from this very circumstance.
In some of those which are expanded, the expansion is divided into
separate, attenuated portions, they are then said to be digitated.
_Outer Lips._
[Illustration: Fig. 55, Helix, _reflected_; 56, Cypræa, _involute_,
_denticulated_; 57, Sera, _alated_; 58, Murex, _digitated_; 59,
Rostellaria, _dentated_.]
The _inner_ lip, sometimes named the _columellar_ lip, or "_labium_," is
subject to similar variations as to thickness, dentition, &c. That portion
of it which lies upon the body-whorl is frequently distinguished from that
which intervenes between it and the notch or canal. De Blainville,
restricting the term _lip_ "bord gauche" to the former portion, applies the
term "columella" to the latter; and in some instances this may be the more
convenient method of describing the part in question. The columellar lip is
sometimes _detached_ entirely from the body of the shell, as in Murex
haustellum; in others it is _decumbent_, or lying over the last whorl,
although quite distinct, and in some cases, _thickened_, _callous_, or
_tumid_.
At the lower or anterior part, sometimes called the _columella_, there are
in many instances flattened, laminated folds; these are particularly
conspicuous in the genera Cymba and Melo, where, being obliquely spiral and
laminar, they are extremely elegant, presenting to the eye graduated
repetitions of the line of beauty. In other cases, as in the Turbinellæ,
they are more horizontal and thickened.
In some cases the columella is swelled into a varicose mass; as in Oliva,
Ancillaria, &c.; it is then described as _tumid_ or varicose. It is
sometimes _tortuous_, and sometimes straight, and is susceptible of many
variations, too minute and particular to be described in this part of the
work.
COLUMELLAR LIPS.
[Illustration: Fig. 60, Melo, _obliquely plaited_; 61, Turbinellus,
_horizontally plaited_; 62, Ancillaria, _varicose_, _tortuous_; 63, Natica,
_straight_.]
OPERCULUM.
The aperture of many species of shells remains constantly open; but in a
great number of species it is occasionally closed, whenever the animal is
retracted within the shell, by a calcareous or horny piece called the
operculum. This must be distinguished in the first instance from another
kind of calcareous covering, which in some univalve shells serves to close
the aperture during a certain portion of the year. This piece, named the
_epiphragm_, although hardened and shelly in appearance, is no real part of
the animal or of the shell; being only a secretion temporarily hardened,
for the purpose of defending the animal from external influences during the
_hibernating_ or _torpid_ season, to be dissolved when that season is at an
end. On examining this piece, it will be observed that it is not formed in
regular layers like the rest of the shell; while the true operculum is of a
regularly laminated structure, having a nucleus and receiving obliquely
deposited additions, either in a lateral spiral or concentric direction. It
is attached to the posterior part of the foot on the upper surface; and
when the animal retires within its shell, that part of the foot enters
last, drawing the operculum after it, and thus closing the aperture.
The opercula of various shells differ in the first place as to their
chemical composition. They are _calcareous_ when formed principally of
calcareous matter, like the rest of the shell, as in Neritina, Nerita, and
some others. They are _corneo-calcareous_, when upon an internal lamina of
horny consistency there is a thickened layer of shelly matter. This is the
case with shells of the genus Turbo and Phasianella, which are on this
account distinguished from those of the genus Trochus; the opercula of the
latter being horny or _corneus_.
The size of the operculum is distinguished by comparison with the rest of
the shell; thus, those of Strombus, Cassis, &c. are small; while those of
Cyclostoma and others are large, filling up the cavity at its outer edge.
The direction in which the successive layers are deposited, forms another
ground of distinction. The disc is formed in some instances of a series of
whorls, the apex or nucleus being more or less central; if these whorls are
numerous, the operculum is described as _multispiral_, as in shells of the
genus Trochus; if few, as in Cyclostoma, it is _paucispiral_. In some
instances the flattened spire consists of but one whorl, it is then
_unispiral_; and when scarcely one turn is completed, it is described as
_subspiral_. When the layers are applied upon each other in such a manner
that the nucleus is central, and the edges of the subsequent layers are
extended beyond each other all around, so as to form rims, the operculum is
described as _concentric_; if the nucleus is lateral, or at one side
without being spiral, it is _lammellated_; and when it forms a terminal
point, enlarging in the form of a finger-nail or claw, it is
_unguiculated_. In the operculum of a Neritina, there is a lateral process,
by means of which it is locked into the columella, the term _articulated_
is then applied. In that of Navicella, there is also a process which
appears to radiate from the nucleus, it has therefore been described as a
_radiated_ operculum.
_Opercula of Spiral Univalves._
[Illustration: Fig. 64, _multispiral_; 65, _paucispiral_; 66, _concentric_;
67, _articulated_; 68, _radiated_; 69, _lammellated_; 70, _unguiculated_.]
BIVALVE SHELLS.
Bivalve shells, named Conchacea by Lamarck, are those which consist of two
principal portions united to and folded upon each other by means of a
hinge. The pieces united compose the shell, while each piece separately is
called a valve. Considering the bivalve shell as a whole, it will be
necessary, in the first instance, to describe the position in which it is
to be observed, in order to give the student a clearly defined notion of
what is intended, when terms expressive of height, depth, length, breadth,
&c. are used, as well as when the anterior and posterior extremities are
spoken of. For this purpose, we must suppose the animal to be living and
creeping along the bed of the sea by means of its foot; where this foot
protrudes, will be the _ventral margin_, and the opposite part the _dorsal
margin_ of the shell. There will then be a valve on each side; and if we
further suppose the animal to be walking forward with its back to the
observer, the _right_ and _left_ valves will correspond with his right and
left sides.
_Measurements._
[Illustration]
The _length_ will be measured from _anterior_ (_a_) to _posterior_ (_p_),
and the lines of growth running in the same direction will consequently be
_longitudinal_ or _concentric_; _transverse_ of some authors. The height
will be from the umbones (_u_), to the _ventral margin_, and lines or bands
in that direction are termed _radiating_; longitudinal, according to some
authors.
The points from which the growth of the shell commences, are called the
_umbones_; these usually turn towards the anterior part of the shell: if
this circumstance fails to point out the anterior, it may in many cases be
distinguished by the muscular impressions of the mantle. If this has a
sinus or winding, it is always near the posterior muscular impression; and
in all cases where there is an external ligament, it is on the posterior
side.
There is sometimes an impression near the front of the umbones, which forms
a semicircle on each valve; the space within this semicircle is called the
_lunule_ (wood-cut, fig. 71 and 72, _l. l. l._); a corresponding
depression, when it exists on the posterior margin near the umbones, is
named the escutcheon.
_Hinge._
[Illustration: Fig. 73, _l t_, lateral teeth; _c t_, cardinal teeth; _c_,
cartilage under the ligament; _l_, ligament; _f_, fulcrum of the ligament.]
The _hinge_ of the shell is on the _dorsal_ margin, and is composed of the
various apparatus by which the two valves act upon each other in opening
and shutting. It consists of a _ligament_, which is placed on the dorsal
margin, just at the back of the umbones, and unites the two valves
together; the _cartilage_ or thick gristly elastic substance, sometimes
found close to the _ligament_, to which it then forms an inner coating, and
sometimes received into a pit within the shell. It serves the purpose of
keeping the shell open when not forcibly closed by the adductor muscles. An
inner layer of shelly matter upon which are placed teeth, and pits to
receive them on the two valves reciprocally. Each of these it will be
necessary to treat of more at large; observing, at the same time, that in
some species of Bivalves these parts may be wholly or partially wanting.
Thus we meet with some shells, such as the Muscle, without teeth; and there
is the group containing Pholas, &c. the hinge of which is destitute of
teeth and ligament, the two valves being kept together by loose cartilages,
and by the contracted space in which they are confined.
_Ligament and Ligamentary Cartilage of the Hinge._
These two distinct substances have been described by many writers as
though, composing the same mass, they were of one substance; but the
difference may very easily be explained. The _true ligament_ is external,
being fixed on the edge of one valve behind the umbones, and passing over
in an arch to the corresponding edge of the other, very correctly retaining
the name of _ligament_, because it serves the purpose of binding the two
together. The thick, elastic substance, which Mr. Gray names the
_cartilage_, is sometimes found in connexion with the ligament, so as to
form one mass with it, although it is always separable and placed within
it: it is sometimes placed quite within the shell, and separated from the
ligament, in a pit or hollow formed for its reception in the hinge lamina,
near the centre. It is found in both valves, and being elastic, the portion
in one valve presses against that in the other, so as to keep the valves
apart, unless voluntarily closed by the adductor muscles of the animal. The
ligament is sometimes spread over an external area, as in Arca, while the
cartilage is placed in several grooves of the same area, beneath the outer
covering.
_Hinge lamina, Teeth and Fulcrum of the Ligament._
In a great variety of cases, there is a thickening of the substance of the
shell within, under the dorsal margin; this is named the hinge lamina. It
is sometimes merely callous; but in many cases it has raised _teeth_ in
both valves, those in one valve entering into corresponding cavities in the
other. Those which are placed immediately below the umbones, and seem to
take their rise from beneath them, are called _cardinal teeth_; those at a
distance from the umbones, which are seen to lie along the upper margin of
the shell are named _lateral teeth_.
When the cardinal teeth terminate in a double point, which is not
unfrequently the case, they are said to be _bifid_. The lateral teeth, in
various species, are distinguished as terminating _near_ to, or at a
_distance_ from the umbones. In the Nuculæ and Arcæ there is a row of teeth
placed across the hinge lamina. In which case, the lateral cannot be
distinguished from the cardinal teeth.
_Muscular Impression._
[Illustration: Fig. 74. _a, anterior; p, posterior; m i, muscular
impressions._]
Lamarck divides the Bivalve shells into two general orders; the first is
named "Dimyaria," having two adductor muscles; and the second,
"Monomyaria," having but one. These adductor muscles are used for the
purpose of drawing the valves together, being composed of contractile
fibrous gristle, fastened firmly to the inner surface of each valve. The
place where they are thus fixed may be seen when the animal is removed, by
depressed areas, which are generally pretty well defined, and are named
_muscular impressions_. Where there is but one adductor muscle, there will
be but one of these impressions near the centre of each valve, but in the
Dimyaria, where there are two, the impressions are seen, one on the
anterior, and one on the posterior of each valve, just below the _hinge_
lamina. They are sometimes _complex_, that is composed of several portions
in a group; but in general, they are simple and well defined.
They are also described as large or small, in proportion to the size of the
shell; regular or irregular in form. The animal is attached to the inner
surface by the fibrous portions of the mantle, which creates a linear
impression or _cicatrix_, commonly described as the _palleal impression_,
or muscular impression of the mantle. It runs near the ventral margin from
one muscular impression to the other, sometimes in a smooth _continuous_
line or band, and sometimes in an interrupted series of small impressions.
Near the point of union with the posterior muscular impression, there is
sometimes a more or less considerable winding inwards towards the centre of
the shell, and back again towards the point of union. This is named the
_sinus_, and is distinguished as being _angular_ or _rounded_, large or
small, according to the species. When it enters towards the centre of the
shell in a tongue-shaped outline it is said to be _ligulate_. Where it
exists it affords a certain index to the posterior side of the shell; as it
is the region through which the excretory tubes pass.
_Umbones._
These are the prominent points of the dorsal edge, where the growth of the
shell commenced, and are called beaks, by some English writers. In some
instances they are close to each other; in others they are rendered distant
from each other by the intervention of areas in the hinge, as in Spondyli,
&c. In Pectunculus they are _straight_; in Venus _curved_ towards the
anterior margin; in Isocardia, _spiral_; in Chama, _decumbent_; in Diceras,
_free_. In shells subject to external corrosion, the process commences at
the umbones.
[Illustration: Fig. 75, _distant_; 76, _straight_; 77, _curved_; 78,
_spiral_; 79, _decumbent_; 80, _free_; 81, _close_.]
GENERAL CHARACTER OF BIVALVES.
When the _breadth_ is spoken of, the distance between the most convex parts
of both valves, when closed, is intended; but when an expression implying
_thickness_ is used, it refers to the substance of each valve: it is
important to bear this in mind, as many persons have been misled by
descriptions in which the distinction has not been attended to. Glycimeris
(fig. 67 in the plates) is a _thick_ shell, but Anatina (fig. 69 in the
plates) is a _broad_ one.
_Regularity._
A great number of Bivalves are extremely regular in their form. These are
generally locomotive, and consequently free from those obstructions in
growth occurring to stationary shells, which being confined in a particular
position, or to a particular spot, modify their shape according to the
substance with which they come in contact, and thus become irregular. This
is generally the case with shells which are attached to submarine
substances, such as Spondyli, Oysters, &c.; and the degree of irregularity
will depend upon the extent of surface involved in the attachment. In the
case of fixed shells, the attached valve is usually termed the under valve,
and the other which moves freely upon the hinge, is termed the upper valve.
_Form and Proportions._
Bivalves are said to be _equivalve_ when the two valves correspond in
extent, breadth, and thickness; and of course _inequivalve_ in the contrary
case. They are _equilateral_ when a line drawn from the umbones to the
ventral margin would divide the shell into two nearly equal parts; and of
course _inequilateral_ in the opposite case, which occurs in the great
majority of instances.
A Bivalve is said to be _compressed_, when the distance is small from the
most prominent part of one valve to that of the other. It is _cylindrical_
when lengthened, and more or less rounded in its breadth, as in Lithodomus
(fig. 161 in the plates). It is _cordiform_ when the shape presents a
resemblance to an imaginary heart, as in Cardium cardissa (fig. 122 in the
plates), and in the Isocardia (fig. 126 in the plates). It is _linguiform_
when it resembles a tongue in shape, as in Vulsella (fig. 185 in the
plates); _rostrated_ when it protrudes at either extremity, and terminates
in a kind of point, as in Sanguinolaria Diphos (fig. 99 in the plates);
_truncated_ when it ends in a square or angle, as if cut off; an example of
which may be seen in Solen (fig. 60 in the plates).
Other Bivalves are distinguished as being _auriculated_, having processes
flattened and expanded on either side of the umbones, as in Pecten (cut,
fig. 82). When there is one of these on each side of the umbones, it is
_bi-auriculated_; when only on one side, it is _uni-auriculated_. When the
expansion is very broad, as in Unio alatus (fig. 142 in the plates), and in
the Hammer Oyster (cut, fig. 83), the term _alated_ is used.
[Illustration: Fig. 82, _auriculated_; 83, _auriculated_, _alated_.]
With regard to these alated species of _Uniones_, it is necessary to
observe that they are also "_adnate_," as it is termed; the two valves
being joined to each other by the dorsal edge of the expanded parts, and
united so completely in substance with each other, that they cannot be
separated without being broken. Many other terms are used to express
difference in Bivalves, but being generally applicable to Univalves and
Multivalves, as well as to them, they will be found explained at large in
the alphabetical part of the work.
MULTIVALVE SHELLS.
These are of three different kinds; first, the "_dorsal_," as they are
termed by Linnæus, because they form a ridge in the back of the animal.
They are composed of eight pieces, or separate valves, placed in a
longitudinal series, being joined to each other by inserted lamina, and
named _Articulata_ by De Blainville, on that account. The genus Chiton is
the only example of this kind of Multivalves.
[Illustration: Fig. 84, 85, Chiton. _a_, anterior; _p_, posterior; _d_,
dorsal ridge; _l l_, lateral areas of the valves; _c c_, central areas; _i
i_, inserted lamina; _m_, margin.]
The second kind, M. De Blainville terms the _lateral_ bivalves, the pieces
being placed in pairs on each side of the animal; these compose the
"Pedunculated Cirripedes."
[Illustration: Fig. 86, Anatina.]
They differ considerably in the number and arrangement of the valves; the
small ones, which are found near the peduncle in some species, are
sometimes termed accessary valves; those which form the edge through which
the bunch of Cilia protrude, are termed _ventral_, and those on the
opposite side _dorsal_. The extremity joining the peduncle is the basal, or
anterior; and the upper extremity is the apsiral, or posterior. The
peduncle is the medium of attachment to submarine substances, to which this
well known tribe of shells adhere.
The third kind are termed _coronular_ by De Blainville, and compose the
order Sessile Cirripedes of Lamarck; they consist of a number of valves
placed against each other side by side in a circle, supported on a plate,
or tube, or cup, and closed by an operculum composed of two or more valves.
The _basal support_ is sometimes thick and flat, sometimes forming an
elongated tube, and sometimes hollowed out into a cup. In other species it
is altogether wanting. The operculum always consists of more than one
piece, generally of two pairs: they are either articulated to each other by
serrated edges, and placed against each other conically, as in Balanus, or
they lie flat in two pairs against each other. Through the ventral pair the
_cirrhi_ protrude.
The _parietal_ valves, composing the principal part of the shell, vary in
number, form and position. The _anterior_ valves are placed on the same
side with the cirrhi; the _posterior_, those on the opposite side; and
those which remain between on each side are the lateral valves. In many
cases, particularly in Balanus, each valve is separated into the
_prominent_ and _depressed_ areas, and the inserted lamina. In some
instances, the parietal portion is formed by a single rounded piece.
[Illustration]
In the accompanying cut (87), the prominent areas are distinguished by the
letters _pr_, and the depressed areas by _r_; the posterior valves of the
operculum are marked _p. o._, and the anterior _a. o._ The basal valve
(fig. 88) belongs to a Balanus. Fig. 89 is an Acasta, the cup-shaped base
of which is represented at fig. 90.
In the foregoing explanations we have omitted many of those general terms
which, relating to external characters, are applicable to shells in almost
every division of the system. It may be as well, however, to enumerate a
few of them in this place, although they are explained under their
respective letters in the alphabetical part of the work.
When bars or ribs, or large striæ are crossed by others radiating from the
umbones, shells are said to be _cancellated_, as represented in cut, fig.
91. When there is a series of nodules or spines on the upper part of the
whorls, they are _coronated_, as shewn in cut, fig. 92. When a series of
projecting parts overlay each other, in the manner of tiles, as in the cut,
fig. 93, the word _imbricated_ is applied. When marked by a regular series
of ridges, radiating from the apex, they are _pectinated_; the species of
Chiton, a single valve of which is represented in cut, fig. 94, has
received the specific name of _pectinatus_, in consequence of this
character. Shells are said to be _plicated_ when characterized by angular
bendings or foldings in their surface, as shewn in cut, fig. 95. A strong
instance of this is seen in the Ostræa Crista-Galli. When the margin of any
shell has a series of minute notches, resembling the teeth of a saw, it is
said to be _serrated_; when covered with raised points or spines it is
_aculeated_; and when striated in both directions, it is _decussated_; when
covered with a number of raised rounded points, it is _granulated_; and
having a series of these points placed in a row, near or upon the edge, it
is _denticulated_, as already explained in reference to the outer lips of
Spiral Univalves. When the external surface is rendered uneven by raised
knobs, it is said to be _tuberculated_; and if rendered rough and prickly
by sharp points it is _muricated_, as in the cut, fig. 97. The term
_reticulated_ is applied to fine raised lines, crossing each other, and
resembling fine net-work.
[Illustration: External surface. Fig. 91, _cancellated_; 92, _coronated_;
93, _imbricated_; 94, _pectinated_; 95, _plicated_; 96, _decussated_; 97,
_muricated_; 98, _foliated_.]
By the foregoing general observations and explanations, it is trusted that
the reader will be prepared for the following exposition of the general
arrangement of Lamarck, and the principles upon which it is founded.
* * * * *
GENERAL ARRANGEMENT
ACCORDING TO LAMARCK.
In Lamarck's "Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertebres," he divides
the invertebrata into classes, the 9th, 10th, and 11th of which include
animals possessed of shells properly so called. These are the ANNELIDES,
the CIRRIPEDES, the CONCHIFERA, and the MOLLUSCA.
The class ANNELIDES constitutes the 9th, and is divided into three orders,
namely, the "Apodes," "Antennees," and "Sedentaires"; the last of which,
_Sedentaria_, alone contains testaceous animals. This order includes
tubular shells, which, with the exception of Dentalium, are irregularly
twisted, and attached to each other, or to extraneous substances. The first
family _Dorsalia_, contains the genus Siliquaria (plates, fig. 1), known
from the Serpulæ, by the slit which passes through the whole length of the
shell on the upper surface of the tube. The second family, _Maldania_, has
the genus Dentalium (plates, fig. 2), a species of which are commonly known
by the name of "tooth shells"; these are regularly formed, curved conical
tubes, open at both extremities. The third family, _Serpulacea_, includes
the genera Serpula, Spirorbis, Galeolaria, Vermilia, Spiroglyphus, and
Magilus. The only shell that a learner would be likely to place among these
incorrectly, according to the system, is the Vermetus (plates, fig. 345),
which being regularly spiral at the apicial extremity, has been placed
among the Mollusca; to which situation the whole of the shells under
consideration have a better title than is generally supposed. It should be
mentioned that the Serpulacea are provided with opercula.
Class CIRRIPEDES.
This class constitutes the tenth of invertebrated animals, and receives its
name from the jointed and ciliated branchia which protrude between the
opercular valves. They are Multivalve shells, and were all included in the
single genus Lepas in the system of Linnæus, and are commonly known by the
name "Barnacles." Lamarck has, however, divided them into two distinct
orders. First, the _Sessile_ Cirripedes or those which being composed of
several valves, joined to each other, side by side in a circle, are
attached to each other, or to submarine bodies by the basal portion of
their own substance, and form a hollow, irregular cone, with the aperture
above closed by an operculum consisting of two or more valves. Secondly,
the _Pedunculated Cirripedes_, which are composed of valves placed in pairs
against each other, so as to form a flattened disc attached by means of a
tendinous tube called a peduncle. The first of these orders includes the
genera Tubicinella, Coronula, Platylepas, Clitia, Conia, Elmineus,
Catophragmus, Octomeris, Balanus, Creusia, Nobia, Savignium, Pyrgoma, Adna,
Megatréma. The second contains the genera Pentelasmis, Scalpellum, Smilium,
Pollicipes, Bisnæus, Lithotrya, Ibla, Octolasmis, Cineras, Otion.
Conchological writers are not agreed as to the propriety of allowing the
above to enter into the present science.
Class CONCHIFERA.
The shell of a conchiferous animal is always bivalve, composed of two
pieces placed opposite to each other, joined at the dorsal margins by an
elastic hinge. All true bivalve shells belong to animals of this class; and
the correspondence between the shell and the animal is so true that on
examining an empty bivalve shell we can not only determine that its
inhabitant belonged to this class, but also decide on the particular order
and family in which it should be placed, without seeing the soft parts.
The first general division of Conchifera is that which results from
observing the muscular impressions, or marks made on the inner surface of
the valve by the insertion of the adductor muscles. All Conchifera are
divided into two orders, as follows:
First Order, _Conchifera Dimyaria_.
Having two adductor muscles, and consequently two impressions in each
valve. They are separated into the following families:
1. _Tubicolæ_ (plates, fig. 44 to 54), having shelly tubes besides the
valves. This family contains the genera Aspergillum, Clavagella,
Teredina, Teredo, Xylophaga, Fistulana, and Gastrochæna.
2. _Pholadaria_ (plates, fig. 55 to 59), cylindrical, living in holes
in rocks pierced by the animals. Lamarck places in this family the
genera Pholas and Gastrochæna, the last of which belongs more properly
to the family Tubicolæ, as placed above.
3. _Solenacea_ (plates, fig. 60 to 68), longitudinally (transversely,
Lam.) elongated, open at the anterior and posterior extremities. This
family contains the genera Solen, Pholadomya, Panopæa, Glycimeris
(Solecurtus) and Solenimya.
4. _Myaria_ (plates, fig. 69 to 76), ligament internal. A spoon-shaped
ligamentary pit in one or both valves. Shell generally gaping at one or
both extremities. This family includes the genera Anatina, Mya,
Anatinella, Lyonsia, Myochama, Cleidotherus.
5. _Mactracea_ (plates, fig. 77 to 88), the cartilage placed in a
trigonal pit, with a small external ligament. The genera Lutraria,
Mactra, Crassatella, Erycina, Ungulina, Amphidesma, and Solenimya
belong to this family, the last of which ought to have been placed
among the Solenacea, as above.
6. _Corbulacea_ (plates, fig. 89, 90), inequivalve, with an internal
ligament resembling the Mactracea, but differing in having one valve
deeper than the other, although regular shells. This small family
contains only the genera Corbula and Pandora.
7. _Lithophagidæ_ (plates, fig. 91 to 97), irregular, terebrating,
living in holes of rocks. The genera are Saxicava, Petricola, and
Venerirupis.
8. _Nymphacea_ (plates, fig. 98 to 110), ligament external, generally
placed upon a prominent fulcrum, which passes from the inside to the
outside of the hinge; valves generally gaping at the extremities. This
family contains the genera Sanguinolaria, Psammobia, Psammotæa,
Tellinides, Corbis, Lucina, Donax, Capsa, and Crassina.
9. _Conchacea_ (plates, fig. 111 to 121), regular, having several
cardinal teeth and sometimes lateral teeth. The Conchacea constitute
one of the most beautiful and numerous families of the class; they
present equivalve shells, which are always regular, unattached, and in
general closed, especially at the sides; they are always more or less
inequilateral. They are divided into the _fluviatile_ and _marine
Conchacea_, the first containing the genera Cyclas, Cyrena, and
Galathæa, found in rivers; and the second, Cyprina, Cytherea, Venus,
and Venericardia.
10. _Cardiacea_ (plates, fig. 122 to 130). This family, which resembles
the last in some general characters, are also regular and equivalve,
and are generally provided with radiating ribs, which are seldom seen
in the Conchacea. The genera enumerated in this family are Cardium,
Cardita, Cypricardia, Hiatella, and Isocardia.
11. _Arcacea_ (plates, fig. 131 to 138). These are known by having a
row of numerous small teeth on the cardinal hinge in each valve. The
genera included are, Cucullæa, Arca, Pectunculus, Nucula.
12. _Trigonacea_ (plates, fig. 139 and 140). It is doubtful whether
this family should remain distinct. As of the two genera placed in it,
the first, Trigonia, is thought by some naturalists to have strong
affinities with Nucula, in the family of Arcacea; and the latter,
Castalia, certainly belongs to the Nayades.
13. _Nayades_ (plates, fig. 141 to 152). These are fresh-water shells,
covered on the outside by a thick horny epidermis, and pearly within.
They include the genera Unio, Hyria, Anodon, Iridina.
14. _Chamacea_ (plates, fig. 153 to 155), inequivalve, irregular,
foliaceous, attached; containing the genera Diceras, Chama, and
Etheria.
Second Order, _Conchifera Monomyaria_.
Having one adductor muscle, and therefore only one impression in each
valve. They are separated into the following families:--
1. _Tridacnacea_ (plates, fig. 156 & 157), transverse, equivalve, with
an elongated muscular impression, near the centre of the ventral
margin; margin undulated at the termination of the radiated large ribs.
The genera Tridacna and Hippopus are included.
2. _Mytilacea_ (plates, fig. 158 to 162), generally regular, with the
hinge linear, without teeth, occupying the greater part of the dorsal
margin. This family includes the genera Modiola, Mytilus, Pinna.
3. _Malleacea_ (plates, fig. 163 to 170), shell generally thin,
inequivalve, irregular, foliaceous, with the hinge linear. This family
contains the genera Crenatula, Perna, Malleus, Avicula, Meleagrina.
4. _Pectinides_ (plates, fig. 171 to 178). The Pectinides are generally
regular or nearly so, with the shell solid; the greater part of them
are auriculated at the dorsal margin, and generally characterized by
ribs radiating from the umbones. The genera are Pedum, Lima,
Plagiostoma, Pecten, Plicatula, Spondylus, Podopsis.
5. _Ostracea_ (plates, fig. 180 to 192). The shells of this family are
irregular, generally attached and foliaceous. They compose the genera
Gryphæa, Ostræa, Vulsella, Placuna, Anomia.
6. _Rudistes_ (plates 193 to 200). This family is composed of a
particular association of shells, which appear on one side to be
connected with the Ostracea; and on the other to approach the
Brachiopoda. They differ from Ostracea in having no hinge or ligament,
and only resemble them in their irregularity and foliaceous structure.
The following six genera are placed by Lamarck in this
family:--Sphærulites, Radiolites, Calceola, Birostrites, Discina,
Crania. Of these, Calceola, Discina, and Crania are shewn to belong to
the Brachiopoda.
7. _Brachiopoda_ (plates, fig. 201 to 219). The shells of this family
are inequivalve, equilateral, and attached to marine bodies by a tendon
passing through one of the valves. The animals have, near their mouth,
two elongated, ciliated arms, which are spirally rolled when at rest.
The following genera are enumerated by Lamarck, Orbicula, Terebratula,
Lingula.
MOLLUSCA.
Lamarck applies, or rather restricts, this name to those invertebrated
animals, which while they are inarticulate in all their parts, have the
head sufficiently advanced at the anterior part of the body to be
distinguished; which is not the case with the Conchifera. All the shells
are univalve, and are divided into six orders, namely, the PTEROPODA, which
have wing-shaped natatory organs or fins, and have _light_, _thin
transparent_, _nearly symmetrical_ shells; the GASTEROPODA, with the foot
not distinguishable from the rest of the body, have _patelliform_, _open_,
and _scarcely spiral_ shells; the TRACHELIPODA with the foot distinct and
attached to the neck of the animal, have _spiral_, _non-symmetrical_
shells. The CEPHALOPODA, with arms covered by suckers surrounding the head
of the animal, have generally _symmetrical convolute_ shells. The
Cephalopoda are divided into _C. polythalamia_, which have the internal
cavity divided into chambers by septa, as in the Nautilus; and the _C.
Monothalamia_, which are not so divided, as the Argonauta. The order
_Heteropoda_ contains the genus Carinaria alone.
Order _Pteropoda_.
This order, containing hyaline, symmetrical, non-spiral shells, as above
described, is not divided into families, but contains the following genera,
Hyalæa, Cleodora, Limacina, Cymbulia; the first of which, although composed
of a single piece, resembles a bivalve so nearly, that Linnæus actually
placed it in his genus Anomia.
Order _Gasteropoda_.
With the exception of the genus Bulla and Vitrina, the last of which forms
a passage into the next order, the shells contained in this order are
_patelliform_, _open_, _and scarcely spiral_. They are divided into the
following families:--
1. _Phyllidiana_ (plates, fig. 227 to 231), containing the genera
Chiton, Chitonellus, and Patella, the two former of which present the
only exception to the statement above made, that all the shells of
Mollusca were univalve.
2. _Semiphyllidiana_ (plates, fig. 232 and 233). Of the two genera
contained in this family, Pleurobranchus is broad, thin, and slightly
spiral at the apex, and Umbrella is flat, circular, with a central
apex.
3. _Calyptracea_ (plates, fig. 234 to 246). The patelliform shells of
this family, although united by no other general characters, are
brought together by the characters of the animals which produce them.
The genera are Parmophorus, Emarginula, Siphonaria, Fissurella,
Pileopsis, Calyptræa, Crepidula, Ancylus.
4. _Bulleana_ (plates, fig. 247 to 253), contains the genera Bulla and
Bullæa.
5. _Aplysiacea_ (plates, fig. 254 and 255). The genera Aplysia and
Dolabella are both expanded, somewhat flattened shells, with the apex
placed at one extremity, and slightly spiral.
6. _Limacinea_ (fig. 256 to 263). Many of the animals (slugs) are
without shells; some, as the Limax, or common garden slug, have a
slightly developed calcareous piece, hidden beneath the mantle, and of
others the shells are scarcely spiral. The genera included in this
family are, Parmacella, Limax, Testacella, Vitrina.
Order _Trachelipoda_.
All the remaining spiral non-symmetrical shells are arranged in this order,
which is divided into the following families:--
1. _Colimacea_ (plates, fig. 264 to 307). With the exception of the few
contained in the family of Limacina, which ought not to be separated
from this order, the whole of the land-shells are contained in this
family, and although it is difficult to notice any one character by
which terrestrial shells may be distinguished from others, few at all
conversant with the subject are liable to mistake them. There is a
general lightness and simplicity of form, which, though not clearly
definable, is generally understood. The following distribution of
genera by Lamarck, is generally acknowledged to require numerous
modifications; the genera are Helix, Carocolla, Anostoma, Helicina,
Pupa, Clausilia, Bulinus, Achatina, Succinea, Auricula, Cyclostoma.
2. _Lymneana_ (plates, fig. 308 to 312). The shells of this family are
found in fresh water, wells, ditches, and ponds. They are of a light
horny structure, and simple form. The genera Planorbis, Physa, and
Lymnea are placed in this family by Lamarck.
3. _Melaniana_ (plates, fig. 313 to 317). These are also found in fresh
water, principally in rivers; they are thicker than those of the last
family; and the greater part of them have elevated spires composed of
numerous whorls. This family contains the genera Melania, Melanopsis,
Pirena.
4. _Peristomata_ (plates, fig. 318 to 322). These are also fresh-water
shells, having opercula, and covered by a smooth green, or
greenish-brown epidermis. They differ from the last family in having
the peritreme entire. The genera are Valvata, Paludina, and Ampullaria.
5. _Neritacea_ (plates, fig. 323 to 333). The peculiarity of the shells
of this family consists in the inner lip being flattened and rather
straight at the inner edge. The genera are Navicella, Neritina, Nerita,
Natica, and Janthina, the last of which forms an exception to the
general character, and is placed by De Blainville in a family by
itself.
6. _Macrostomata_ (plates, fig. 334 to 341), so named, on account of
the large open aperture which they present in comparison to the spire.
The shells of this family, which contains the genera Stomatia,
Stomatella, and Haliotis, are pearly within.
7. _Plicacea_ (plates, fig. 342 to 344), contains the genera Tornatella
and Pyramidella.
8. _Scalariana_ (plates, fig. 345 to 352). The genera Vermetus,
Scalaria and Delphinula, seem to have been placed in this family by
Lamarck, on account of the whorls being distinct from each other.
9. _Turbinacea_ (plates, 353 to 371). The shells contained in this
family are all more or less globose, or angular, thickened and pearly
within. The following genera are included in this division by Lamarck,
Solarium, Rotella, Trochus, Monodonta, Turbo, Planaxis, Phasianella,
and Turritella.
10. _Canalifera_ (plates, fig. 372 to 401). The numerous genera of
which this family is formed, namely, Cerithium, Pleurotoma, Turbinella,
Cancellaria, Fasciolaria, Fusus, Pyrula, Ranella, Murex, Triton, are
distinguished by having at the anterior termination of the aperture, a
more or less elongated canal.
11. _Alatæ_ (plates, fig. 402 to 406). These are known by having the
outer lip more or less expanded and generally a posterior canal leaning
towards the spire. The genera are Rostellaria, Strombus, and
Pteroceras.
12. _Purpurifera_ (plates, fig. 407 to 429). In these, the canal, if
such it may be called, is extremely short, and turning abruptly
backwards, produces a kind of varix at the lower part of the whorl. The
genera enumerated in this family are Cassidaria, Cassis, Ricinula,
Purpura, Monoceras, Concholepas, Harpa, Dolium, Buccinum, Eburna,
Terebra.
13. _Columellata_ (plates, fig. 430 to 433). The shells of this family
are emarginated at the anterior extremity of the aperture, and the
inner lip is characterized by plates or folds, which, with the
exception of those on Columbella, are distinct. The genera are Mitra,
Voluta, Marginella, Volvaria, Columbella, the latter of which would be
better placed among the Purpurifera.
14. Convolutæ (plates, fig. 444 to 462). The well-known shells
contained in this family are distinguished for the small proportion of
the spire, if any, which remains uncovered by the last whorl. They
might be well divided into two groups, the first containing the genera
Ovulum and Cypræa, under the name of Cypræadæ, which are truly
convolute, having the spire entirely hidden; and the second containing
the genera Oliva. Ancillaria, and Conus.
Order _Polythalamous, or Chambered Cephalopoda._
The greater part of the shells belonging to this order are symmetrical, and
the internal cavity is divided into separate compartments, by plates called
_Septa_. It is divided into the following families:--
1. _Orthocerata_ (plates, fig. 463 to 470), containing the genera
Belemnites, Orthoceras, Nodosaria, Hippurites, and Conilites.
Hippurites certainly has no affinity with the Cephalopoda, but is
ascertained to be a bivalve shell, properly belonging to the family
Rudistes; the other genera are straight, elongated, and conical.
2. _Lituacea_ (plates, fig. 471), containing the genera Spirula,
Spirulina, and Lituola, the two latter of which are microscopic.
3. _Cristacea_, containing the microscopic genera Renulina, Orbiculina,
and Cristellaria.
4. _Spherulacea_, containing the microscopic genera Miliola, Gyrogona,
and Melonia.
5. _Radiolacea_, containing the microscopic genera Rotalites,
Lenticulina, Placentula.
6. _Nautilacea_ (plates, fig. 472 to 476). This family contains the
following genera--Discorbites, Siderolites, Polystomella, Vorticialis,
Nummulites, and Nautilus; the two latter of which alone are now
received in cabinets of shells, the four former belonging to that class
of microscopic fossils, now termed Foraminifera; the genus Nummulites,
although large, may probably belong to the same class, and perhaps it
would have been better to have included the remaining genus, Nautilus,
in the next family, from which it differs in having the septa which
divides the chambers simple at their edges.
7. _Ammonacea_ (plates, fig. 477 to 484). The edges of the septa of
these are all more or less sinuous and complicated. This family
contains the following genera, Ammonites, Ammonoceras, Baculites, and
Turrilites, the latter of which presents a singular anomaly in having
an oblique spire, like that of the order Trachelipoda, while it is
divided into chambers by sinuous septa.
Order _Monothalamous Cephalopoda_.
The only shells included in this order belong to the genera Argonauta
(plates, fig. 485), placed here by Lamarck, and Bellerophon (plates, fig.
486 and 487), a fossil genus subsequently added.
Order _Heteropoda_.
The singular and beautiful transparent shell contained in this order, under
the generic name Carinaria, forms a covering to a small portion of an
animal, equally remarkable and equally distinct from those of all other
orders.
The above arrangement, although far from perfect, and requiring numerous
modifications, is perhaps liable to as few objections as any other yet
proposed, and will certainly be more easily understood by those who have
not the opportunity of studying the soft parts of the animal.
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CONCHOLOGICAL MANUAL.
ABIDA. Leach. A genus founded on a species of PUPA, which has the
peristome slightly reflected, and numerous plaits in the aperture. Pupa
Juniperi, Pupa secale, Draparnaud. Great Britain; also Central and
Southern Europe.
ABRA. Leach. A genus composed of AMPHIDESMA tenue, prismaticum, and
other small thin species. British Channel and Mediterranean. _Fam._
Mactracea.
ABSIA. Leach. LITHOTRYA, Sowerby. _Fam._ Pedunculated Cirripedes.
ACAMAS. Montfort. BELEMNITES multiforatus, Blainville. A species
described as being perforated at the apex, by a stellated perforation.
No species of Belemnite at present known agreeing with the description;
it is supposed to have been taken from a broken specimen.
ACANTHOCHETES. A name given to a species of Chiton having bunches of
bristles at the sides of the valves.
ACARDO. Commerçon. Described from a pair of bony plates, taken from the
vertebræ of the Whale, and mistaken for a bivalve shell, destitute of a
hinge.
ACARDO. Swainson. A generic term applied by Swainson to the nearly
toothless species of Cardium, named C. edentulum by some authors; C.
Greenlandicum by others: fig. 123*.
ACASTA. Leach. _Order_, Sessile Cirripedes, _Lamarck_. BALANUS
_Montagui_, Sowerby. A small genus separated from Balanus, on account
of the cup-shaped base, but re-united by Sowerby, who shews, in his
Genera of Shells, that this is a merely accidental circumstance,
resulting from the situations in which the shells acquire their growth.
If, for instance, the Balanus be attached to a flat surface, in an open
situation, the base will be short and flat; if it be placed in a hollow
among other growing substances, it will be lengthened out in order that
the aperture of the shell may be even with the outer surface of the
surrounding mass; and if, as in the Acastæ, it be imbedded in a soft
and loose substance, the base, being left to itself, will take a
regular form. The Acastæ are found imbedded in sponges. _Ex._ Balanus
Montagui, of Great Britain, fig. 26. Also found in the Pacific ocean
and Philippines.
ACAVUS. Montfort. _Fam._ Limacinea, Blainville; Colimacea, Lamarck. A
division of the genus Helix, which may be considered synonymous with De
Ferrusac's sub-genus Helicogena. De Montfort has given H. Hæmastoma, as
an example. Fig. 267.
ACCESSARY VALVES, are the smaller or less important testaceous plates,
found on the hinge or dorsal margins of the true valves of some shells.
Example, the small plates on the hinge of Pholas, fig. 55, a. The
Pholades were placed by Linnæus and Bruguière among multivalve shells.
ACEPHALOPHORA. Blainville. (_a_, without; [Greek: kephale], head.) The
third class of the type Malacozoaria, Bl. including all bivalve shells,
the animals of which have no distinct head. This class corresponds with
the Conchifera of Lamarck, and is divided into the orders
Palliobranchiata, Rudistes, Lamellibranchiata, and Heterobranchiata,
the last of which contains no genera of testaceous Mollusca.
ACHATINA, Auctorum. _Fam._ Colimacea, Lam. (from Achates, an agate.)
_Fam._ Limacineæ, Bl. _Gen._ POLYPHEMUS, Montf.--_Descr._ Shell oval or
oblong, sub-turrited, light, thin; aperture oval, or pyriform; outer
lip sharp; columella smooth, tortuous, truncated, so as to form a notch
at its union with the outer lip.--_Obs._ It is from this notch that we
are enabled to distinguish Achatinæ from Bulini, which, moreover,
generally have a reflected outer lip. The Polyphemi of Montfort have an
undulation in the centre of the outer lip. Achatina Virginea, fig. 286.
Polyphemus Glans, fig. 288. These land shells are found in various
parts of the globe, but attain the greatest size and richness of
colouring in tropical climates; particularly in the West India Islands.
ACHATINELLA. SOW. A small group of shells, differing from Achatina in
having the inner edge of the outer lip thickened, and a slight groove
near the suture of the spire. Fig. 287. Sandwich Islands.
ACHELOIS. Montf. CONILITES Achelois. Knorr. Supp. T. 4, fig. 1.
ACICULA. Nilson. ACHATINA Acicula, Auct. CIONELLA, Jeffreys.
ACIONA. Leach. A genus described by De Blainville as consisting of
those species of Scalaria, the whorls of which do not touch each other.
If this account be correct, the genus proposed by Leach will include
the typical species of Scalaria, such as S. pretiosa.
ACME. Hartmann. A genus formed of TURBO fuscus, Walker. AURICULA
lineata, Drap. thus described--"Shell sub-cylindrical, with a blunt
tip; mouth ovate, simple, thin, slightly reflected over the pillar,
forming a slight perforation." The animal is said to resemble a
Cyclostoma, but has no operculum. Auricula lineata, Drap. Hist. 57, t.
3, fig. 20, 21. Southern Europe.
ACTEON. Montf. TORNATELLA, Lam.
ACTINOCAMAX. Stokes. A genus of Belemnitiform Fossils.
ACULEATED. Beset with sharp spines, as the margin of Chiton aculeatus,
fig. 227.
ACUMINATED. Terminating in a point, as the apex of Melania subulata,
fig. 313.
ACUS. Humphrey. TEREBRA of Lamarck.
ACUTE. Sharp, pointed, or sharp-edged.
ADDUCTOR MUSCLE. That which draws the two valves of a shell together,
and leaves a mark on the inner surface of each, called the MUSCULAR
IMPRESSION.
ADELOSINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
ADESMACEA. Bl. (_a_, without; [Greek: Desma], _desma_, ligament.) The
10th family of the order _Lamellibranchiata_, Bl. composed of Mollusca
which either bore tubular dwellings in rocks, wood, &c. or live in
testaceous tubes, their shells being consequently destitute of the
hinge ligament. The action of opening and shutting the valves being
limited to the narrow space to which they are confined, or else the
valves themselves being soldered into the tube, renders it unnecessary
for them to have a ligament to keep them in their places. The genera
Pholas, Teredina, Fistulana, and Septaria, belong to this family, which
corresponds in part with the families Tubicolaria and Pholadaria, of
Lamarck.
ADNA. Leach. One of the genera separated by Leach from _Pyrgoma_, and
characterized as consisting of an upper valve, supported on a
funnel-shaped base, which is not buried in the coral to which it is
attached, like Pyrgoma, but is seen externally. The operculum consists
of four valves. Adna, fig. 32. British Channel and Mediterranean.
ADNATE. A term applied by some authors to those shells belonging to the
family of Unionidæ, which have the valves joined together at the dorsal
margin, not like other bivalves, by a distinct ligament, but by the
substance of the shell itself, the valves appearing to grow together in
such a manner that they cannot be separated without one of them being
broken as will be seen in our figure of Dipsas plicatus, fig. 142. This
circumstance has been made the foundation of specific and even generic
distinctions, for which however it is insufficient, because many
species which when young are "_adnate_," when fully grown have their
valves joined together only by a ligament.
ÆGLIA. Say. A division of "Unionidæ," described as having the "shell
cuneate; bosses prominent; cardinal teeth much compressed, placed on
one side of the bosses. Æglia ovata, _Say_. Occidens _Lea_. Am. Tr.
iii. pl. 10." Lardner's Encyclopedia of Malacology.
AGANIDES. Montf. ORBULITES, Lam.
AGATHIRSES. Montf. SILIQUARIA, Auct.
AGINA ----? Belongs to SAXICAVA, Auct.
AKERA. Bl. The fourth family of the order Monopleurobranchiata, Bl.
containing the genera Bulla, Bullæa and Bellerophon, which, excepting
the last, constitutes the family Bullæana, Lam.
AKERA. A genus of extremely light, horny shells, resembling BULLA, from
which it differs, in the outer lip being separated from the body whorl,
which is elastic. _Ex._ Bulla fragilis, fig. 247.
ALÆA. Jeffrey's. A genus of minute land shells, resembling _Vertigo_,
but separated because they are dextral, while Vertigo is sinistral.
_Ex._ fig. 292. A. marginata, Pupa marginata, Drap. found in marshy
ground, roots of trees, moss, &c. Britain and Southern and Central
Europe.
ALASMODON. Say. A division of the genus UNIO, Auct. consisting of those
species which have cardinal, but no lateral teeth. _Ex._ A.
complanatus, fig. 141. North America and Europe.
ALATÆ. Lam. A family of the order Trachelipoda, Lam. containing the
following genera which may be thus distinguished.
1. ROSTELLARIA. Sinus close to the canal; including _Hippochrenes_,
and _Aporrhais_, Fig. 402 to 404.
2. STROMBUS. Sinus not close to the canal. Fig. 406.
3. PTEROCERAS. Same, digitated. Fig. 405.
ALATED. (From Ala, a wing.) Winged, a term applied to shells, when any
portion of them is spread out in any direction, as in fig. 403.
Hippochrenes, Montf. and fig. 147, Unio Alatus.
ALCADIA. Gray? (B. M. Syn. p. 134) Helicinæ which have a notch in the
aperture. A distinction which it is impossible to maintain. See
HELICINA.
ALATUS. Humphrey. STROMBUS, Auct.
ALECTRION. Montf. BUCCINUM Papillosum, Auct. fig. 422.
ALEPAS. Rang. A genus of Pedunculated Cirripedes without a shell.
ALVEOLINA. D'Orbigny. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
AMALTHUS. Montf. A. margaritaceus, Montf. is a species of AMMONITES
described as very flat, keeled, with an angular aperture. It belongs to
the family Ammonacea, Lam.
AMARULA ----? A genus composed of MELANIA Amarula, Auct. and similar
species.
AMBIGUÆ. Lam. The fourth section of the order Conchifera Dimyaria,
containing the family Chamacea, fig. 153 to 155.
AMICULA. A genus formed for the reception of CHITON amiculatus, Auct.
the valves of which are covered by an integument; so as to be
completely hidden externally.
AMIMONUS. Montf. CONILITES ungulatus, Knorr. A species distinguished
only by being slightly curved; _Fam._ Orthocerata, Lam.
AMMONACEA. Bl. The fourth family of the order Polythalamia, Bl. or
chambered shells, described as thin, chambered, discoidal, convolute,
symmetrical, generally compressed, with visible whorls. This last
character is used in De Blainville's System to distinguish the
Ammonacea from the Nautilacea. This family contains the genera
Discorbites, Scaphites, Ammonites, and Simplegas.
AMMONACEA. Lam. The seventh family of Polythalamous Cephalopoda, Lam.
containing the genera Ammonites, Orbulites, Ammonoceras, Turrilites and
Baculites, to which may be added Amalthus, Simplegas, Ellipsolites,
Nautellipsites, Hamites, Icthyosarcolites, and other genera mentioned
in the list of figures 477 to 484.
AMMONITES. Auct. (from Jupiter Ammon.) _Fam._ Ammonacea, Lam. and
Bl.--_Descr._ Symmetrical, convolute, discoidal, orbicular; chambers
numerous, divided by lobated, branched or sinuous septa, perforated by
a Siphon; aperture generally more or less modified by the last whorl.
The fossils of the secondary strata which compose this genus are
numerous and well known; they are vulgarly termed "snake-stones," and
some of them are extremely beautiful, particularly when the internal
structure is exhibited by a section. There is some difficulty in
distinguishing them from the Fossil Nautili, for although the whorls,
being visible and the Septa _sinuous_, may be taken as the
characteristics of the Ammonites, yet there are several species which
partake the characters of both. The Orbulites of Lamarck (fig. 479) for
instance, have sinuous septa like Ammonites, but the last whorl covers
those which precede it as in Nautilus. Simplegas Montf. and Bl. (fig.
475) has the whorls visible externally and the septa simple. Ammonites
is figured in the plates (478).
AMMONOCERAS, or AMMONOCERATITES. Lam. (from _Ammon_ & [Greek: Keras],
ceras, horn.) The shells described under this Lamarckian genus present
an anomaly which is considered by Mr. G. B. Sowerby, sen., as merely
accidental. They resemble the Ammonites in internal structure, but
instead of being spirally convolute they are merely curved like a horn.
_Ex._ fig. 477, copied from De Blainville.
AMNICOLA. The name of a genus mentioned in the family of Melaniana in
the conchological part of the Synopsis of the British Museum, but
unexplained.
AMPHIBOLA ----? The same as AMPULLARIA, Auct.
AMPHIBULIMA. Lam. SUCCINEA Patula, Auct. (fig. 266.) was first
published in the Ann. du. Mus. D'Hist. Nat. under the name Amphibulima
cucullata. The generic name was afterwards abandoned by its author, and
the species stands in his system as Succinea cucullata. West Indies.
AMPHIDESMA. Lam. (from [Greek: Amphô], _ampho_, _ambo_, [Greek:
Desmos], _desmos_, _ligamentum_). _Fam._ Mactracea, Lam.--_Descr._
Equivalve, oval or rounded, sub-equilateral, sometimes rather gaping at
the sides, with slight posterior fold; hinge with one or two cardinal
teeth in each valve, and two elongated lateral teeth, distinct in one
valve, nearly obsolete in the other; ligament short, separated from the
cartilage, which is elongated and couched obliquely in an excavation of
the hinge.--_Obs._ In most bivalve shells, the cartilage and ligament
are united in one mass, or placed close to each other; the contrary in
this case gives rise to the name, which signifies _double ligament_.
This circumstance distinguishes the genus Amphidesma from Tellina,
which in other respects it greatly resembles. From Lutraria it may be
known by its distinct lateral teeth, and also by its valves being
nearly close all round, while the Lutrariæ gape anteriorly. The species
do not appear to be numerous, no fossil species are known. A.
_Reticulatum_, fig. 85. West India Islands, Brazil, Coast of Pacific,
&c.
AMPHIPEPLEA. Nilson. The type of this proposed genus is LIMNEA
glutinosa, Auct. Gray's edition of Turton, page 243, plate 9. fig. 103.
The shell is polished and the inner lip expanded.
AMPHISTEGINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
AMPLEXUS. J. Sowerby. A. _Corralloides_, fig. 463. A singularly formed
fossil, described as nearly cylindrical, divided into chambers by
numerous transverse septa, which embrace each other with reflected
margins. It occurs in the Dublin limestone, and resembles a coral or
madrepore.
AMPLEXUS. A generic name proposed by Captain Brown for HELIX pulchella,
Drap. 112, tab. 107-134. Zurama, Leach.
AMPULLARIA. Auct. (_Ampulla_, a rounded vessel). _Fam._ "Peristomiens,"
Lam. Ellipsostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Spiral, globular, sometimes
discoidal, frequently umbilicated, covered with a rounded, horny
epidermis; spire short; whorls rapidly enlarging; aperture elliptical,
rounded anteriorly; peristome nearly or quite entire, thickened and
slightly reflected; operculum, testaceous, annular, with a subcentral
nucleus.--_Obs._ This genus of fresh-water shells of which a few fossil
species occur, is easily distinguished from other genera, by obvious
characters, particularly by a thick, horny, greenish-brown epidermis,
and the rotundity in form. One species, the A. Cornu-arietis which
forms the type of Lamarck's genus Planorbis, requires notice on account
of its flatness, but may be known by the aperture which in the
Ampullaria is longer than wide, and in Planorbis the contrary.
Lanistes, Montf. is described from a _reversed_ species of Ampullaria.
The Ampullaria is vulgarly called the Idol Shell, and is said to be
held in great veneration by the South American Savages. The animal has
a large bag, opening beneath, placed on the side of the respiratory
cavity. It is supposed that the animal has the power of filling this
bag with water, and that it is thus enabled to live a long time out of
water. They have been brought as far as from Egypt to Paris alive,
packed in saw-dust. _Ex._ fig. 318. East and West Indies, North Africa,
South America, &c.
AMPULLARINA ----? A genus formed for the reception of AMPULLARIA
avellana. Fig. 538. From Australia.
AMPULLINA ----? Part of the genus HELICINA, Auct.
ANALOGOUS. A term applied to certain species of fossil shells, which
present a certain degree of resemblance to recent species; but which
are not sufficiently similar to warrant the use of the term
'identical,' or any other implying that they are of the same species.
ANASTOMA or ANOSTOMA. Fischer. (from [Greek: Ana], _ana_, backwards;
[Greek: Stoma], _stoma_, mouth) _Fam._ Colimacea, Lamark. A genus of
land shells so named from the singular circumstance of the last whorl
taking a sudden turn and reflecting the aperture upwards, so as to
present it on the same plane with the spire; so that the animal walks
with the spire of the shell downwards resting on the foot. In other
respects, the two species of which this genus is composed, resemble
other Helices; and belong to De Ferrusac's division "Helicodonta."
_Tomogerus_ is De Montfort's name for this genus. _A. depressum_ is
represented in the plates figs. 271, 272. The nearest approach to this
genus will be found in the fossil shell named Strophostoma, by
Deshayes, which, however, has no teeth in the aperture and is provided
with an operculum like Cyclostoma. South America.
ANATIFER. Brug. ANATIFA, Lam. This name, which signifies Duckbearing,
has been given to the shells commonly called Barnacles, on account of
an absurd notion entertained among the ancients, that they inclose the
young of the Barnacle duck, in an embryo state. The beautiful bunch of
jointed arms, the ciliæ of which serve the purpose of agitating the
water, so as to draw in food by the current, were supposed to be the
feathers of the future bird. For a description of these shells, see
PENTELASMIS; and fig. 34.
ANATINA. Lam. (_That which belongs to a duck._) _Fam._ Myaria, Lam.
Pyloridea, Bl.--_Descr._ Thin, transparent, generally equivalve,
inequilateral, transverse, marine; hinge with a spoon-shaped process in
each valve, containing the cartilage.--_Obs._ Some species included in
the genus Anatina of authors, A. striata, for instance, have not the
spoon-shaped prominence, but in its place a small, testaceous, moving
appendage, connected with the interior of the hinge. These are now
separated, and form the genus LYONSIA. The genus Næara, Gray, is
composed of Anatina longirostrum, and similar species, which have
neither the bony appendage nor the spoon-shaped prominence. Mya is
distinguished from Anatina, by the thickness of the shell, and also by
having the prominence only in the hinge of one valve. Fig. 69. A.
rostrata. The Anatinæ are found in the East Indies and South Sea
Islands.
ANATINELLA. G. B. Sowerby. (Dimunition of _Anatina_). A genus so named
from its resemblance to Anatina, from which it differs in being
destitute of the internal appendage, and having no sinus in the palleal
impression. One species having been brought from Ceylon, received the
name of Anatinella Sibbaldii. Another has lately been found in the
Philippine Islands. Fig. 70.
ANATOMUS. Montf. Tom. 2, plate 279. A microscopic shell, appearing from
the figure to resemble SCISSURELLA.
ANAULAX. Brogn. ANCILLARIA, Auct.
ANCILLA. Lam. ANCILLARIA, Auct.
ANCILLARIA. Auct. ANCILLA, Lam. (_A handmaid._) _Fam._ convolutæ, Lam.
Angyostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Smooth, oblong, subcylindrical. Spire
short, sutures hidden by enamel. Aperture long, anteriorly emarginated
and somewhat effuse. Columella tortuous, oblique, tumid,
truncated.--_Obs._ The Ancillariæ are pretty shining shells, enveloped
almost entirely by the soft parts of the animal. They resemble Oliva,
from which they are distinguished by the suture of the spire being
filled up with shelly enamel, nearly covering the surface. The whorls
in Oliva being separated by a distinct canal. Ancillaria may be known
from Terebellum by the tumid varix at the base of the columella. The
well known Ivory shell, Eburna glabrata, _Lam._ belongs to this genus,
of which a few fossil species are found in the London clay, Calcaire
grossièr and green sand, Turin. The recent species are found in the
Islands of the Indian Ocean and Australian Seas. A. glabrata is
represented in the plates fig. 455; A. cinnamonea, fig. 456.
ANCULOSA. Say. _Fam._ Melaniana, Lam. Ellipsostomata, Bl. A genus
proposed to include some fresh-water shells resembling those of the
genus Melania, the difference between them being that the spire of
Anculosa is more depressed, and the anterior of the outer lip more
angulated than in Melania. On an examination of the different species,
however, it will be found that this is quite unsatisfactory, as a
generic distinction; because some of the species with short flattened
spires, have rounded, and others angulated apertures. North America. An
example of each is represented, fig. 314.
ANCYLUS. Geoffroy. _Fam._ Calyptracea, Lam. Otides, Bl.--_Descr._ Thin,
obliquely conical, patelliform; apex acute, turned sidewise and
backwards; aperture oval; margin simple.--_Obs._ Although the little
fresh-water shells described under this name, resemble those of the
genus Patella, the animals which produce them are nearly allied to the
Lymneanæ. And, it may also be observed, that the shells themselves
differ from Patella in not being quite symmetrical, having the apex
turned on one side. A. fluviatilis, fig. 246. Found in Great Britain,
and in Southern and Central Europe, West Indies, &c.
ANDROMEDES. Montf. VORTICIALIS, Lam. _Fam._ Nautilacea, Lam. A genus of
microscopic Foraminifera.
ANGULATED. (Angulatus.) Having an angle, or corner, as the anterior of
the aperture of Eulima, fig. 348; the posterior side of Castalia, fig.
140; the whorls of Carocolla, fig. 277.
ANGULITES. Montf. A genus composed of species of fossil NAUTILI,
described by De Blainville as not umbilicated, with a dorsal keel and
angular aperture. NAUTILUS triangularis Buffon.
ANGIOSTOMATA. Bl. The third family of Siphonobranchiata, Bl. described
as differing little from the family of Entomostomata, but having long,
narrow, straight apertures, and the columellar lips straight or nearly
so. Were it not for the admission of the genus Strombus into this
family, it would correspond with COLUMELLARIA and CONVOLUTÆ of Lamarck.
ANNELIDES. The ninth class of invertebrated animals, divided into three
orders, namely, A. Apodes, A. Antennés, and A. Sedentaires. The last
only contains families of testaceous Mollusca. The animals are
vermicular, some naked, others inhabiting shelly tubes. See SEDENTARY
ANNELIDES.
ANNULAR OPERCULUM is one which has the nucleus central, or nearly so,
the other layers surrounding it in flattened rings. The term concentric
is also applied. See Introduction.
ANNULATED. (Annus, a ring.) Composed of, or surrounded by rings, as in
the case of Tubicinella, fig. 14.
ANODON. Brug. _Fam._ Submytilacea, Bl. Nayades, Lam. A genus composed
of such species of NAYADES as are destitute of teeth on the hinge.
Europe, North America, &c. An example is given in A. Cataractus, fig.
152.
ANOMALINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
ANOMIA. _Fam._ Ostracea, Lam. and Bl.--_Descr._ Irregular, inequivalve,
sub-equilateral, foliaceous, pearly within; adhering to marine
substances by means of a bony appendage, which passes through a large
circular opening in the lower valve; muscular impression divided into
three irregular portions; hinge destitute of teeth with a short
cartilage.--_Obs._ The Linnæan genus included not only the shells to
which the description above given would apply, but also many other
genera, such as Crania, Orbicula, Terebratula, &c. which belong to the
Brachiopoda, and are perfectly distinct. The Anomiæ are found in
Europe, N. America, Moluccas, Philippine Islands, &c. Fig. 186, in the
plates, is a somewhat reduced representation of a full grown specimen
of A. Ephippium. Fig. 187, the hinge of the under valve, with the bony
process. Fig. 188, the hinge showing the opening through which it
passes.
ANOSTOMA. See ANASTOMA.
ANSATES. Klein. A genus formed of those species of Patella which have a
produced, recurved beak. Helcion, Montf. _Ex._ Patella pellucida, fig.
230.
ANSULUS or ANSYLUS. Mr. Gray conjectures that the name of the genus
Ancylus, should be so written.
ANTENOR. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
ANTERIOR. In Bivalves is the side on which the head, or part analogous
to the head of the animal lies; it is known in the shell by the
umbones, which if turned at all, are turned towards that part. If there
be a sinus in the impression of the mantle, it is always on the
posterior part of the shell. If the ligament be placed only on one side
of the umbones, it is only on the posterior side. The anterior of a
_spiral univalve_ is that part of the outer lip which is at the
greatest distance from the apex. Of a _symmetrical_ conical univalve
such as Patella, it is that part where the head of the animal lies,
indicated by the interruption of the muscular impression. Of
_cirripedes_, that part where the ciliæ protrude are anterior; of
_Brachiopoda_, that part which is farthest from the umbones and which
corresponds with the ventral margin in other Bivalves. The anterior of
_symmetrical, convolute univalves_, is the outer or dorsal part of the
aperture, or that part which is farthest from the spire. Lamarck and
other Conchological writers have occasioned much confusion by their
errors on this subject; describing the same part of a shell at one time
anterior, at another posterior; but generally the reverse of the above
arrangement, which is founded upon the natural position of the animal,
and generally adopted. The anterior will be indicated by the letter
_a_, in figs. 119, 421, 229, 34, 202.
ANTIGONA. Schum. A genus composed of VENUS cancellata, Lam. (fig. 119.)
and similar species.
ANTIQUATED. This word, signifying _out of date_, is occasionally used
to express that species of composition which constantly occurs in
shells, by each fresh deposit or layer of calcareous matter, forming a
new margin, which being replaced by its successor, is no longer used as
the margin, and is consequently said to be out of date.
APEX. This term does not apply to the natural position of a shell, but
is used in a mathematical sense, to indicate the nucleus or first
formed part; which may be considered as the point of the spiral cone.
From this point, the shell enlarging rapidly or slowly as it descends,
takes a spiral, arched, straight, oblique, convolute, or irregularly
spiral course. The apex will be indicated by the letter _a_, in fig.
282 and 466.
APERTURE or MOUTH. The entrance to the spiral cavity of univalve
shells. The parts of the aperture are separately described, as follows:
The inner lip or labium is that part which lies over the preceding
whorl of the shell. It terminates anteriorly, or towards the lower part
in what is termed the columella, so called because it forms a kind of
axis on which the volutions turn. The outer lip, sometimes called the
labrum, is on the opposite side, or the farthest from the axis. If the
edges of the inner and outer lips unite all round, they are described
as composing the peritrême. In fig. 318, the aperture is marked by the
letter a.
APHRODITA. Lea. (from [Greek: Aphroditê], Greek name of Venus.) A genus
composed of CARDIUM Groenlandicum, Auct. fig. 123*, and other similar
species of Cardium, the teeth of which are either wholly wanting, or
very indistinct. Northern Ocean.
APICIAL. Belonging to the apex. The apicial extremity of the aperture
of a univalve shell, is that which is nearest to the apex of the spire.
APICULUM. Humph. TROCHUS, Lam.
APLEUROTIS. Rafinesque. A genus unfigured and imperfectly described as
differing in some respects from Terebratula and other Brachiopodæ.
APLEXUS. Fleming. A genus composed of PHYSA Hypnorum, Drap. &c. and
described as having the inner lip simple, and not spread over the body
whorl.
APLODON. Rafinesque. A genus proposed to be established at the expense
of the genus HELIX, but upon what grounds does not appear from the
imperfect description which is unaccompanied by a figure.
APLUSTRE. Schum. A genus formed for the reception of those species of
BULLA which have the spire uncovered. _Ex._ Bulla Aplustre,
(_aplustre_, a flag.) Auct. fig. 289.
APLYSIA. Linn. (_a_, without; [Greek: Pluô], to wash.) _Fam._
Laplysiens, Lam. Aplysiana, Bl.--_Descr._ Horny, transparent,
clypeiform, or shield-shaped, placed horizontally on the back of the
animal, with its convex side uppermost; apex slightly incurved.--_Obs._
The animal producing this shell has derived its name from the purplish
liquor which it exudes, when disturbed. In contour, it has been fancied
to present a certain likeness to a hare crouching, and on this account
was called _Lepus marinus_, or sea hare, by the ancients. The shell
bears a strong resemblance to Dolabella, which, however, is much
thicker, and more testaceous. The species are found in the
Mediterranean, European, and West Indian Seas. A. Petersoni, fig. 254.
APLYSIACEA. Bl. The second family of the order Monopleurobranchiata,
Bl. The animals composing this family are either destitute of shells,
or are provided with internal ones, which are flat, open, oblique, with
the apex or nucleus slightly incurved, not distinctly spiral. This
family contains the genera, Aplysia and Dolabella. The first
sub-spiral, with the apex terminal; shell thin, horny. Fig. 254. The
second the same, but thick and shelly. Fig. 255.
APOLLON. Montf. RANELLA Ranina, Auct. Placed by De Blainville in that
division of Ranella, which is characterized as being umbilicated. Fig.
393.
APOROBRANCHIATA. Bl. The first order of the second section of
Paracephalophora Monoica, Bl. The Thecosmata is the only family of this
order containing any approach to shells, these are Hyalæa and Cymbulia.
APORRHAIS. Petiver. A genus formed of ROSTELLARIA Pes-pelicani, _Auct._
(fig. 404) and similar species. Although the shell presents no
characters to distinguish it generically from Rostellaria, those who
have examined the soft parts are convinced that it is distinct. Of the
three species now known and figured in part I. of Thesaurus
Conchyliorum, by the Author, one is common on our own coast, and in the
Mediterranean; also North America. See ROSTELLARIA.
AQUATIC. A term applied by some authors to those species of Molluscous
animals, which inhabit fresh water, either in rivers, or salt water
standing pools, as distinguished from the marine or Mollusca. See
Fresh-water.
AQUILLUS. Montf. TRITON Lampas, Cutaceus, &c. Auct. Placed by De
Blainville in the division of the genus Triton, which is described as
having a short spire, being covered with tubercles and umbilicated.
Triton Cutaceus, fig. 399.
ARCA. Auct. (Anglicè, a boat.) _Fam._ Arcacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Obliquely
transverse, subquadrate, equivalve, or nearly so, inequilateral, thick,
ventricose, longitudinally ribbed, dentated near the inner margins;
hinge rectilinear, forming a flat, external area, upon which the
ligament is spread in cross rows, and having a series of small, regular
teeth, extending on both sides of the umbones in each valve; muscular
impressions distant.--_Obs._ The shells composing this genus are easily
distinguished from those of all other bivalve shells, by the straight,
linear row of small, notched teeth, and by the area between the
umbones. The genus _Cucullæa_ makes the nearest approach to it in this
respect, but it may easily be known from it by the outermost teeth on
each side of the row being oblique, and lengthened out; and also by the
prominent edge of the muscular impression. These shells are found
recent, in various marine localities; fossil, in the tertiary deposits.
The Arca Noæ, formerly regarded as the type of this genus, has, with
several other species, been separated from it under the name of
Bysso-arca, by Swainson, on account of an hiatus in the ventral margin,
to admit the passage of a byssus; this is not found in the true Arcæ.
The true Arcæ are mostly tropical. Arca Antiquata, fig. 131. Bysso-arca
Noæ, 132.
ARCACEA. Lam. A family of the order Conchifera Dimyaria, characterized
by a series of teeth placed on the hinge in a line. The genera may be
distinguished as follows,
1. ARCA. Hinge straight; valves close. Fig. 131.
2. BYSSO-ARCA. Valves gaping. Fig. 132.
3. CUCULLÆA. Distant teeth oblique; posterior muscular impression
prominent. Fig. 133.
4. PECTUNCULUS. Hinge curved. Fig. 134.
5. NUCULA. The same, with a pit in the centre of the hinge,
including Myopara and Crenella. Figs. 135 to 137.
6. SOLENELLA. Fresh water, oval; a series of teeth on one side of
the hinge, only two or three on the other. Fig. 138.
ARCHAIAS. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
ARCHONTE. Montf. HYALÆA, Auct.
ARCINELLA. Schum. CHAMA Arcinella, Auct.
ARCTICA. Schum. CYPRINA Icelandica, Auct.
ARCUATED. (Arcus, an arch.) Bent in the form of an arch, as Dentalium,
fig. 2.
AREA. A flat space or disc, on any part of a shell. As for instance,
the triangular space on the hinge of Arca, fig. 132, and Spondylus.
ARENACEOUS. (Arena, sand.) Of a sandy texture, as the sand tubes
surrounding the bodies of some of the Annellides, named Arenaria on
this account. But the word is more commonly used to intimate the habits
of the animal, burrowing with its shell in the sand.
ARETHUSA. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
ARGONAUTA. Auct. Commonly called the "Paper Sailor." _Fam._ Pteropoda,
Bl. _Order_ Cephalopoda Monothalamia, Lam.--_Descr._ Light, thin,
transparent or nearly so, symmetrically convolute, carinated by a
double row of tubercles, terminating smooth or tuberculated ribs
radiating towards the centre; aperture large, elongated; peritrême
acute, interrupted by the body whorl.--_Obs._ The exquisitely
beautiful, light and delicate fabrics included under the above name are
inhabited by a molluscous animal named the _Ocythöe_, which is provided
with tuberculated arms. These, hanging over the sides of the aperture,
give to the whole the appearance of a vessel propelled by oars: a
poetical illusion further heightened by the broad, flat membranes of
the two arms, which, when vertically expanded, present an idea of
sails. Pliny has described the Nautilus (the name has been changed by
the moderns) as sailing gracefully on the Mediterranean waters; and
Pope has versified the idea in the well known lines
"Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar and
catch the driving gale."
Scientific men have long been engaged in the interesting discussion,
whether the animal really belongs to the shell in which it is found, or
whether, having destroyed the rightful owner, it has possessed itself
of the "frail bark." It is now, however, proved beyond the shadow of a
doubt that the Argonaut is the testaceous part of the Ocythöe, and that
the broad membranes which in some representations have been
artificially placed as sails, are naturally bent backwards over the
shell like the mantle of some other molluscs. The interesting
experiments of Madame Power, in the Mediterranean, have contributed
very materially to lead the investigations of Naturalists to a
satisfactory conclusion. This lady kept a cage under water, in which
Argonautæ were bred in great numbers, giving her an opportunity of
tracing the gradual development of the shell in all its stages, from
the elastic and transparent nucleus to the full grown "Paper Sailor."
Fig. 485.
ARIANTA. Leach. A sub-genus of land shells, containing HELIX
arbustorum, Auct. (Gray, Turton, p. 137.)
ARION. A genus of slugs which have no shells.
ARROW-HEADS. One of the names by which fossils of the genus Belemnites
were formerly known.
ARTEMIS. A genus of bivalve shells, distinguished from those of the
genus Venus, by having a rounded, denticular form, and a deep, angular
sinus in the palleal impression. This does not appear to me to be a
sufficient ground of generic distinction, the palleal impressions of
the Veneres being subject to great variations. British, also from West
Indies, South America, Australia, &c. A. lincta, fig. 118.
ARTICULATED. (Jointed.) Applied to distinct parts of shells, which are
fitted or jointed into each other, as the valves of Chitones and those
of Balani. The operculum of Nerita is said to be _articulated_ to the
columella, having a small process by which it is as it were locked
under the edge. See _Introduction_. The word is also applied to the
Cirri, which protrude from the oral openings of Cirripedes.
ARTICULINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
ASIPHONIBRANCHIATA. Bl. The second order of Paracephalophora Dioica,
Bl. Consisting of spiral univalves, which have no notch or canal at the
anterior part of the aperture. This order is divided into the families
Goniosomata, Cricosomata, Ellipsostomata, Hemicyclostomata, and
Oxystomata.
ASPERGILLUM. Lam. (From _Aspergo_, to sprinkle.) _Fam._ Tubicolæ, Lam.
Pyloridea, Bl.--_Descr._ The small, equal, equilateral valves are
cemented into, so as to form part of, a large tube; the umbones are
slightly prominent outside. The tube is elongated, rather irregular,
granulated with sandy particles, and terminated at the base by a convex
disc, which is perforated by small pores, elongated into tubes round
the edge, presenting a resemblance to the spout of a watering pot,
whence the name is derived. _Loc._ New Holland, Java, New Zealand, Red
Sea. Fig. 44. Aspergillum Vaginiferum.
ASSIMINEA. Leach. _Fam._ Turbinacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Inclining to oval,
light, thin, covered with a horny epidermis, spire produced into an
acute pyramid; whorls slightly angulated in the centre, rounded
beneath; aperture elliptical, slightly modified by the last whorl;
inner lip planed; outer lip thin; operculum horny, subspiral. Found in
brackish water; one species may be procured abundantly on the muddy
shores of the Thames, in Kent. There are also species from Calcutta,
China, Tahiti, and Australia. Without comparing the animals, it is
difficult to distinguish this genus from some species of Littorina.
Fig. 363. A. Grayana.
ASTACOLUS. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera. CRISTELLARIA
Crepidula, Lam.
ASTARTE J. Sowerby. (Name of a Sidonian Goddess, _Ashtaroth_ in
Scripture.) _Fam._ Nymphacea, Lam. Genus Crassina, Lam.--_Descr._
Suborbicular, equivalve, inequilateral, thick, compressed; hinge with
two solid diverging teeth in the right valve, one tooth and a slight
posterior elevation in the left; muscular impressions, two in each
valve, uniform, united by a simple palleal impression; ligament
external.--_Obs._ This genus differs from Venus, Cytheræa, &c. in not
having a posterior sinus in the impression of the mantle. The hinge
also differs in having but two cardinal teeth. Astarte differs from
Crassatella in having no internal cartilage in the hinge. Some of the
species are British, others are from America, and one from Sicily. The
fossils occur in Crag, Lower Oolite, &c. Fig. 110. A. Danmoniensis.
ASTROLEPAS. Klein. CORONULA Testudinaria, Auct. CHELONOBIA, Leach. Fig.
15.
ATLANTA. Lesueur. _Fam._ Pteropoda, Lam. and Bl.--_Descr._ Spiral,
convolute, transparent, fragile, compressed, with a broad, fimbriated,
dorsal keel, and a narrow aperture. This shell, which is called "_corne
d'ammon vivant_," is found in the Atlantic. The small Pteropod, figured
in Sowerby's Genera as Limacina, belongs to this genus. Atlanta
Helicialis, fig. 220.
ATRACTODON. Charlesworth. (Mag. Nat. Hist. 2nd series, Vol. 1. p. 218.
) A genus proposed for the admission of a singular fossil shell, found
on the beach at Felix-stone, of which the following are the
characters;--fusiform, aperture equalling the spire in length,
terminating anteriorly in a slightly recurved canal; columellar lip
smooth, curved, thickened posteriorly into a blunt tooth; spire
obtuse.--_Obs._ This shell would be a Fusus were it not for the tooth
on the posterior extremity of the columellar lip. The only species
known is regularly striated in a spiral direction, and named A.
Elegans.
ATRYPA, Dalman. A genus of brachiopodous bivalves, distinguished by the
valves being nearly equal, and the umbones not separated by an
intermediate area. A. reticulata, fig 302.
ATTACHED. Shells are attached to marine substances by various means; in
some cases by a _byssus_, or a bunch of tendinous fibres passing
through an opening between the valves, which gape at their margins to
admit a free passage, as in the genera Byssoarca and Mytilus. In other
cases the byssus is of a more compact substance, and passes through a
perforation in the shell itself. This is the case with many of the
brachiopodous shells, in some species of which the perforation is in
the point of the umbones, a specimen of which is represented in the
Introduction. This species of attachment does not keep the animal
motionless, although it is confined to a particular spot. Other shells
are attached by a portion of their own substance, as in Chama,
Spondylus, Serpula, &c. in which instances, the attached valve is
motionless, and is termed the under valve. The Pedunculated Cirripedes
are attached by a tubular tendinous process, called a peduncle.
ATTENUATED. Drawn out, long, thin, tapering, as the extremities of
Ovulum Volva, fig. 442.
ATYS. Montf. A generic name including those species of BULLA, which are
described as "convolute, with the last whorl covering the rest and
hiding the spire, the apex rounded at both ends." Bulla Naucum, Auct.
fig. 250.
AURICLE. (A little ear.) See AURICULATED.
AURICULA. Lam. (Dim. from _Auris_ an ear.) _Fam._ Auriculacea. Bl.
Colimacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Oval or oblong, cylindrical or conical;
aperture long, narrow, generally narrowest in the centre; rounded
anteriorly, with two or three strong folds on the inner lip, and the
outer lip thickened, reflected or denticulated; spire short, obtuse,
epidermis horny, brown.--_Obs._ The above description includes the A.
coniformis, f. 298. and several other conical species with narrow
apertures which formed the genus _Melampus_, Montf. and _Conovulus_,
Lam. The latter author suppressed his genus on ascertaining the
Conovuli to be land shells. We exclude, however, the A. Dombeyana, Lam.
f. 300. and several similar species, which being more rounded, having
thin outer lips and but one fold on the columella, are described under
the generic name _Chilina_, Gray. It appears rather doubtful whether
the Auriculæ are marine or fluviatile, but the animals appear to be
amphibious. The Auriculæ are principally found in Salt Marshes of
Tropical climates, some small species are found on the Southern
European Coasts, as far north as Britain and south as Tierra del Fuego.
The Auriculæ formed a part of the genus Voluta of Linnæus, f. 297. A.
Judæ, f. 298. A. Coniformis.
AURICULATED. Some bivalve shells, such as _Pecten_, fig. 171, 172, have
a flat, broad, somewhat triangular appendage on one or both sides of
the umbones, called an _auricle_, or little _ear_. If on one side only,
they are said to be _uni-auriculated_; if on both, they are said to be
_bi-auriculated_.
AURICULACEA. Bl. The second family of the order Pulmobranchiata, thus
described; "shell thick, solid; aperture more or less oval, always
large, rounded anteriorly, and contracted by teeth or folds on the
columella." This family is included in the genus Voluta of Linnæus, on
account of the plaited columellar lip, a character by which that
heterogeneous assemblage of shells is distinguished. It forms part of
the family of _Colimacea_, Lam. from which they differ not only in
general form, but also in the fact of the animals being partly
amphibious, always living (according to De Blainville) on the sea
shore, and being occasionally covered with water for a short time. It
contains the genera Pedipes, Auricula, Pyramidella.
AURIFERA. Bl. OTION, Auct.
AURIFORM. (From _Auris_, an ear; _forma_, shape.) Ex. _Haliotis_, fig.
338.
AURISCALPIUM. Megerle. ANATINA, Lam.
AVICULA. Lam. (From _Avis_, a bird). _Fam._ Malleacea, Lam.
Margaritacea, Bl.--_Descr._ Inequivalve, inequilateral, foliaceous,
subquadrate, oblique, pearly; hinge rectilinear, lengthened into
auricular appendages, with a small indistinct tooth in each valve, an
elongated, marginal, ligamentiferous area, and an hiatus in the left
valve, for the passage of a byssus; one circular muscular impression,
near the centre of each valve, with a series of smaller ones arranged
in a line towards the umbones.--_Obs._ The Meleagrinæ of Lamarck,
Margaritiferæ, Schum. included in this description, consist of the more
rounded species, and do not present the elegant obliquity of form, nor
the wing-like auricles from which the genus Avicula receives its name.
The Aviculæ are pearly within. From A. margaritifera, a young specimen
of which is figured in the plates, fig. 164, is obtained oriental
pearls. This is an example of Meleagrina. A. Hirundo, fig. 163, belongs
to the genus Avicula of Lamarck. It is, however, needless to continue
the separation. Aviculæ are from E. and W. Indies, Mexico, Coasts of
the Pacific, Mediterranean, British Islands, &c. Fossil species occur
in the London clay, &c.
AXINUS. J. Sowerby.--_Descr._ Equivalve, transverse; posterior side
very short, rounded, with a long ligament, placed in a furrow,
extending along the whole edge; anterior side produced, angulated,
truncated, with a flattish _lunule_ near the beaks. The late Mr. James
Sowerby, who described this shell in the Mineral Conchology, did not
consider his genus as established, not having seen the hinge.
AXIS. The imaginary line, round which the whorls of a spiral shell
revolve. The extremities of the axis are pointed out in fig. 379, by
the letters, _a. a._ See "COLUMELLA."
AZECA. Leach. _Fam._ Colimacea, Lam.--_Descr._ "Animal like Bulinus,
with subcylindrical, rather obtuse shell, covered with a polished
periostraca (epidermis); aperture pear-shaped, curved and pointed at
the top; the margin thick, obtuse, united all round and toothed; the
axis imperforated." Gray's edition of Turton's British Shells, page
189.--_Obs._ The Turbo Tridens of Montagu, upon which this genus is
founded, resembles Bulinus lubricus in general form and character. Both
these shells differ from the true Bulini in having the peritreme
entire, and in being pellucid and glossy. Azeca differs from Bulinus
lubricus in having three teeth in the aperture, two on the inner lip
and one on the outer. Not seeing the necessity for creating a genus on
grounds so slight, I have simply transcribed the description given
above, leaving others to form their own conclusions as to the propriety
of separating this shell from the genus Bulinus. Britain, Central and
Southern Europe. Azeca Tridens, fig. 290.
AZEMUS. Ranzani. CONIA, Leach.
BACULITES. Lam. _Fam._ Orthocerata, Bl. Ammonacea, Lam.--_Descr._
Straight, conical, tubular, laterally compressed; chambers divided by
very sinuous lobed septa, the last elongated; aperture elliptical;
siphon dorsal.--_Obs._ This genus differs from Orthoceras in the same
manner in which Ammonites differs from Nautilus, having its septa
sinuated and branched. A Baculite might be described as a straight
Ammonite. This genus is known only in a fossil state. It is found in
the Cretaceous Limestone of Maëstricht and Valognes. Fig. 484. B.
Faujasii.
BALANUS. Brug. (an Acorn; "gland de Mer." Fr.) _Order_ Sessile
Cirripedes, Lam. _Fam._ Balanidea, Bl.--_Descr._ Shell composed of six
valves articulated to each other side by side in a circle, by the
insertion of lamina; closed at the base by a flat, cylindrical or
cup-shaped valve, by which it is generally attached; and at the apex by
a conical operculum, consisting of four valves in anterior and
posterior pairs. Each valve of the shell is divided into a rough
triangular portion pointed towards the apex, and a flat area on each
side.--_Obs._ This description includes the _Acasta_ of Leach, which
growing in sponges, has the base cup-shaped; _Conoplæa_ of Say, which
being attached to the stems of Gorgonia and sea-weeds has the base
elongated and lanceolate, and _Chirona_, Gray. Balanus is the only
genus of Sessile Cirripedes the shells of which consist of six parietal
valves, except _coronula_, which has no shelly base, is flatter, and
has the valves of the operculum placed horizontally. The Balani are
common in all seas, adhering to rocks, corals, floating timber, and to
each other. The fossil species are found in the newest strata, at
Bordeaux, Paris, &c. Fig. 25. B. Tintinnabulum; 26. _Acasta_ Montagui;
27. Balanus galeatus, _Conoplæa_, Say.
BALANIDEA. Bl. The second family of the class Nematopoda, Bl.
corresponding with Sessile Cirripedes, Lam., and consisting of
Coronular Multivalves, which are fixed, and in a manner soldered to
submarine substances, by the base of the shell; as distinguished from
the Lepadicea, Bl., Pedunculated Cirripedes, Lam., which are attached
by a fleshy stalk. The Balanidea are composed of two sets of valves,
besides the shelly plate or base on which they rest. The first, called
the Parietal valves, are arranged so as to surround the body of the
animal; the second, called the Opercular valves, are placed
horizontally, so as to cover the aperture.
BALEA. Gray. _Fam._ Colimacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Spiral, turrited,
concentrically striated, sinistral, and covered with a thin brown
epidermis; spire composed of numerous whorls, gradually increasing in
size; aperture small, sub-quadrate; peritrême entire, slightly
thickened, with a very slight fold on the columella; axis
perforated.--_Obs._ A genus of small land shells, found in moss at the
roots of trees in Britain, not very nearly resembling any other land
shells, except Clausilia, from which they differ in not having the
clausium. They have been placed in Helix by De Ferrusac, and in Pupa by
Draparnaud. B. fragilis, fig. 296. _Helix perversa_, Fer. _Pupa
perversa_, Drap.
BARBATA. Humphrey. UNIO, Lam.
BARNACLES. PENTELASMIS, Auct. (fig. 34.) Called Anatifa, by Linnæus and
Lamarck, from the ancient notion that they were the eggs or embryo of
the Barnacle Duck. See ANATIFER.
BASE. In all shells which are attached to sub-marine substances, the
base is that part of the shell which forms the point of attachment,--as
for instance, the attached valve of Spondylus, the basal plate of
Balanus, the lower part of the peduncle of Pentelasmis; in Unattached
Bivalves, the margin opposite to the umbones, where the foot of the
animal, or the part analogous to it, protrudes; in spiral univalves,
the aperture, which rests on the back of the animal when walking.
Lamarck and some other authors have used the term _base_ as simply
opposed to apex, and apply it to the anterior of the aperture.
BATOLITES. Montf. HIPPURITES, Auct.
BEAK. The Apices, or points of the valves of a bivalve shell, generally
termed UMBONES, in descriptions. Also any part which is rostrated or
drawn out like a beak.
BEAKED. See BEAK and ROSTRATED.
BEAR'S-PAW-CLAM. The common name for Hippopus maculatus, a
representation of which is given in the plates, fig. 156.
BELEMNITES. Auct. ([Greek: Belemnon], _belemnon_, a dart, or arrow.)
_Fam._ Orthocerata, Bl. and Lam.--_Descr._ Straight, conical,
consisting of two parts; the _external_ portion forming a thick solid
sheath, with a cavity at the base to admit the internal portion or
nucleus, which is mathematically conical, and is divided into chambers
by smooth simple septa perforated by a lateral siphon.--_Obs._ These
singular fossils, which are found in most secondary beds, have long
attracted the attention of philosophers as well as of the ignorant,
from whom they have received the various appellations of
Thunder-Stones, Petrified Arrows, Petrified Fingers, Devil's Fingers,
Spectre Candles, &c. The above description is framed to include the
genera Hibolithes, Porodragus, Cetocis, Acamas, and Paclites of De
Montfort, and Actinocamax, Stokes. Fig. 466 to 468.
BELLEROPHON. Montf. (or Bellerophus).--_Descr._ Convolute, symmetrical,
umbilicated, with a double dorsal ridge; aperture wide,
semilunar.--_Obs._ The fossils composing this genus resemble Nautilus
in general appearance, but not being chambered shells they approach
very near to Argonauta, from which they differ only in the thickness of
their shell and in roundness of their external form. This genus is
erroneously placed by De Montfort among chambered shells, and by De
Blainville next to Bulla. It belongs to the Monothalamous Cephalopoda
of Lamarck. This fossil is found principally in the Carboniferous
Limestone. Fig. 486, 487, represent B. tenuifasciata.
BELOPTERA. The bony support of a species of Cuttlefish, partly
resembling Sepia.
BIAPHOLIUS. Leach. A genus believed to be identical with Hiatella.
BI-AURICULATED. Having two auricles placed at the sides of the umbones,
as in Pecten, fig. 171. See AURICULATED.
BICATILLUS. Sw. A sub-genus of "Calyptrædæ," including those species,
which have cup-shaped internal septa, as for example, Calyptræa
extinctorium, fig. 235.
BICONIA. Sw. A sub-genus of "Calyptrædæ," including those species in
which the septum is partly spiral.
BIFID. Divided, double.
BIFRONTIA. Deshayes. Also OMALAXIS, Desh. _Fam._ Turbinacea,
Lam.--_Descr._ Discoidal, planorbicular, with whorls sometimes not
contiguous; umbilicus deep, keeled at the margin; aperture
subtriangular, somewhat dilated; outer lip acute, separated by a deep
notch at both extremities.--_Obs._ We do not see any reason for
separating this genus from SOLARIUM, except the last mentioned
character. The few fossil species which this genus contains (Solarium
disjunctum, Bifrons, &c.) are found principally in the Paris basin.
Fig. 354. Solarium Bifrons.
BI-FURCATE. Double pronged, or having two points. _Ex._ the internal
appendage of Calyptræa Equestris, fig. 234.
BIGENERINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
BILABIATED. Having the edge of the outer lip as it were doubled, by one
part of the lip being more thickened and reflected than the other, so
as to form a ledge, or second lip.
BILOBATE. Having two prominent parts, as the outer lip of Rostellaria
Pes-Peleeani, fig. 404.
BIPARTITE. Composed of or divided into two parts; double; as the valves
of Platylepas, fig. 19, each of which has a septiform division in the
centre; also the area on the hinge of Spondylus. See Frontispiece.
BIROSTRA. Sw. A genus composed of species of OVULUM, which have
elongated extremities, as, for instance, Ovulum Volva, fig. 442.
BIROSTRITES. Lam. (Double Beak.) A fossil formerly considered as a
distinct bivalve shell, with conical umbones, and placed in the family
of Rudistes by Lamarck, but now known to be an internal cast of
Sphærulites, fig. 196.
BISIPHYTES. Described by De Montfort as resembling a Nautilus, but
having two distinct siphons. As no such fossil species is now known to
Naturalists, it appears probable that De Montfort having a specimen of
some Nautilus, with an accidental depression, took it for a second
siphon.
BITHINIA. Gray. A genus described as differing from PALUDINA, in having
the operculum shelly, and the mouth of the shell thickened internally.
PALUDINA impura, Auct. Fig. 537.
BITOMUS. Montf. A microscopic shell, deriving this general appellation,
from the appearance of a double aperture.
BIVALVE. A shell composed of two equal, or nearly equal principal
parts, each part having a separate nucleus, turning upon each other by
means of a hinge. The class Conchifera of Lamarck, Acephalophora of De
Blainville severally include the whole of the bivalve shells; the
latter name being derived from the fact that the animals have not
distinct heads, and neither eyes nor tentacula. All bivalve shells are
marine or fresh-water. They form the class Dithyra of Aristotle. It may
be observed that some of the Acephalophora, the Pholades, for example,
have small testaceous pieces fixed on the hinge, which are called
accessary valves. These are still fairly bivalve shells, although the
genus Pholas has been placed by some writers among the multivalves.
BOAR'S TUSK. A common name given to shells of the genus Dentalium. One
particular species has received a specific name in accordance with a
supposed resemblance, namely, Dentalium Aprinum, (of a Boar.)
BONELLIA. Desh. A genus formed, in the first instance, for the
reception of Bulinus terebellatus, Lam. which Mr. G. B. Sowerby, in his
Genera of Shells, united with the genus PYRAMIDELLA. M. Deshayes,
however, in his new edition of Lamarck, makes the genus Bonellia
include several species which I have arranged in the genus Eulima. From
the remarks of M. Deshayes, tom. 8, p. 286, 287, we are led to suppose
that the estimated difference between Eulima and Bonellia consists in
the latter having the axis perforated; or in other words, umbilicated.
After remarking "que Mr. Sowerby, junr. confond deux choses bien
distinctes, sous le nomme d'Eulima," M. Deshayes gives the following
description of his genus, (translated) "shell turriculated, smooth,
polished, with the apex acute and laterally inclined; axis perforated
throughout its length; aperture small, entire, angular at the
extremities; columella simple and without folds; outer lip thin,
simple, nearly parallel with the longitudinal axis." That author
further remarks, "Mr. Sowerby, junr. à signalé cinque espèces vivant,
que nous rapportons à notre genre." (Sowerby, junr. Conchological
Illustrations, parts 52 and 53; 50, Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury.)
The species thus selected are E. splendidula, E. marmorata, E.
interrupta, E. imbricata, E. brunnea; the two last of which have the
umbilicus so inconsiderable, as to be scarcely distinguishable from
other species, which M. Deshayes has left in the genus Eulima, and
which have a slight hollow, almost approaching to a perforation, behind
the columella. Eulima marmorata, (Bonellia, Desh.) is figured in the
plates, fig. 348.
BODY WHORL. The last whorl, constituting the bulk of the shell.
BORELIS. Montf. MELONIA, Bl. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
BORER or PIERCER. A term applied to those species of Acephalopodous
Mollusca, which bore holes as dwellings in the rocks, as the Pholades,
and some others.
BRACHIOPODA. Lam. A family of symmetrical bivalves belonging to the
third section of Lamarck's _order_ "Conchifera Monomyaria," described
as bivalve (generally symmetrical) adhering to marine bodies, by a
tendon passing through the shell, having no true ligament. What most
distinguishes this family and renders it remarkable is the structure of
the animal. It has two elongated, tendril-shaped arms. When the animal
is in a state of repose these arms are coiled up spirally and enclosed
in the shell, but when required for use, are unfolded and extended.
This family contains the genera Orbicula, Terebratula and Lingula, in
the system of Lamarck, to which may be added Thecidium, Productus,
Spirifer, Magas, Pentamerus, Crania, Strigocephalus, Strophomena, and
some others enumerated in the explanation of figures 201 to 219. The
above genera may be thus distinguished.
1. ORBICULA. Umbones central; byssus passing through a hole in the
flat valve. Fig. 201.
2. ATRYPA. Without foramen or space between the valves. Fig. 203.
3. PRODUCTA. The same, valves produced, overwrapping; including
Leptæna. Fig. 206, 206*.
4. TEREBRATULA. Hinge of the upper valve produced beyond that of
the other, with a pit or foramen; including _Delthyris_, _Orthis_,
_Trigonosemus_, _Magas_, _Strophomena_. Fig. 202, 205, 207, 208,
209.
5. SPIRIFER. The same, with deep triangular area; spiral folds in
the interior; including _Trigonotreta_ and _Cyrtia_. Fig. 204, 214,
215.
6. THECIDIUM. Large valve attached; curved ridges in the inner
surface; two jutting points or teeth on the hinge. Fig. 216.
7. CRANIA. Attached by the surface of the valve; muscular
impressions four, forming a face. Fig. 197, _a_, b.
8. PYCNODONTA. Irregular; hinge with raised pointed teeth. Fig.
217, 218.
9. PENTAMERUS. Valves divided by septa; including _Gypidia_. Fig.
210 to 213.
10. LINGULA. Valves equal, gaping, with a peduncle. Fig. 219.
BRACHITOMA. Swainson. A genus composed of PLEUROTOMA strombiformis and
similar species, described as "sub-fusiform; resembling a small
Strombus or Fusus; spire and aperture of equal length; canal short;
outer lip slightly ascending, and forming a short canal; sinus very
small and nearly semicircular; inner lip thickened above. B.
Strombiformis, Sow. Man. fig. 381." Europe, East and West Indies,
China, &c.
BRANCHIFERA. Bl. The second family of the order Cervicobranchiata,
containing the following genera of symmetrical univalves:--Fissurella,
Emarginula, and Parmophorus.
BRISMÆUS. Leach. _Order._ Pedunculated Cirripedes. Lam.--_Descr._ Seven
plates, three pairs lateral, one dorsal; form cylindrically conical;
pedicle not described. _Hab._ Holes in corals. B. Rhophodius, fig.
38.--_Obs._ This minute shell most nearly resembles Pollicipes
Mitellus, fig. 37*, but the difference may be seen at once by comparing
the figures.
BRONTES. Montf. This generic name is given to such species of MUREX as
have a very long, closed canal; with a short spire, circular aperture,
and are destitute of spires and ramifications. Brontes (Murex)
Haustellum, fig. 390.
BUCARDIA. Schum. ISOCARDIA, Auct.
BUCCINUM. Linn. _Fam._ Purpurifera, Lam. Entomostomata, Bl.--_Descr._
Subovate or oblong, covered with an epidermis; spire turrited,
consisting of few whorls; aperture wide, subovate, terminating
anteriorly in a very short canal, reflected over the back; outer lip
simple, slightly reflected; inner lip spread over a portion of the body
whorl, terminating in a thick, smooth columella; operculum horny.
_Hab._ British Seas, Northern Ocean, and Coast of Africa. Most of the
fossil species occur in Crag, some in upper marine formation and London
clay.--_Obs._ There are considerable difficulties in keeping this genus
distinct from others nearly related to it, into which many of the
species run by imperceptible gradations. The genus _Nassa_ has been
separated on account of the little notch, which terminates the
columella. Some species of Terebra come so close upon the Buccina, that
it is difficult to say where one genus ends and the other begins. T.
Buccinoides, fig. 427. Buccinum Undatum, the common Whelk, fig. 421.
BUFO. Montf. A generic division of the species composing Ranella,
characterized as having the shell not umbilicated. _Ex._ R. ranina,
fig. 394. The above character is scarcely sufficient in some cases,
even as a specific distinction.
BULBUS. Humph. RAPELLA, Swainson. A genus formed for the reception of
PYRULA papyracea, Auct. (fig. 389), and similar species. RAPANUS,
Montf.
BULIMIMA. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
BULIMULUS. Leach. _Fam._ Colimacea, Lam. The author is unacquainted
with the characters by which the two or three species included in this
genus are to be distinguished from Bulinus. We have represented, fig.
283, Bulimulus trifasciatus, Leach, (Bulinus Guadaloupensis, Auct.)
This occurs in the same limestone which encloses the half fossilized
human remains from the Grand Terre of Guadaloup. Several species are
described by the Rev. L. Guilding in the Zoological Journal, namely,
the B. Undulatus, Antiguensis, and Proteus; but neither from the shells
themselves, nor from the figures of the animal, can we draw any
information as to the generic character; the difference alleged by Mr.
Swainson and Mr. Gray being a comparative thinness in the outer lip.
BULINUS. Brug. (Bulinus, Lam.) _Fam._ Colimacea, Lam. Limacinea,
Bl.--_Descr._ Oval or oblong, light, covered with a thin epidermis;
spire obtuse, variable in length and in the number of whorls, which are
generally few; aperture wide, oval, rounded anteriorly; outer lip
simple, usually reflected, joining the columella without a sinus; inner
lip reflected over part of the body-whorl. The Bulini are land shells,
found in many parts of the world.--_Obs._ The genus Bulinus can only be
distinguished from Helix by its oval form; it forms part of the genus
Helix of De Ferrusac, under the sub-generic designation of Cochlostyla.
It is known from Achatina by the absence of the notch at the point of
union between the inner and the outer lips. The young are produced from
eggs, which are as firm and opaque as those of birds. (See
Introduction.) Bulinus rosaceus, fig. 282. B. Guadaloupensis, fig. 283.
B. Lionetianus, fig. 284. B. lubricus, fig. 285. Many new species were
brought to this country by Mr. Cuming, and are represented in the
Conchological Illustrations, published by the Author at 50, Great
Russell Street, Bloomsbury, (in parts 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 30, 31, 34,
35, 137 to 146, 185, 186.) Species occur in Europe, West Indies,
Brazil, and South America generally. Some small species are British.
BULLA. Auct. _Fam._ "Bulléens," Lam. Akera, Bl.--_Descr._ Generally
thin, smooth, oval, oblong or cylindrical, more or less convolute;
spire short, depressed, or hidden by the last whorl; aperture long,
wide in front, gradually narrowing towards the spire; outer lip thin;
inner lip spread over a part of the last whorl.--_Obs._ The shells
composing this genus are very variable in form. The light horny species
with an elastic lip is called Akera, fig. 247. The more decidedly
convolute species with hidden spires are the Atys, Montf. B. Naucum,
fig. 250. B. Lignaria, fig. 251, is Scaphander of Leach. The light,
thin species, with extremely wide aperture, fig. 248, is Bullæa aperta,
Lam. The genus Bullinula of Dr. Beck, consists of those species which
have more produced spines, fig. 253. The Bullæ are marine, and inhabit
all climates. The fossil species occur in tertiary beds.
BULLÆA. Lam. BULLA aperta, Auct. fig. 248.
BULLÆANA. ("Bulléens, Lam.") A family belonging to the first section of
Lamarck's order, Gasteropoda, containing the genus Bulla. The genera
Bullæa, Akera, Aplustra, Atys, Scaphander, Bullinula, into which it has
been divided, may all be fairly included under the name BULLA.
BULLIA. Gray. A genus of shells partly resembling Buccinum, and Terebra
in general form, being more elongated than the former and more
ventricose than the latter. Mr. Gray remarks in the Synopsis of the
British Museum, page 114, that the Bulliæ resemble the Nassæ in most
characters, "but they have a very large, broad foot, and the hinder
part of the inner lip of the shell being extended beyond the mouth,
forms a raised enamelled band round the suture of the whorls, as is
also the case with the Ancillariæ and some Volutes." Bullia vittata,
fig. 427, is an example of the genus. The name Subula is given by De
Blainville to the other species of Terebra, so that if both these
genera were admitted, the old genus Terebra must be expunged.
BULLINULA. Beck. Species of BULLA, with produced conical spires, fig.
253.
BYSSOARCA. Sw. (_Byssus_ and _Arca_.) _Fam._ Arcacea, Lam. A genus of
bivalve shells, composed of the Arca _Noæ_, and several other species,
separated from the genus Arca on account of their shells being attached
by means of a byssus passing through an hiatus in the ventral margins.
B. _Noæ_, fig. 132. The species occur in Southern Europe, East and West
Indies, China; also, on the coasts of Great Britain.
BYSSOMYA. Cuvier. (_Byssus_ and _Mya_.) De Blainville states that
although the shell of this proposed genus resembles Saxicava, the
animal is sufficiently different to justify the separation.
BYSSUS. ([Greek: Bussos], _byssus_, ancient name for linen.) The
tendinous fibres by which some Bivalves are as it were anchored or
moored to sub-marine substances. A fine example of this is to be seen
in the Pinnæ which bear some resemblance to large Muscle Shells and
have an hiatus in the margins of the valves through which a bunch of
silken fibres passes. In the British Museum there is preserved a pair
of gloves which have been woven of these fibres. The Byssus is peculiar
to some bivalve shells such as Muscles, Hammer Oysters, Arca Noæ, &c.
CALCAR. Montf. (a spur.) A genus composed of TROCHUS STELLARIS, Lam.
and other depressed species of Trochus which are characterized by a
stellated keel round the angle of the last whorl; but not including T.
Imperialis, which is the genus Imperator, Montf. The difference
consists in the latter being umbilicated and the former not. T.
stellaris, fig. 358.
CALCAREOUS, (_calx_, lime.) A term applied to a shell or to its
operculum which is composed principally of lime or shelly matter, as is
usually the case, in distinction from one which is of an horny,
membranaceous texture. The greater number of shells are calcareous, but
it forms an important point of distinction with regard to the
operculum. The only difference between the genera Trochus and Turbo, as
at present established, depends upon the calcareous or shelly, and the
corneus or horny texture of the operculum.
CALCEOLA. _Fam._ Rudistes, Lam. and Bl.--_Descr._ Equilateral,
inequivalve, triangular; umbones separated by a large triangular disc
in the lower valve; cardinal margin straight, linear, dentated; lower
valve large, deep; upper valve flat, semi-orbicular, forming a kind of
operculum to the lower.--_Obs._ This singular shell, known only in a
fossil state, in the Palæozöic beds, is placed by Linnæus in the genus
Anomia. Lamarck places it among his Rudistes, but Mr. Sowerby in his
genera of Shells, states that it should be added to the family of
Brachiopoda. Fig. 194, 195. C. Sandalina.
CALLANTICA. Gray. POLLICIPES hispidus, Leach.
CALLIA. Gray? A genus described as having a peculiarly polished shell
like Pupina, but wanting the notch.
CALLISOSTOMA. Sw. A genus of shells separated from TROCHUS, and thus
described, "Imperforate; spire elevated, acute; aperture broader than
high, transversely ovate, hardly sinuated at the base, and slightly
oblique; shells always smooth, and often polished." C. zizyphina is
mentioned as an example.
CALLIRHOE. Montf. p. 362, vol. 2. Appears to be figured from the nut or
inner portion of a large Belemnite.
CALLISCAPHA. Gray? IRIDINA Nilotica, Sow. Zool. Journ. 1. pl. 2.
Separated from Iridina on account of the hinge margin being smooth.
CALLITHEA. Sw. A sub-genus of Mitræ, consisting of those species, which
like M. sanguisuga, have the "spire and aperture of nearly equal
length; internal channel nearly obsolete; shell with longitudinal
linear ribs, crossed by transverse striæ and bands; base contracted."
Swainson Mallac. Lard. Cyclop.
CALLOSITY. A term used in general zoology to express those hard horny
tumidities formed in the skin of some animals, (such as the Dromedary,
for instance) in those parts which are most frequently used. It is not
used in this sense by Conchologists, who apply it to those undefined
tumidities or bumps which appear on the inner surface and hinge of some
bivalve shells, and to the thickening over the umbilicus of Naticæ.
Glycimeris, fig. 67. Natica, fig. 327, 328.
CALPURNUS. Montf. OVULUM _verrucosum_, Auct. Distinguished by the small
circular tubercle at the back of each extremity of the shell. Fig. 441.
CALYPTRACEA. Lam. A family belonging to the first section of the order
Gasteropoda, Lam., the shells of which are described as always
external, covering the animal, and having no operculum. The genera
contained in this family may be thus distinguished.
1. CALYPTRÆA. Conical; apex central, septum spiral, cup-shaped, or
forked; including _Infundibulum_. Fig. 234 to 238.
2. CREPIDULA. Apex terminal; septum flat, reaching half across the
aperture. Fig. 239.
3. CAPULUS. Conical; apex obliquely curved, no septum. Fig. 240.
4. EMARGINULA. Apex curved backwards; a notch in the anterior
margin; including _Parmophorus_. Fig. 241, 242.
5. CEMORIA. A slit _near_ the apex. Fig. 244.
6. FISSURELLA. A slit _upon_ the apex. Fig. 245.
7. RIMULA. A slit near the margin. Fig. 243.
8. ANCYLUS. Apex curved sidewise. Fig. 246.
CALYPTRACEA. Bl. The second family of the order Scutibranchiata. Bl.
thus described: "Shell more or less conical, not spiral, or very
slightly so; aperture large and entire." The genera included in this
family are Crepidula, Calyptræa, Capulus, Hipponyx, and Notrêma.
CALYPTRÆA. Lam. _Fam._ Calyptracea, Lam. and Bl.--_Descr._ Conical,
patelliform, irregular, with an internal, lateral, salient plate or
septum, varying in form.--_Obs._ The internal appendage is in some
species cup-shaped, in some it juts out of the centre in a double
point; in others it is only a small flap; and in others a spiral disc.
These last, which are shaped like Trochus, are separated by De Montfort
under the appellation INFUNDIBULUM; TROCHATELLA, Sw. The Calyptræa may
be known from Crepidula by the septum, which in the latter is a flat
plate reaching half way across the cavity. Fig. 234, 5, 6.
CAMERINA. Brug. NUMMULITES, Auct.
CAMILLUS. Montf. A genus founded upon a minute spiral shell, with a
triangular aperture, turned over the back of the last whorl. It is
figured in Soldani's Testacea Microscopica.
CAMPULOTUS. Guettard. MAGILUS, Auct.
CANAL. A groove which characterizes some spiral univalves, where the
inner and outer lips unite at the front part of the aperture. This
canal is drawn out in some shells to a considerable length, in others
it is turned abruptly over the back. The family Canaliferæ, Lam. (fig.
372 to 401), are all provided with this canal.
CANALICULATED. Applied generally to any distinct groove or canal.
CANALIFERA. (_Canalifères_, Lam.) A family belonging to the order
Trachelipoda, Lam. nearly corresponding with the family Entomostomata
in De Blainville's system, and described as having a canal of greater
or less extent at the anterior part of the aperture. This canal is
sometimes straight, sometimes tortuous, and in some genera it is
recurved over the back of the shell. All the shells have an operculum,
and the thickness of the perfectly formed outer lip does not increase
with age. The Canalifera are characterized by having a canal, in
distinction from the Purpurifera, which have only a notch. This family
contains the following genera,
1. CERITHIUM. Club-shaped. Fig. 372.
2. POTAMIS. The same, fresh water. Fig. 377.
3. NERINEA. The same, with internal folds. Fig. 374.
4. TRIPHORA. Anterior and posterior canals closed so as to present
three openings. Fig. 375, 376.
5. TELESCOPIUM. Pyramidal, trochiform. Fig. 378.
6. PLEUROTOMA. A slit on the upper part of the outer lip; including
_Clavatula_. Fig. 379, 381.
7. TURBINELLA. Three horizontal folds on the columella. Fig. 382,
383.
8. SPIRILLUS. Spire papillary; one fold on the columella. Fig. 384.
9. CANCELLARIA. Three folds, and internal costæ. Fig. 385.
10. FASCIOLARIA. Oblique folds, the lowest the largest. Fig. 386.
11. FUSUS. Fusiform; no folds on the columella. Fig. 387.
12. PYRULA. Pear-shaped. Fig. 388 to 390.
13. STRUTHIOLARIA. Outer lip thickened; sinuated. Fig. 391.
14. RANELLA. Two rows of varices; a canal at each extremity of the
aperture. Fig. 393, 394.
15. MUREX. Three or more rows of varices; only one distinct canal.
Fig. 395, 396.
16. TYPHIS. A tubular perforation between each varix. Fig. 397.
17. TRITON. Varices not in rows. Fig. 398 to 401.
CANCELLARIA. Auct. (From _Cancellatus_, cross-barred, like window
frames or net work.) _Fam._ Canalifera, Lam. Entomostomata, Bl.--Descr.
Oval, thick, cancellated; spire generally short, pointed; aperture
sub-ovate, emarginated anteriorly, pointed at the posterior extremity;
outer lip marked within by transverse ridges; inner lip spread over
part of the body whorl, terminating in a straight, thick, obtuse
columella, with several strong oblique folds. _Hab._ Indian Ocean,
Coast of Africa, America, and West Indies. Fossils found in London Clay
and Calc-grossier of Paris. Differing from Turbinellus in form and in
the transversely ribbed inside of the outer lip. Fig. 315. C.
reticulata.--_Obs._ The latest enumeration of the species of this genus
is contained in a catalogue published by Mr. G. B. Sowerby, senior,
accompanying the author's figures of the new species, amounting to 38,
in parts 9 to 13 of the Conchological Illustrations. The greater part
of these new species were brought to this country by Mr. Cuming.
CANCELLATED. (From _Cancellatus_, cross-barred.) Applied generally to
any shells which are marked by ridges crossing each other as
Cancellaria, fig. 385.
CANCILLA. Sw. A sub-genus of Mitræ, described as having "the whorls
crossed by transverse linear ribs; inner canal wanting, plates very
oblique; form slender; outer lip thin." _Ex._ M. Isabella, M. sulcata.
CANCRIS. Montf. CREPIDULINA, Bl. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
CANOPUS. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
CANTHAPLEURA. Guild. A genus composed of those species of Chiton, which
have the mantle rough, with moveable spines, prickles, or hairs. _Ex._
C. spinosus, fig. 227.
CANTHARIDUS. Montf. TROCHUS IRIS, Auct. and analogous species.
Elenchus, Humph.
CANTHARUS. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
CANTHIDOMUS. Sw. A sub-genus of Melanopsis, thus described: "spire
generally short; whorls coronated with spines, or marked with
longitudinal ribs; base obtuse. C. costata, Sow. Gen. f. 3." Melanopsis
costata, plates, fig. 315.
CANTHORBIS. Sw. A sub-genus of the sub-family Trochinæ, Sw. Described
as being "nearly disc-shaped: spire but slightly raised; the margin of
the body-whorl flattened, and serrated with flat spines; inner lip
united to the outer; pillar and aperture as in the last. (Tubicanthus.)
C. imperialis. Mart. 173. f. 1714." This sub-genus appears to include
those species of which De Montfort's genera Imperator and Calcar are
formed.
CANTHROPES. Montf. Described as resembling a Nautilus, with the whorls
increasing so gradually, that the dorsal edge of the aperture advances
but little beyond the last whorl. This genus is not mentioned by
Blainville or Lamarck.
CAPITULUM. Klein. POLLICIPES Mitellus, Lam. fig. 37*.
CAPRELLA. ----? PLEKOCHEILUS, Guild. AURICULA Caprella, Lam.
CAPRINA. D'Orb. DICERAS. Auct.?
CAPRINUS. Montf. (Conch. Syst. t. 2. p. 143.) The figure appears to be
intended to represent Helix Nux-denticulata.
CAPSA. Brug. _Fam._ Nymphacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Equivalve transverse,
subequilateral, subtrigonal; cardinal teeth, two in one valve, one
notched in the other; lateral teeth remote, obsolete; an external
ligament; two muscular impressions in each valve; a large sinus in the
muscular impression of the mantle.--_Obs._ This genus is so nearly
related to Donax, that it is difficult to distinguish it at first
sight. The Capsæ, however, have not the short, plain, straight,
posterior side, the distinct lateral teeth, nor the crenulated margins
which characterize nearly all the Donaces. They are found in the
British Channel, Brazil, and coast of Pacific Ocean. They are known
from Erycina by not having the pit in the hinge for the ligament. Fig.
109. C. Braziliensis.
CAPULUS. Montf. _Fam._ Calyptracea, Lam.--_Descr._ Obliquely conical,
posteriorly recurved; apex pointed, sub-spiral; aperture large,
rounded, oval; with two muscular impressions, lateral, meeting behind;
epidermis horny, rather velvetty. Britain, Mediterranean, West Indies,
California, Australia.
CARDIACEA. (Cardiacées, Lam.) A family of the order Conchifera
Dimyaria, Lam. Most of the genera of shells contained in this family
are included in the very extensive family of Conchacea, in the system
of De Blainville. They are described as having irregularly formed
cardinal teeth, generally accompanied by one or two elongated lateral
teeth. Most of the species are ventricose, and have regular radiating
ribs. This family contains the genera Cardium, Cardita, Cypricardia,
Hiatella, Isocardia, and others enumerated in the explanation of
figures 122 to 130. Their characters may be thus explained.
1. CARDIUM. Two cardinal and two lateral teeth in each valve,
including _Hemicardium_, _Papyridea_ and _Aphrodita_, in the last
of which the teeth are nearly obsolete. Fig. 122, 123, 123*, 123**.
2. VENERICARDIA. Two oblique cardinal teeth, one elongated;
including _Cardita_, which has the umbones nearly terminal.
_Pachymya_ may probably be included, but the hinge is not known.
Fig. 121, 124, and 130.
3. HIPPOPODIUM. One elongated cardinal tooth. Fig. 129.
4. MEGALODON. Hinge broad, septiform, with a large tooth in the
centre of one valve. Fig. 127.
5. ISOCARDIA. Teeth laminar; umbones spiral. Fig. 126.
6. CARDILIA. The same, with a septiform posterior laminar tooth.
7. HIPPAGUS. Shaped like Isocardia, without teeth. Fig. 128.
CARDILIA. Desh. _Fam._ Cardiacea, Lam. A genus formed for the reception
of Isocardia semi-sulcata, Lam. and a small fossil shell, which
Deshayes had formerly named Hemi-cyclonosta Michelini; thus described,
(translation) "shell oval, oblong, longitudinal, white, heart-shaped,
ventricose, with large prominent umbones; hinge with a small cardinal
tooth and a pit at the side; a spoon-shaped projection for the
reception of the internal ligament; anterior muscular impression
rounded, not deep; the posterior being upon a thin, horizontal lamina,
projecting in the anterior." Deshayes further remarks that although the
animal is unknown, the relations of the genus may be established by
means of the shell alone. Two families contain all the shells which
have the internal ligament inserted in a spoon-shaped projection; in
the one, that of the Anatinæ, the ligament is supported upon a little
bone, which is not soldered to the hinge; in the other, that of the
Mactraceæ, this little bone has no existence. In the former, all the
shells are inequivalve; in the latter equivalve. And M. Deshayes,
considering that the valves are equal, and that there is no separate
bone to the hinge, is of opinion that the genus ought to be placed near
the Lutrariæ, and not far from the Anatinæ. C. semisulcata, fig. 501,
2.
CARDINAL MARGIN. The edge of a bivalve shell on which the teeth is
placed.
CARDINAL TEETH. The teeth upon the hinge directly beneath the umbones
of a bivalve shell, as distinguished from the lateral teeth, which are
placed at a distance on each side. In Venus, fig. 119, the cardinal
teeth, are marked by the letter c.
CARDIOCARDITES. Bl. A genus separated from CARDITA, Auct. Thus
described (translation) "oval species, with the inferior margin nearly
straight, or a very little inflated, crenulated and completely closed.
_Ex._ La C. Ajar, Adans Seneg. pl. 16. fig. 2."
CARDISSA. _Sw._ A genus composed of those species of CARDIUM _Auct._
which are heart-shaped. _Ex._ C. dionæum, fig. 122. And C. Cardissa.
CARDITA. Brug. _Fam._ Cardiacea, _Lam._ Submytilacea, Bl.--_Descr._
Equivalve, inequilateral, ovate, subquadrate or oblong, marked
externally by ribs radiating from the umbones and terminating in a
crenulated margin on the inner surface; cardinal teeth in one valve,
one long, thick, oblique; another short, more straight; in the other
valve one long, oblique, thick. Muscular impressions two in each valve,
rather oval; palleal impression not sinuated.--_Obs._ This description
includes Lamarck's genus Venericardia, which, although consisting of
the more oblong species, is not considered sufficiently distinct to
justify the separation. Cypricardia is distinguished from this genus by
a remote lateral tooth. Mediterranean, Africa, East Indies, &c. Cardita
calyculata, fig. 124.
CARDIUM. Auct. _Fam._ Cardiacea, Lam. Conchacea, Bl.--_Descr._
Equivalve, sub-equilateral, sometimes gaping posteriorly, ornamented on
the outside by ribs radiating from the umbones; cardinal teeth, two in
each valve, locked into each other crosswise, lateral teeth, two in
each valve, remote; muscular impressions, two in each valve; palleal
impression entire. Ligament external, inflated.--_Obs._ Although this
genus includes many remarkable forms, the characters are so easily
defined that there is no difficulty in distinguishing it from any other
genus. C. angulatum, fig. 123. C. Groenlandicum, fig. 123*. APHRODITA,
Lea. C. Hemicardium, fig. 123**. fig. 122. C. Dionæum. It is somewhat
surprising that this genus, which contains some of the most beautiful
forms of bivalve Testacea, should have been left till quite lately
without any attempt to revise the species and settle the synonyms. The
author of this Manual has endeavoured to remedy this defect by
publishing a catalogue of all the species hitherto known, which amount
to 97, including many new species described by him in the "Proceedings
of the Zoological Society," in 1840. Parts 46 to 51, 149 and 150, and
177 to 184 of his Conchological Illustrations contain figures of 60
species. Cardia are frequent in all climates.
CARINARIA. Auct. _Class_, Cephalopoda. _Division_, Monothalamia, Lam.
_Fam._ Nectopoda, Bl.--_Descr._ Symmetrical or nearly so, conical,
thin, glassy, fragile, patelliform; with a fimbriated dorsal keel; apex
convolute, bent forwards; aperture oval, pointed at the dorsal
extremity. _Hab._ Amboyna, Indian Ocean, and Mediterranean Sea.--_Obs._
A most singular and beautiful shell, remarkable for its transparency,
its fragile structure, and the dorsal keel, whence it derives its name.
It was once so rare that a single specimen was known to realize one
hundred guineas. Fig. 488. C. Mediterranea.
CARINATED. (From _Carina_, a keel.) Applied to any shell having a
raised, thin ledge, passing round a whorl or any other part of a shell,
as in Carinaria, fig. 488.
CARINEA. Sw. A genus formed for the reception of OVULUM gibbosum, Auct.
and similar species, fig. 443.
CARINELLA. Adanson. LUTRARIA papyracea, Lam. LIGULA, Leach. _Fam._
Mactracea, Lam. Fig. 77.
CARINIDEA. Sw. A sub-genus of the genus Canthorbis, Sw. (Turbo.) thus
described, "Imperforate; spire pyramidal, acute; basal whorl concave
beneath, and carinated round its circumference; aperture oval, entire,
slightly angulated at the base of the pillar, which turns inwards. C.
concavus, Martini, 168, fig. 1620, brevispinosus? Sow. Gen. (Turbo,)
fig. 1."
CAROCOLLA. Auct. _Fam._ Colimacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Orbicular, depressed,
with the outer sides of the whorls angulated or keeled, whorls few;
peritreme reflected; columella contiguous to the axis; epidermis
thin.--_Obs._ This genus differing from Helix only in the whorls being
angulated, is hardly distinct enough from the latter to justify the
separation. In De Ferrusac's system these species constitute the
division Helicigona, of the genus Helix. C. Lamarckii, fig. 277. East
and West Indies, Philippines, South America and Europe.
CARTILAGE. See LIGAMENT.
CARYCHIUM. Müll. _Fam._ Auriculacea, Bl. Colimacea, Lam.--_Descr._
Oblong or cylindrical, with gradually increasing whorls, few in number;
aperture straight, short, with a fold on the columella.--_Obs._ This
genus of minute land shells differs from Auricula chiefly in the soft
parts. De Furrusac enumerates three species, C. Lineatum, C.
Corticaria, (_Odostomia_, Flem.) and C. Minimum, fig. 301. De
Blainville places it in his genus Auricula, as "species with two folds
and a posterior tooth on the columella," giving a figure of A. Mysotis
as his example, and quoting the name Phitia, Gray. Europe.
CASSIDARIA. Lam. (From Cassis) _Fam._ Purpurifera, Lam. Entomostomata,
Bl.--_Descr._ Oval, ventricose, spirally grooved and tuberculated, with
a short turrited spire and a large aperture, terminating anteriorly in
a recurved canal; outer lip thickened, reflected, undulated or
denticulated; inner lip expanded over a part of the body whorl and the
columella, with part of its lower edge free.--_Obs._ The recent species
of this genus are not numerous; the few fossil species occur in the
tertiary strata. C. carinata is found in Calc-grossier and London Clay.
In general form this resembles CASSIS, but is at once distinguished by
the canal, which does not turn abruptly back, but is slightly curved
upwards. ONISCIA (C. Oniscus, &c. Lam.) is distinguished by the
shortness of the canal, and the granulated surface of the inner lip.
Fig. 407. C. Echinophora. Mediterranean.
CASSIDEA. Sw. (from Cassis.) A genus composed of those species of the
genus CASSIS, Auct. which have the "aperture wide; outer lip never
broad or flattened, but sometimes slightly inflected; inner lip
spreading, but never dilated or detached beyond the base into a
prominent rim." East Indies. Ex. C. Glauca, fig. 411.
CASSIDULA. Humph. PYRULA, Auct.
CASSIDULINA. D'Orbigny. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
CASSIS. (A helmet.) _Fam._ Purpurifera, Lam. Entomostomata,
Bl.--_Descr._ Oval or triangular, ventricose, thick, generally
tuberculated, with a short varicose spire; aperture long, sometimes
narrow, with the outer lip thickened and reflected, generally
denticulated; the inner lip spread over the surface of the body whorl,
indented and incrassated at its inner edge; canal turned suddenly over
the back of the shell. _Hab._ Seas of tropical climates. The fossil
species are rare, occurring in the tertiary strata.--_Obs._ The large,
common species of this well known genus are used for shell cameos and
as ornaments on chimney pieces, grottos, &c. and are remarkable for the
triangular disc, presented by the inner lip, which, in many species, is
thickened and spread over the front of the body whorl and the angulated
outer lip. The smaller, more rounded species, which have widened
apertures, have been separated by Swainson, under the generic name
CASSIDEA. The C. rufa, coarctata, &c. are formed by Mr. Stutchbury into
a new genus under the name CYPRÆCASSIS, for reasons which will be
stated under the word. Cassidaria is distinguished by the gradual curve
of the canal. Fig. 410 is Cassis tuberosa, diminished.
CASTALIA. Lam. _Fam._ Trigonées, Lam.--_Descr._ Fluviatile, equivalve,
inequilateral, trigonal, with corroded umbones; hinge with two laminar,
transversely striated teeth, one of which is posterior, remote from the
umbones, short, divided, the other anterior, elongated; epidermis
thick; internal surface pearly. Lamarck, in describing this shell,
states, that he regards it as intermediate between Trigonia and Unio.
It should, however, certainly have been placed in the family of
"Nayades," and perhaps should form a part of the genus UNIO itself. C.
ambigua, Lam. fig. 140. South America.
CATILLUS. Brong. (A little dish.) INOCERAMUS, Sow.
CATOPHRAGMUS. Sow. (From [Greek: Katô], _beneath_; [Greek: phragmos] _a
place_ _paled in_.) _Order_, Sessile Cirripedes, Lam.--_Descr._ Light
principal valves, cemented side by side in a circle; eight small
pointed valves beneath, covering the joints of the upper circle, and
numerous still smaller valves forming the base of the shell; operculum,
four valves.--_Obs._ This is the only genus of Sessile Cirripedes,
consisting of eight principal valves, excepting Octomeris, which is
destitute of the accessary pieces from which the genus derives its
name. Fig. 23. C. imbricatus. South Africa.
CAUDAL CANAL. The elongated hollow process which terminates the
aperture anteriorly of some univalve shells. For instance, Murex
Haustellum, fig. 396, has an elongated caudal canal.
CELLANTHUS. Montf. VORTICIALIS, Bl. A genus of microscopic
Foraminifera.
CELLULACEA. Bl. The second order of Cephalophora, Bl. consisting of
doubtful microscopic bodies, with a number of variously arranged
shells, as distinguished from the true Polythalamia, Bl. or chambered
shells. See FORAMINIFERA.
CEMORIA. Flemingii. Leach. A small patelliform shell, differing from
Fissurella, in having the fissure placed behind the apex, which is
produced, pointed and incurved. It is the Patella Fissurella, Müll.
Patella Noachina, Chemn. F. Noachina, Sow. Puncturella, Lowe. Fig. 244.
Cemoria Flemingii. Scotland and Tierra del Fuego.
CENTRAL. A term used to indicate the position of the muscular
impression of a bivalve shell when it is near the centre of the inner
surface. It is also applied to the siphon perforating the septum of a
chambered shell when it is placed near the centre of the plate.
_Sub_-central is also used as a comparative term, to indicate the
position of the siphon, or of the muscular impression, is _near_ the
centre. Thus in Placuna (fig. 184), the muscular impression is central:
in Exogyra (fig. 183), it is _sub_-central.
CEPA. Humph. ANOMIA, Linn.
CEPHALOPHORA. Bl. The first class of Malacozoæ, Bl. Divided into:
_Order_ 1. Cryptodibranchiata; 2. Cellulacea; 3. Polythalamacea. The
first consisting of Cuttle-fish, &c. which are destitute of shells; the
second composed of those microscopic cellular bodies, which are
regarded as shells by some authors; and the third containing the true
chambered shells.
CEPHALOPODA. Lam. (Cephalopodes.) ([Greek: Kephalê], _kephale_, head;
[Greek: pous], [Greek: podos], _podos_, foot.) The fourth order of the
_class_ Mollusca, Lam. containing molluscs, which are characterized by
having a series of arms surrounding the head, which is placed above a
sack-shaped body. This order is divided into Polythalamia, or
many-chambered shells; Monothalamia, or single-chambered cephalopods;
and Sepiaria, or cuttle-fish. Fig. 463 to 488.
CEPOLIS. Montf. Belonging to the genus HELIX, Auct.
CERATODES. Guild. ([Greek: Keratôdês], like a horn.) A genus composed
of the flat, orbicular species of AMPULLARIA, Auct. which present so
near a resemblance to the Planorbes, as to have been considered as
belonging to them. Planorbis has, however, a horny texture, and no
operculum, and it is always reversed, which may be observed by placing
the spire upwards. Fig. 320, represents Ampullaria (Ceratodes)
Cornu-arietis.
CERIPHASIA. Sw. A sub-genus of Melanianæ, thus described, "Cerithiform;
outer lip thin, dilated at the base; aperture small, slightly
emarginate, without any internal groove; inner lip thin. C. sulcata,
Sw. fig. 38. p. 204." (Sw. Lard. Cyclop. Malac. p. 342.)
CERITHIUM. Brug. _Fam._ Canalifera, Lam. Entomostomata, Bl.--_Desc._
Elongated, ribbed, tuberculated, or rarely smooth, with a lengthened,
turrited, pointed, pyramidal spire, consisting of numerous whorls;
aperture sub-quadrate, terminated anteriorly by a tortuous canal; outer
lip thickened, sometimes reflected, expanded; inner lip thickened
posteriorly; operculum horny, spiral, with numerous whorls.--_Obs._ The
fresh-water shells described as Cerithia by Lamarck, are separated
under the name Potamis, and may be known by the thick, horny epidermis.
Triphora, Desh. has the canal closed, except at the extremities.
Cerithium Telescopium, does not appear to present the same characters
as the other Cerithia, and has been separated by some writers under the
generic name Telescopium. Cerithium Aluco, fig. 372. Mediterranean,
East and West Indies, Coasts of the Pacific, Gallapagos, Australia, &c.
Some small species are British. Fossils are numerous in the tertiary
beds.
CERVICOBRANCHIATA. Bl. The second order of Paracephalophora
Hermaphrodita, Bl. containing symmetrical patelliform shells, divided
into the families Retifera and Branchifera.
CETOCIS. Montf. _Fam._ Orthocerata, Lam. and Bl. Placed by De
Blainville in his section of Belemnites, characterized as having small
folds at the apex. _Ex._ B. Penicillatus.
CETOPIRUS. Ranz. CORONULA BALÆNARIS, Auct. fig. 16.
CHAMA. Auct. _Fam._ Chamacea, Lam. and Bl.--_Descr._ Inequivalve,
irregular, thick, foliaceous, attached by the umbo of the lower and
larger valve. External ligament placed in a groove, following the curve
of the umbones. Umbones spiral, coiled round on the back of the valves;
hinge with a thick, crenated, lengthened tooth, in one valve, entering
a corresponding cavity in the hinge margin of the other; muscular
impressions, two in each valve, distinct, lateral.--_Obs._ The Linnæan
genus Chama, included the beautiful shells now called Tridacna. These
are exceedingly different from the true Chama, being regular and
unattached. The Chama (Tridacna) gigas, when at its full age and
development, is the largest shell known. Specimens have occurred
weighing upwards of 500 lbs., and measuring two feet across. Diceras
may be known from Chama by the spiral horns into which the umbones are
produced; Isocardia, by the regularity of the shells, and it is hardly
necessary to mention Spondylus, which may be known by the triangular
disc between the umbones; Cleidothærus, Stutch. which resembles Chama
in general form, has a separate bony appendage attached to the hinge,
and may, moreover, be distinguished by its elongated muscular
impression. Fig. 153, C. Lazarus. E. and W. Indies.
CHAMACEA. Bl. The seventh family of the order Lamellibranchiata, Bl.
containing the genera Chama, Diceras, Etheria, Tridacna, Isocardia and
Trigonia.
CHAMACEA. Lam. A family belonging to the order Conchifera Dimyaria,
Lam. described as inequivalve, attached, irregular; with or without a
single rough tooth on the hinge; with two lateral muscular impressions
in each valve. This family contains the genera--
1. CHAMA. Leafy; umbones spiral. Fig. 153.
2. ETHERIA. Very irregular, pearly, without teeth. Fig. 155.
3. DICERAS. Like Chama, but the umbones free, produced. Fig. 154.
CHAMBERED. When the cavity of a shell is not continuous, but is divided
by shelly diaphragms or septa, it is said to be chambered. This is the
case with the shells of the Polythalamous Cephalopoda, as in the
Nautilus (see Introduction). The character is not confined to these, as
it occurs in some species of Spondyli, and in several turrited
univalves.
CHAMOSTRÆA. De Roissy. CLEIDOTHÆRUS. Stutch.
CHARYBS. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
CHELIBS. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
CHELINOTUS. Sw. A genus of "HALIOTIDÆ," Sw. including Velutina, Lam. a
species of Sigaretus from Tonga, and Coriocella, Bl. Thus described,
"Animal cheloniform, broad; depressed; the mantle larger than the
shell, lobed in front; tentacula two, short, obtuse; eyes basal; mouth
circular; shell ear-shaped, thin, fragile, imperforate; pillar none."
CHELONOBIA. Leach. CORONULA Testudinaria, Auct. Fig. 15.
CHERSINA. Humph. ACHATINA, Lam.
CHICOREUS. Montf. A generic division of the genus MUREX, consisting of
such species as have three ramified varices. _Ex._ M. inflatus, fig.
395.
CHILINA. Gray. _Fam._ Auriculacea, Bl. Colimacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Oval,
thin, covered with an olive green epidermis; spire rather short,
consisting of few whorls; aperture large, oval, rounded anteriorly;
outer lip thin, joining the inner lip without a sinus; inner lip spread
over part of the body whorl, terminating in a thick columella with one
or two folds.--_Obs._ These shells differ from the true Auriculæ in the
thinness of the outer lip. C. Dombeyana (Auricula Dombeyana, Auct.)
Fig. 300. The illustrated catalogue published by the author (Sow.
Conch. illustr. parts 135, 136) contains 13 species. Rivers of South
America.
CHILOTREMA. Leach. A sub-genus of HELIX, containing Helix lapicida,
Auct. Gray, Turton, p. 140.
CHIMOTREMA. ----? Belongs to HELIX.
CHIONE. Megerle. CYTHERÆA maculosa, (fig. 117, c.) sulcata, circinata,
&c. Auct. and other similar species.
CHIRONA. Gray. A genus of Balanidæ, the shells consisting of six
parietal valves and two opercular valves; the upper edges of the
parietal valves are sloped and the structure is not tubular.
CHISMOBRANCHIATA. Bl. The second order of the first section of
Paracephalophora Monoica, Bl. Those Mollusca belonging to this order
which have shells, have them either internal or external, but always
scutiform, with depressed spires and wide, haliotoid, oblique
apertures, without a columellar lip properly so called. This order
partly answers to the family MACROSTOMATA, in the system of Lamarck. It
contains the genera Coriocella, Sigaretus, Cryptostoma, Oxinoe,
Stomatella and Velutina.
CHITON. Auct. ([Greek: chiton], an integument.) _Fam._ Phyllidiana,
Lam. _Class_, Polyplaniphora, Bl.--_Descr._ Oval, consisting of eight
arched valves arranged in a series across the body of the animal and
fixed in the skin which forms a rim around them, sometimes scaly,
spinose, or rugose, sometimes smooth.--_Obs._ The genus Chiton,
commonly called "Coat of Mail," from its resemblance to jointed armour,
remains to the present day in exactly the same state with regard to its
boundaries as that in which Linnæus found it, and in which he left it.
That illustrious Naturalist placed it among the multivalves in his
purely Conchological system, although the animal is totally different
from the Cirripedes. The shells are prettily marked, and are found
attached to the rocks in all seas of Tropical and Southern climates,
but fossil species are almost unknown. Fig. 227, C. Spinosus. The genus
is divided by Guilding into Chiton, Canthopleura, Phakellopleura,
Chitonellus and Cryptoconchus. Zool. Journ. XVII. p. 27. The author of
this manual has lately attempted a revision of this interesting but
neglected genus, and has given a catalogue of all the species hitherto
known, as far as they could be identified among the confused mass of
synonyms and descriptions to be found in the works of various
Conchological writers. This catalogue is to be found in his
Conchological Illustrations, and refers to figures of 102 species, 92
of which are contained in parts 38 to 45, and 159 to 176.
CHITONELLUS. Lam. (From _Chiton_) Separated by Lamarck from Chiton, on
account of the valves being placed at a greater distance from each
other, the soft integument of the animal intervening. Fig. 228, C.
striatus. Philippines.
CHLOROSTOMA. Sw. A sub-genus of "Trochinæ." Sw. (Trochus) of which C.
argyrostoma is given as an example. Sw. Lard. Cyclop. p. 350.
CHONDRUS. Hartmann. ABIDA, Leach. A genus formed for the reception of
PUPA secale, Drap. Pupa Juniperi, Montague, which have plaits in the
aperture.
CHRYSOAR. Montf. Probably a species of ORTHOCERAS.
CHRYSODOMUS. Swains. "Distinguished from Fusus, by the comparative
shortness of the basal channel, and the ventricose or enlarged shape of
the body whorl. The beautiful orange-mouthed Whelk of England is a
typical example; and the few others now known are all of a very large
size, and chiefly found in Northern Seas, where they represent the more
elegant Fusi of tropical latitudes; the outer lip is always thin and
smooth." Sw. page 90, paragraph 78, described at page 308.
CHRYSOLUS. Montf. POLYSTOMELLA, Bl. A genus of microscopic
Foraminifera.
CHRYSOSTOMA. Sw. A genus of the family "Rotellinæ," Sw. Thus described
"Shell turbinate; the whorls few and convex; aperture effuse, round;
inner lip thickened just over, and almost concealing the umbilicus.
Nicobaricus, Martini, 182 fig. 1822-5." Sw. Lard. Cyclop. Malac. p.
327.
CHTHALAMUS. Ranz. _Fam._ Balanidea, Bl. Order, Sessile Cirripedes,
Lam.--_Descr._ "Shell much depressed, valves thick, thickened at the
base, with prominent areas; operculum nearly horizontal, composed of
four valves."--_Obs._ This description would apply generically to the
shell called Platylepas in the British Museum, only nothing is said
about the prominent plates jutting from the internal surface of the
valves. The difference between this genus and BALANUS consists
principally in the horizontal position of the operculum, and general
flatness of the shell. C. stellatus, fig. 18.
CIBICIDES. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
CIDARIS. Swains. A genus composed of TURBO Smaragdus, petholatus, and
other similar species. The word Cidaris is, however, already in use for
a genus of Echinæ.
CIDAROLLUS. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
CILIATED. (ciliæ, hairs.) Having minute hairs as in Orbicula, Lingula,
&c. and the jointed feelers of the Cirripedes.
CIMBER. Montf. NAVICELLA, Auct.
CINERAS. Leach. (_Cinereus_, ash-coloured.) _Order_, Pedunculated
Cirripedes, Lam.--_Descr._ Animal with a quadrilateral body, supported
on a fleshy peduncle, with an opening in front of the upper part for
the passage of a bunch of ciliated tentacula. Immediately above this
aperture is a pair of small elongated valves, placed in a nearly
horizontal position; at the lower part is another tripartite pair
placed perpendicularly, one on each side, and a narrow, angulated,
keel-shaped piece placed at the back.--_Obs._ The nearest approach to
this genus is Otion. (C. Vittatus, fig. 42.) Found upon substances
floating in the sea.
CINEREOUS. (_Cinereus_) Ash-coloured.
CINGULA. Fleming. RISSOA, Leach.
CIONELLA. Jeffreys. _Fam._ Colimacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Oblong or
elongated; last whorl large; apex rather acute; columella,
sub-interrupted; aperture canaliculated, sub-effuse at the base;
margins very unequal; no umbilicus. BULINUS octonus, lubricus, acicula,
&c. Auct. C. lubrica, fig. 285.
CIRCE. Schum. VENUS castrensis, fig. 117 d. V. sulcatina, arabica,
pectinata, Auct. and other similar species.
CIRRIPEDES. Lam. The tenth class of invertebrated animals, so named
from the curled and ciliated branchia which protrude from the oval
aperture of the shells. The class Cirripedes of Lamarck constitutes the
entire genus _Lepas_ of Linnæus. They are divided into two sections;
first, Sessile Cirr. attached by the basal portion of the shell;
second, Pedunculated Cirr. supported upon a Peduncle. Figs. 14 to 45.
CIRROBRANCHIATA. Bl. The first order of Paracephalophora Hermaphrodita,
Bl. This order has been formed for the purpose of giving a place in the
system to the genus Dentalium. The animal of which has lungs,
consisting of numerous filaments, having their basal origin in two
radical lobes under the neck.
CIRRUS. J. Sowerby (cirrus, a tendril.) _Fam._ Turbinacea, Bl. and
Lam.--_Descr._ Spiral, conical, with a hollow axis; whorls contiguous,
numerous, rounded, or slightly angulated.--_Obs._ This fossil genus
resembles Trochus, from which it is known by the deep funnel-shaped
umbilicus. Fig. 349, C. nodosus.
CISTULA. Humph. CYCLOSTOMA, Lam.
CLANCULUS. Montf. TROCHUS _Pharaonis_, Lam.--_Obs._ This, with several
other species, belong more properly to MONODONTA, Lam. ODONTIS, Sow.
Fig. 361.
CLATHODON. Conrad. GNATHODON, Gray.
CLAUSILIA. Drap. (_Clausium_, a valve or folding door.) _Fam._
Colimacea, Lam. Limacinea, Bl.--_Descr._ Spire elongated, consisting of
many volutions; aperture small, sub quadrate, having several
tooth-shaped folds on the columella. A small, elastic, shelly plate,
attached to the columella within, called the Clausium, its office being
to enclose the aperture when the animal has retired within the
shell.--_Obs._ This last character distinguishes it from the Pupæ, to
some of which it bears a very near resemblance. _Hab._ Land, in the
central and southern parts of Europe, several British species. Fig.
295, C. Macascarensis.
CLAUSIUM. A name applied to the beautiful contrivance whence the genus
Clausilia derives its name, consisting of a little bony tortuous plate,
placed in a groove on the columella. Here it serves the purpose of a
door, which, when not prevented by counteracting pressure, springs
forward on its elastic ligament, and encloses the animal in his
retirement. The aperture is opened by pushing back the clausium into
the groove.
CLAUSULUS. Montf. Conch. Syst. 1, 179. A genus of microscopic
Foraminifera.
CLAVA. Humph. CERITHIUM, Lam.
CLAVAGELLA. Lam. (_Clava_, a club.) _Fam._ Tubicolæ, Lam. Pyloridea,
Bl.--_Descr._ Two irregular flattish valves, one fixed or soldered, so
as to form part of the side of an irregular shelly tube; the other free
within the tube near the base.--_Obs._ The shells composing this genus
are found in stones, madrepores, &c. and appear to form the connecting
link between Aspergillum, which has both valves cemented into the tube;
and Fistulana, in which both are free. Fig. 45, a fossil Clavagella.
Found recent on the Coast of Malta and New South Wales.
CLAVALITHES. Sw. A genus composed of some fossil shells, separated from
the genus Fusus, which, having the general form of Turbinella Rapa, &c.
are considered by Swainson, as holding an intermediate station between
Fusus and the Turbinellidæ.--_Descr._ "Unequally sub-fusiform; the body
whorl, and spire, being conic; and the canal suddenly contracted and
attenuated; terminal whorls papillary; inner lip thick; pillar smooth,
C. longævus, clavellatus, Noæ, ponderosus, Sw."--_Obs._ The papillary
spire may form a sufficient reason for separating this genus from
Fusus, while the absence of plates on the columella places them at a
still greater distance from Turbinella.
CLAVATE. When one extremity of the shell is attenuated, and the other
becomes suddenly ventricose or globular, it is said to be Clavate.
_Ex._ Murex Haustellum, fig. 396.
CLAVATULA. Lam. The generic name by which Lamarck originally
distinguished those species of Pleurotoma which were remarkable for the
shortness of their canals. In his system, however, they are re-united
to Pleurotoma. Fig. 381, P. Strombiformis.
CLAVICANTHA. Sw. A genus separated from Pleurotoma, Lam. consisting of
species, which are described as "thick, sub-fusiform; the surface
rugose, and the whorls sub-coronated; channel short; slit assuming the
form of a short, broad sinus. C. imperialis, E. M. 440, spirata, E. M.
440, fig. 5, conica, E. M. 439, fig. 9, echinata, E. M. 439, fig. 8,
Auriculifera, E. M. 439, fig. 10."
CLAVICLE. (_clavis_, a key.) A little key. This term is applied to the
bony appendage in the hinge of some species of Anatina, (those included
in the generic term Lyonsia) Cleidothærus, Myochama, &c.
CLAVULINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
CLAVUS. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
CLEIDOTHÆRUS. Hutch. ([Greek: Thairos], hinge, [Greek: Kleis],
clavicle.) _Fam._ Chamaceæ or Myariæ, Lam.--_Descr._ Inequivalve,
irregular, solid, attached; with one cardinal, conical tooth in the
free valve, entering a corresponding indenture in the other; and an
oblong shelly appendage, fixed by an internal cartilage in a groove
under the umbones; muscular impressions, two in each valve, one
elongated, the other uniform.--_Obs._ This shell is like Chama in
general form, but is distinguished by the clavicle or shelly appendage
from which its name is derived. Fig. 75. New South Wales.
CLEODORA. _Per. et Les. Fam._ Pteropoda, Lam. Thecosomata,
Bl.--_Descr._ Thin, transparent, pyramidal, with flat alate sides, and
oval aperture. Fig. 221, C. cuspidata.
CLISIPHONITES. Montf. Microscopic. LENTICULINA, Bl.
CLITHON. Montf. NERITINA Corona, spinosa, &c. Auct. fig. 325.
CLITIA. Leach. _Fam._ Balanidea, Bl. _Order_, Sessile Cirripedes,
Lam.--_Descr._ Sub-conical, compressed, consisting of four unequal
valves, two larger and two smaller, joined together side by side, by
the interlocking of their dentated edges, a process somewhat like that
which joiners call dove-tailing. Operculum, consisting of two unequal
pointed valves.--_Obs._ Clitia is known from Creusia, by the
articulations of the valves, and by the operculum, which in Creusia
consists of four valves. Fig. 20. C. Verruca, (Lepas Verruca, Gmelin.)
Britain and Peru.
CLOSE. The margins of a bivalve shell are described as being close,
when there is no hiatus between them in any part, otherwise they are
described as _gaping_.
CLOTHO. Faujas. _Fam._ Conchacea, Bl. More properly belonging to the
Pyloridea, Bl.; and the Lithophagidæ, Lam.--_Descr._ "Oval, nearly
regular, longitudinally striated, equivalve, sub-equilateral; hinge
consisting of a bifid tooth, curved like a crochet, larger in one valve
than in the other." This description is translated from Blainville, who
states that he has never seen the shell. Annales du Museum D'Histoire
Naturelle, tom. 9, pl. 17, fig. 4-6.
CLYPEIFORM. (_Clypeus_, a shield.) Open, flat, shaped like a shield or
buckler, as Umbrella, fig. 233, and Parmophorus, fig. 242.
CLYPIDELLA. Sw. A sub-genus of Fissurella, described as having one
extremity of the shell slightly raised. C. pustula. Sow. Gen. fig. 3.
COAT OF MAIL. A common name given to shells of the genus Chiton, on
account of their resemblance to jointed armour.
COBRESIA. Hübner. VITRINA, Auct.
COCHLIATE. (_Cochleare_, a spoon). Applied to any shell or part which
is hollow and oval, as Patellæ, &c. The cavity containing the cartilage
in Mya, fig. 71, is Cochleate.
COCHLICELLA. One of the sub-genera into which De Ferrusac has divided
the genus Helix, consisting of Bulinus decollatus, fig. 279, and
similar species. See Helix.
COCHLICOPA. Fer. A sub-genus of Helix, partly corresponding with
Polyphemus of De Montfort, and consisting of species of Achatina, which
have the outer lip undulated.
COCHLITOMA. Fer. A sub-genus of Helix, corresponding with the genus
Achatina, Auct. not including those with undulated outer lips.
COCHLODINA. Fer. A sub-genus of Helix, including the genus Clausilia,
Auct.
COCHLODONTA. Fer. A sub-genus of Helix, containing Pupa Uva, Auct. &c.
COCHLOGENA. Fer. A sub-genus of Helix, containing pupiform shells, such
as Azeca tridens, fig. 290.
COCHLOHYDRA. Fer. A sub-genus of Helix, composed of the genus Succinea,
Auct.
COCHLOSTYLA. Fer. A sub-genus of Helix, composed of the genus Bulinus,
Auct.
COLIMACEA. Lam. This Family, of the order Trachelipoda, Lam. includes
all land shells, which might with propriety be divided into three
sections, the first of which contain the following well-known genera:--
1. SUCCINEA. Oval, transparent, oblique; animal amphibious. Fig.
265, 266.
2. HELIX. The type of which is the common snail shell. The
separation of _Carocolla_, on account of the angulated whorls, or
that of _Geotrochus_, on account of the turbinated shape, cannot be
well maintained. Fig. 264, 267, 268, 273 to 276, 278 to 281, 294.
3. ANOSTOMA. The aperture turned up towards the spire. Fig. 271,
272.
4. STREPTAXIS. Whorls excentric. Fig. 269, 270.
5. BULINUS. Oval; aperture entire, including _Bulimulus_, _Balea_,
_Cionella_, _Azeca_. Fig. 282 to 285, 289, 290, 296.
6. ACHATINA. A notch terminating the columella. Fig. 286 to 288.
7. PUPA. Cylindrical; including _Vertigo_, _Alæa_, &c. Fig. 291 to
293.
8. CLAUSILIA. Cylindrical, with a clausium. Fig. 295.
_Obs._ The above are united in the system of De Ferrusac under the
generic name Helix, and divided into sub-genera as explained under
that word.
The next section, included in the family Auriculacea, Bl., contains
the genera Auricula, Chilina, Carychium, Marinula, Scarabæus, and
Partula. Fig. 297 to 302.
The third section contains the following genera of land shells with
opercula.
1. CYCLOSTOMA. Aperture round; operculum spiral. Fig. 303, 304.
2. NEMATURA. Last whorl contracted; operculum spiral. Fig. 305.
3. HELICINA. Aperture semi-lunar or angulated; operculum
concentric. Fig. 306, 307.
4. PUPINA. Shell polished; operculum concentric; aperture round.
Fig. 524.
5. STROPHOSTOMA. Aperture turned up towards the spire, like
Anostoma, but said to have an operculum. Only known fossil. Fig.
97.
COLUMBELLA. Auct. (Columba, a dove.) _Fam._ Columellata, Lam.--_Descr._
Thick, oval, or angular; with short spire, and long narrow aperture,
contracted in the centre, and terminating in a short canal; outer lip
thickened and dentated; inner lip irregularly crenated. Epidermis thin,
brown. Operculum very small, horny.--_Obs._ Those species of Mitra,
which resemble Columbella in shape, may easily be distinguished by the
plaits on the columella. The Columbellæ are marine, and few fossil
species are known. Fig. 430, C. Mercatoria. Swainson has divided this
genus into the following: _Columbella_, consisting of C. Mercatoria,
&c.; _Pusiostoma_, consisting of the Strombiform species;
_Crassispira_, which is most probably a Cerithium; _Nitidella_,
consisting of the smooth species; _Conidea_, consisting of the more
conical species; another set of the more conical species has been
removed from this family, and placed in that of the "Coninæ," but as
they are separated by no essential character, we suppose this has
merely been done for the purpose of completing the "circle" of the last
mentioned family, which otherwise would not have reached the required
number of five. Mediterranean, East and West Indies, South America,
Coast of California, Gallapagos, &c.
COLUMELLA. A solid column formed by the inner sides of the volutions of
a spiral univalve. It is sometimes described as the inner lip of the
aperture, of which it forms a part; but the term would be more properly
confined to that portion of the inner lip which is seen below the body
whorl, over which the remainder of the lip is frequently spread. All
the inner edge of the aperture, including that part of it which covers
the body whorl, is called the columellar lip. In fig. 431, the anterior
termination of the columella is indicated by the letter c. The axis, is
an imaginary line drawn strictly through the centre of the whorls,
whether their inner edges form a solid column or not.
COLUMELLAR LIP. The inner lip. See COLUMELLA.
COLUMELLATA. Lam. A family of the order Trachelipoda, Lam. containing
the following genera:--
1. MITRA. Elongated; aperture narrow; strong folds on the
columella; including _Mitrella_, _Mitreola_, _Tiara_, and
_Conohelix_. Fig. 431, 432.
2. MARGINELLA. Outer lip reflected; including _Volutella_,
_Persicula_, _Gibberula_, and _Glabella_. Fig. 437.
3. COLUMBELLA. Outer and inner lips denticulated or granulated.
Fig. 430.
4. VOLUTA. Outer lip thickened; folds on the columella; aperture
generally wide; apex papillary; including _Scaphella_, _Harpula_,
_Volutilithes_, _Cymbiola_. Fig. 433, 436.
5. MELO. Shell comparatively light; spire short, sometimes hidden;
apex round, spiral; folds on the columella laminar. Fig. 435.
6. CYMBA. Upper edge of the aperture separated from the body whorl
by a flat disc; apex mammillated, irregular; folds on the
columella. Fig. 434.
7. VOLVARIA. Cylindrical; aperture long, narrow; folds on the
columella; spire hidden. Fig. 439.
COLUS. Humphrey. FUSUS, Lam.
COMPLANARIA. Sw. A subgenus of ALASMODON (Unio), thus described, "shell
winged; the valves connate; the bosses very small and depressed;
cardinal teeth two or three; lateral teeth represented by irregular
grooves. C. gigas (Unio), Sow. Man. fig. 141. Alasmodon complanatus,
Say. C. rugosa, Sw."
COMPRESSED. Pressed together, or flattened. The application is the same
as in common use. A Patella may be described as a vertically compressed
cone. A Ranella, on account of the two rows of varices skirting the
whorls, appears, as it were, laterally compressed. A bivalve shell is
said to be compressed when it is flat, that is, when but a small cavity
is left in the deepest part when the valves are closed. Perhaps the
Placuna placenta, fig. 184, is the most remarkable instance of this.
CONCAMERATIONS. (_Con_, with, _camera_, a chamber.) A series of
Chambers joining each other, as in Nautilus, Spirula, &c.
CONCENTRIC. A term applied to the direction taken by the lines of
growth in spiral and other shells, (_longitudinal_ of some authors.)
Every fresh layer of shelly matter forms a new circle round an
imaginary line, drawn through the centre of the spiral cone, down from
the nucleus. When the edges of the successive layers are marked by any
external characters, the shell is said to be concentrically striated,
banded, grooved, costated, &c. A fine illustration of the latter is to
be seen in the Scalaria or Wentletrap, fig. 351, Lines, bands, ribs,
&c. in the opposite direction, (_transverse_ of some authors,) are
"radiating" in bivalves, as the ribs of Cardium, fig. 123, and "spiral"
in univalves, that is, following the direction of the whorls, as the
bands of colour in Pyramidella, fig. 342.
CONCHACEA. Bl. The eighth family of the order Lamellibranchiata, Bl.
The shells are described as follows: nearly always regular, valves
closed all round; apices curved towards the anterior; dorsal hinge
complete, with teeth and ligament; the latter external or internal,
short and thick; two distinct muscular impressions, united at the lower
part by a parallel impression, which is frequently sinuated at the
posterior. The genera described in this family are divided into three
sections. First, those which are regular, and have distant lateral
teeth, Cardium, Donax, Tellina, Lucina, Cyclas, Cyprina, Mactra, and
Erycina. Second, those which are regular, and have no distant lateral
teeth, Crassatella and Venus. Third, those which are irregular,
Venerupis, Coralliophaga, Clotho, Corbula, Sphænia, and Ungulina.
CONCHACEA. Lam. A family of Lamarck's order Conchifera Dimyaria.
Regular, unattached in general, closed at the sides. They are always
more or less inequilateral. The _Marine_ Conchacea are those which
inhabit the sea. The fluviatile Conchacea are those which are found in
rivers, ponds, &c. Each of these contain various genera, which may be
arranged as follows:--
_Fluviatile._
1. CYRENELLA. Three cardinal teeth; ligament long; shell thin. Fig.
114.
2. CYCLAS. Thin, oval; cardinal and lateral teeth; anterior side
shortest, including _Pera_.
3. PISIDIUM. The same, with the posterior side shortest. Fig. 112.
4. CYRENA. Thick; cardinal and lateral teeth. Fig. 113.
5. POTAMOPHILA. Two thick cardinal teeth. Fig 115.
_Marine._
1. CYPRINA. Two cardinal teeth, and one remote lateral tooth. Fig.
116.
2. VENUS. Three cardinal, no lateral teeth; including _Artemis_.
Fig. 118, 119, 119a.
3. CYTHEREA. Several cardinal teeth; one very short lateral tooth.
Fig. 117, 117_a_, 117_b_, 117_c_, 117d.
4. PULLASTRA. Cardinal teeth notched, otherwise like Venus. Fig.
120.
5. ASTARTE. Three cardinal teeth; ligament short. Fig. 110.
VENERICARDIA belongs to the Cardiacea.
CONCHIFERA. Lam. The 11th class of Invertebrata, consisting of all
those animals which have bivalve shells. Lamarck divides the class into
Dimyaria, which have two adductor muscles; and Monomyaria, which have
but one.
CONCHOLEPAS. Montf. (CONCHA, a shell; lepas, a stone or rock.) _Fam._
Purpurifera, Lam. Entomostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Oval, imbricated, thick;
with a very short spire and large oval patelliform aperture,
terminating anteriorly in a slight emargination; outer lip crenated,
with two produced points or teeth towards the anterior, inner lip
smooth, nearly flat, reflected over the last whorl, so as nearly or
entirely to cover it; operculum horny. Marine, only one species known,
from Peru.--_Obs._ This shell is placed near Patella by Lamarck, on
account of its large open aperture; but having a horny operculum, and
resembling Purpurea in other respects. Fig. 418. Concholepas Peruviana.
CONCHOTRYA. Gray. (_Concha_, a shell; [Greek: Truo], (_tryo_) to bore.)
_Order_, Pedunculated Cirripedes, Lam.--_Descr._ Five pieces, two pairs
ventral, one single; shaped like Pentelasmis. Found in holes.
CONCHYLIOMORPHITE. A term used by De Blainville to designate the cast
or model of a fossil shell, formed by a siliceous substance which has
entered or surrounded it when in a liquid state, and subsequently
become hardened into flint. The shell has afterwards decomposed or
fallen off by accident, leaving its external or internal characters to
be conjectured from the monumental impressions that remain.
CONCHYTA. Hupsch Mus. CALCEOLA, Lam.
CONE. A common name for shells of the genus Conus.
CONE. This mathematical term is used by conchologists in its utmost
latitude of signification to express a body, which in its formation,
commences in a small point, called the apex, and increases in width
towards the conclusion or base. It is applied to all shells, whether
the increase in width be gradual or sudden; or whether in its growth,
it takes a straight, oblique, curved, or spirally-twisted course. In
this sense, a bivalve would be described as a pair of rapidly
enlarging, oblique cones, and the aperture of every spiral shell would
be its base. But this phraseology being in disuse, it is only mentioned
here that it may be understood when occasionally met with.
CONELLA. Sw. A genus composed of species of the genus Columbella, Lam.
which have a conical form, and which, on that account, are considered
by Swainson as belonging to his family of Coninæ. Swains. Lardner.
Cyclop. Malac. described at p. 312. C. picata, Sw. fig. 17, a. p. 151.
CONFLUENT. A term applied to two parts of a shell when they gradually
flow into each other, as, for instance, the inner and outer lips of
Univalves when they pass into each other at the anterior extremity,
without the intervention of a notch or angle.
CONIA. Leach. _Fam._ Balanidea. _Order_, Sessile Cirripedes,
Lam.--_Descr._ Four rather irregular valves, of porous structure,
placed side by side, so as to form a circular cone, supported at the
base on a shelly plate, and closed at the aperture by an operculum
consisting of four valves in pairs. Distinguished from Creusia by its
porous structure and by its flat support; that of Creusia being
cup-shaped. Fig. 21, Conia porosa.
CONICAL. A term applied in the ordinary sense, and not as explained
above, under the word CONE.
CONIDEA. Sw. A genus separated from Columbella, Lam. thus described,
"Mitra shaped, fusiform; spire equal or longer than the aperture; the
whorls tumid; outer lip slightly gibbous above, contracted below;
margin not inflected; striated within; inner lip terminating in an
elevated ridge, but with the teeth obsolete. C. semipunctata,
(_Columbella_, Lam.) Mart. 44. fig. 465, 466." Africa.
CONILITES. _Fam._ Orthocerata, Lam. & Bl.--_Descr._ "Conical, straight
or slightly curved; having a thin external covering, independent of the
nut or alveole, which it contains. Alveole transversely chambered,
sub-separable." (Translated from Lam.)--_Obs._ The difference between
Belemnites and Conilites is that the external sheath of the latter is
thin, and not filled up with solid matter, from the point of the
alveole to the apex, as in the former. De Blainville places in this
genus the genera Thalamulus, Achelois and Antimomus, Montf. two of
which are figured, Knor. Sup. Fab. iv. fig. 1. 1. 8. 9. Conilites
Pyramidatus, fig. 470.
CONILITHES. Sw. A sub-genus of Coronaxis, Sw. (Coni, with coronated
whorls) thus described, "Conic; spire considerably elevated; the
aperture linear, C. antediluvianus, Sow. Gen. f. 1."
CONOHELIX. Sw. (_Conus and Helix._) The generic name given to those
species of Mitra which are conical in form. Fig. 432, C. marmorata.
CONOPLÆA. Say. _Order_, Sessile Cirripedes, Lam. A genus composed of
Balani, attached to the stems of Gorgonia, having their bases
elongated. _Ex._ fig. 27, Balanus Galeatus.
CONORBIS. Sw. A genus composed of species of CONUS, such as C.
dormitor, (Sowerby, gen. fig. 8) which have elevated spires and the
upper part of the outer lip deeply sinuated. Mr. Swainson considers
these fossil species as analogous to the Pleurotomæ. _Sw._ Lard.
Cyclop. Malac. p. 312.
CONOVULUM. A genus proposed by Lamarck, to include the small, conical
species of Auricula, which have the outer lip simple. This genus was
afterwards abandoned by the author. _Ex._ fig. 298, Auricula
coniformis.
CONTIGUOUS. (_Contingo_, to touch.) A term applied to the whorls of
spiral shells when they rest upon, or touch each other. This is the
case in a great majority of instances. When, on the contrary, there is
a space between the whorls, they are said to be non-contiguous,
detached, or free. Examples of non-contiguous whorls are to be seen in
Scalaria, fig. 351 (in this case, the distance between the whorls is
small), and in Crioceratites, fig. 482. A "_Columella contiguous to the
axis_," is when in the centre of the shell and takes the place of the
imaginary line which forms its axis.
CONTINUOUS. Carried on without interruption, as the siphon in Spirula,
the varices in Ranella, fig. 394, which, occurring in a corresponding
part of each whorl, form a continuous ridge.
CONULARIA. Miller. A genus of Orthocerata, described as conical,
straight, or nearly so, divided into chambers by imperforate septa;
aperture half closed; apex solid, obtuse; external surface finely
striated. Resembling Orthoceras, but wanting the siphon. Fig. 449.
CONUS. Auct. ([Greek: Kônos], a cone.) _Fam._ Enroulées, Lam.
Angyostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Conical, convolute, with a short spire,
consisting of numerous whorls; and narrow lengthened aperture,
terminating in a slight emargination at each extremity; outer lip thin;
epidermis thin; operculum small, pointed, horny.--_Obs._ This
well-known genus of shells is easily distinguished from any other, by
its conical form, its smooth columella, its narrow aperture, and thin
outer lip. The form of the spire varies from flat and even partially
concave, to a regular pyramidal cone; and the upper edges of the whorls
are rounded in some species, angulated in others, and in some are waved
or coronated. The variety of marking and the numerous delicate tints of
these shells have caused them to be highly appreciated by amateur
collectors; and many species, as the C. Ammiralis, or admiral; the C.
Gloria Maris, or Glory of the Sea; the C. Cedonulli ("I yield to
none"), and others, have always produced good prices in the markets. We
give figures of the principal forms, as expressed in the genera
proposed by De Montfort, of Rhombus, Hermes, Rollus and Cylinder, in
figures 459 to 462. Many new species were brought to this country by
Mr. Cuming, and are represented in parts 24, 25, 28, 29; 32, 33, 36,
37; 54, 55, 56, 57; 147, 148; 151 to 158 of the Conchological
Illustrations, by G. B. Sowerby, jun. See CORONAXIS, Swainson. The
cones are mostly tropical, some are found as far north as the
Mediterranean, and south as the Cape of Good Hope. The most beautiful
species are from the East and West Indies.
CONVOLUTÆ. (Enroulées, Lam.) A family of the 2nd section of the order
Trachelipoda, Lam. the genera of which may be distinguished as
follows:--
1. CYPRÆA. Lips thickened, inflected, with teeth; spire hidden,
including _Cypræovulum_, _Luponia_, _Trivia_. Fig. 444 to 450.
2. OVULUM. Lips thickened, inflected, with slight crenulations;
spire hidden. Fig. 440 to 443.
3. ERATO. Lips thickened, inflected; spire visible; a groove down
the back. Fig. 454.
4. TEREBELLUM. Cylindrical, open at the anterior extremity;
columella smooth; suture of the spire canaliculated. Fig. 451, 452.
5. OLIVA. Columella plaited, swelled into a varix at the anterior.
Fig. 457, 458.
6. ANCILLARIA. The same, but the suture of the spire covered with
enamel. Fig. 455, 456.
7. CONUS. Turbinated, numerous whorls; spire flat or short,
conical; columella smooth. Fig 459 to 462.
CONVOLUTE. (_Con_, together; _volvo_, to revolve). This term can be
strictly applied only to symmetrical shells, signifying that the
volutions are parallel to each other in a horizontal direction, as in
the Ammonites, &c.; but the term is also commonly used in describing
such shells as Conus, in which, the direction of the whorls being
scarcely oblique, the last whorl almost entirely covers those which
precede it. This is the case with Lamarck's family of Enroulées. Fig.
440 to 462.
CORALLIOPHAGA. Bl. CYPRICARDIA Coralliophaga, Lam.--_Descr._ Oval,
elongated, finely striated from the apex to the base, cylindrical,
equivalve, very inequilateral; umbones slightly raised and quite
anterior; hinge nearly the same in both valves; two small cardinal
teeth, one of which is bifid, placed before a kind of lammellated
tooth, beneath a very slender external ligament; two small, distant,
muscular impressions, united by a striated palleal impression, which is
strongly striated posteriorly.--_Obs._ This shell, which is found in
the empty holes of dead Lithodomi, in some instances conforming its
shape to its situation, differs from Cypricardia of Lamarck,
principally in its cylindrical form. C. Carditoidea, fig. 92.
Mediterranean and East Indies.
CORBICULA. Megerle. CYRENA, Lam.
CORBIS. Cuv. (_A basket._) _Fam._ Nymphacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Transverse,
oval, thick, ventricose, equivalve, sub-equilateral, free, cancellated,
with denticulated internal margins; hinge with two cardinal and two
lateral teeth in each valve; of the latter, one near and one remote
from the umbones; muscular impressions lunulate, two in each valve,
united by an entire palleal impression, without a sinus.--_Obs._ This
genus, of which only two or three recent species are known, resembles
many species of Venus and Cytherea in general form; but differs in
having lateral teeth, and in the palleal impressions which in all the
Veneres, &c. is sinuated. From Lucina it may be known, not only by its
oval form, but also by the muscular impressions, which, in Lucina are
produced into an elongated point; it will also be distinguished from
Tellina, by the want of a posterior fold in the valve, for which that
genus is remarkable. C. Fimbriata, fig. 101, is an inhabitant of the
Indian Ocean. Several fossil species are found in the recent
formations, above the chalk, at Grignon and Hauteville.
CORBULA. Brug. (_A little basket._) _Fam._ Corbulacea, Lam. Conchacea,
Bl.--_Descr._ Inequivalve, sub-equilateral, transverse, gibbose, not
gaping; cardinal tooth in each valve, conical, curved, prominent,
inserting its extremity into a pit in the opposite hinge; cartilage
attached to the tooth of the smaller valve, and the pit in the larger;
muscular impressions, two in each valve, distant, rather irregular;
palleal impression posteriorly angulated.--_Obs._ The shells composing
this genus were placed in Mya by Linnæus, but differ from the true Myæ
in having a sinus in the palleal impression, and a prominent
ligamentiferous tooth in each valve, whereas the Myæ have but one. The
Corbulæ are marine, some species inhabiting the British coasts. Fossil
species occur abundantly in green sand, London clay, crag, and
corresponding formations. Fig. 89. C. Nucleus.
CORBULACEA. (Corbulées, Lam.) A family of the order Conchifera
Dimyaria, Lam., containing the genera--
1. CORBULA, with a prominent curved tooth. The Fresh-water species
has been separated under the name _Potamomya_. Fig. 89.
2. PANDORA. Thin, pearly, no teeth. Fig. 90.
CORDIFORM. (_Cor_, a heart.) Heart-shaped, a term applied generally to
any shell which may be fancied to resemble a heart in shape, as
Isocardia, fig. 126, and Cardium Dionæum, fig. 122.
CORIACEOUS. (_Corium_, leather.) Of the substance of leather. _Ex._,
the integument into which the valves of Chitones are inserted.
CORIOCELLA. Bl. The animal designated by this name is described by De
Blainville as being without any traces of shell, either internal or
external. This must have arisen from the imperfection of the specimen
described, probably deprived by accident of its shell. The testaceous
appendage of the Coriocella is now well known to naturalists. It is a
milky white, transparent shell, shaped like Sigaretus.
CORNEA, and PISUM, Megerle. CYCLAS, Lam.
CORNEO-CALCAREOUS. A term used to express the mixture of horny and
shelly matter which enters into the composition of some shells,
Aplysia, for instance. It is also applied to those Opercula, which are
horny on one side, and testaceous on the other, as that of Turbo.
CORNEUS. Horny. A species of Patella has had the specific name corneus
given to it, because its texture more nearly resembles that of a horn
than that of a shell. The epidermis of fresh-water shells is of a
similar composition.
CORNUCOPIA. Humph. LEPAS, Linn.
CORONALES. See CORONULAR MULTIVALVES.
CORONATED. (_Corona_, a crown.) Applied to shells when ornamented with
a series of points, tubercles, &c., round the upper edges of the
volutions. _Ex._ Conus Nocturnus, fig. 459.
CORONAXIS. One of the two genera into which Swainson divides the genus
Conus, consisting of those species which have a row of tubercles on the
upper edge of the whorls, an arrangement by which he would in many
instances, not only separate between two individuals of the same
species, but also between two parts of the same shell; for instances
occur in which the earlier whorls are coronated, while the body whorl
and the penultimate are perfectly plain.
CORONULA. (_Corona_, a crown, dim.) _Order_, Sessile Cirripedes, Lam.
_Fam._ Balanidea, Bl.--_Descr._ Six radiated valves, joined side by
side in a circle, forming a depressed cone; internal structure of the
valves, porous or chambered; thickened at the base; operculum
consisting of four valves in pairs; imbedded horizontally in a
cartilaginous substance.--_Obs._ The shells composing this genus are
found partly imbedded in the skin of whales, and the shells of
tortoises, and are therefore destitute of the shelly foundation on
which the Balani and other Coronular Multivalves are supported. C.
Testudinaria, (CHELONOBIA, Leach,) fig. 15. C. Balænarum, (CETOPIRUS,
Ranz.) fig. 16. C. Diadema, (DIADEMA, Ranz.) fig. 17.
CORONULAR MULTIVALVES are those which have their parietal valves joined
together side by side in a circle, surrounding the body of the animal,
so as to form a sort of coronet. This is the characteristic of the
Sessile Cirripedes of Lamarck's system, the Balanidea of De Blainville.
CORRODED. (_Corrodo_, eat away, consume.) The umbones, apices, and
other thick parts of shells, are frequently worn away or consumed by
the action of the element in which they exist. As the thickest parts of
some shells are the most subject to this operation, it appears to the
author to arise from the outer surface of the shell, being less under
the influence of the animal juices than the other parts; and therefore,
more exposed to the influence of the surrounding element. This,
however, is not the case with respect to the Nayades and other
fresh-water shells; with these, corrosion does not take place until
after the thick epidermis which covers them, becomes wounded by some
means or other, and then the animal thickens its shell within as fast
as it is corroded without.
CORTALUS. Montf. (Conch. Syst. 1. 115.) A genus of microscopic
Foraminifera, placed by De Blainville in a division of the genus
Rotalites.
COSTATED. Ribbed, as Cardium Angulatum, fig. 123.
COSTELLARIA. A sub-genus of the genus Tiara, Sw. (Mitra.) C. rigida.
Swainson, Zool. Ill. 1st series, pl. 29.
COWRY. A common name for shells of the genus Cypræa.
CRANIA. (_Cranium_, a skull.) _Fam._ Rudistes, Lam. _Order_,
Pallio-branchiata, Bl.--_Descr._ Inequivalve, equilateral, irregular,
sub-quadrate; upper valve patelliform, conical, with the umbo near the
centre; lower valve attached by its outer surface; muscular
impressions, 4 in each valve; two large, posterior, distant; two small,
near to each other, central. No hinge teeth; no ligament.--_Obs._ This
genus properly belongs to the Brachiopoda, Lam. It differs from
Orbicula in the mode of attachment, which in the latter, is by a byssus
passing through the lower valve, and not by the valve itself. Hipponyx
has only two muscular impressions in each valve. The name of this genus
is derived from the inner surface of the attached valve, which presents
a remarkable resemblance to the facial portion of a human skull. This
appearance is caused by the situation and elevated edges of the
muscular impressions. Fig. 197. Coasts of Britain and Mediterranean.
CRASSATED. (_Crassus_, thick.) Used to express a thickness in the
substance of a shell. _Ex._ Glycimeris, fig. 67.
CRASSATELLA. Lam. (_Crassus_, thick.) _Fam._ Mactracea, Lam. Conchacea,
Bl.--_Descr._ Equivalve, inequilateral, close, thick, rounded
anteriorly, rostrated posteriorly, with denticulated margins, smooth,
or ribbed transversely; hinge with a triangular pit containing the
cartilage, two anterior cardinal teeth, and a posterior depression in
one valve; one anterior tooth and a slight anterior marginal elevation,
and a posterior elevation in the other valve. Muscular impressions
distant, strongly marked. Palleal impression not sinuated.--_Obs._ The
few recent species known are marine, several being brought from the
coasts of New Holland. Fossil species are found in Calcaire-grossier
and London clay. The Crassatella are known from the Veneres, &c., by
the ligamentary pit in the hinge, and from Lutraria and Mactra by the
thickness and closeness of the shell. Fig. 84, C. rostrata.
CRASSINA. Lam. ASTARTE, Sow.
CRASSIPEDES. Lam. (_Crassus_, thick; _pes_, foot.) The first section of
the order Conchifera Dimyaria, Lam. In this section the foot of the
animal is thick, and the shell gapes considerably. It is divided into
the families Tubicolæ, Pholadidæ, Solenidæ, and Myaria. Fig. 44 to 76.
CRASSISPIRA. Sw. A genus separated from COLUMBELLA, Auct. for which Mr.
Swainson quotes "Pleurotoma Bottæ, Auct." Crassispira fasciata, Sw.
Lardn. Cyclop. Malac. p. 313.
CRENATED. (_Crena_, a notch.) Applied to small notches, not
sufficiently raised or defined, to be compared to teeth. _Ex._ The
hinge of Iridina, fig. 150.
CRENATULA. Lam. _Fam._ Malleacea, Lam. Margaritacea, Bl.--_Descr._
Compressed, foliated, irregular, sub-equivalve, inequilateral, oblique;
umbones terminal; hinge linear, nearly straight, with a series of
excavations, containing the cartilage, while the intervening ridges are
covered with the ligament, properly so called. Muscular impression
oblong, indistinct.--_Obs._ This genus is known from Perna by the
hinge, which in the latter is composed of a series of regular,
straight, ligamentary grooves placed across it. In Crenatula also there
is no passage for the byssus, as in Perna. C. Mytiloides, fig. 168.
Coasts of the Red Sea.
CRENULATED. Finely crenated or notched.
CREPIDULA. Lam. (_Crepidula_, a little slipper.) _Fam._ Calyptracea,
Lam. and Bl.--_Descr._ Oval, irregular, patelliform; apex lateral,
incurved, or sub-spiral; external surface convex, smooth, ribbed,
waved, or covered with spines; interior concave, smooth, with a
flattish septum reaching nearly half across the cavity; epidermis light
brown.--_Obs._ The difference between this genus and Calyptræa is that
in the latter, the septum is more free from the sides of the shell, so
that, instead of forming a regular plate, covering half the aperture,
it assumes a variety of shapes, and in some is cup-shaped, in others
forked, and in some forms a little angular shelf. Indeed, the
variations are so numerous that I think it would be better to throw the
two genera into one, and then divide them into smaller groups. Some
species of Calyptræa are farther removed from each other with respect
to the characters of the septum and general form of the shell, than
they are from the Crepidulæ. Fig. 239. Mediterranean, North and South
America, East and West Indies, New South Wales, &c.
CREPIDULINA. Bl. CRISTELLARIA, Lam. Microscopic.
CRESEIS. Ranz. _Order_, Pteropoda, Lam.--_Descr._ Thin, fragile,
transparent, pyramidal, pointed; with a dorsal ridge produced into a
point at the edge of the aperture.--_Obs._ The species found in the
Mediterranean is named C. Spinifera (fig. 222), from its resemblance to
a thorn.
CREUSIA. Leach. (_Creux_, se. Fr. a cavity.) _Fam._ Balanidea, Bl.
_Order_, Sessile Cirripedes, Lam.--_Descr._ A depressed cone,
consisting of four valves, supported upon, and jointed to, a cup-shaped
cavity formed in the Madrepores, in which it resides. Aperture
quadrilateral, closed by an operculum of four valves.--_Obs._ This
genus is distinguished from Pyrgoma, which is supported on the edge of
a similar cup-shaped cavity, by the paries being composed of four
valves, whereas in Pyrgoma, it consists of a single piece. Fig. 28, C.
Gregaria. East Indies.
CRICOSTOMATA. Bl. The second family of Asiphonibranchiata, Bl. It is
thus described: "shell equally (with the animal) variable in general
form, but of which the aperture, always nearly round, is completely
closed by the shelly or horny operculum; whorls few, and apex
sublateral." This family agrees in some measure with the family
Turbinacea of Lamarck, and with the genus Turbo in the system of
Linnæus. It contains the genera Pleurotomaria, Delphinula, Turritella,
Proto, Scalaria, Vermetus, Siliquaria, Magilus, Valvata, Cyclostoma,
and Paludina.
CRIOCERATITES. A genus composed of species of Ammonites, with
disconnected whorls. C. Duvallii, fig. 482.
CRIOPUS. Poli. CRANIA, Auct.
CRISTACEA. Lam. The third family of Polythalamous Cephalopoda, Lam.
This family is described as including shells of the following
characters:--"Multilocular, flattened, nearly reniform; the chambers
gradually increasing in length, as they approach the outer arched
margin, and appearing to revolve round an eccentric, more or less
marginal axis. The Cristacea contain the genera Renulina, Cristellaria,
and Orbiculina."
CRISTACEA. Bl. The third family of Polythalamia, Bl. containing the
genera Crepidulina, (Cristellaria, Lam.) Oreas and Linthuris.
CRISTARIA. Schum. DIPSAS Plicatus, Leach. ANODON tuberculatus, Fer.
CRISTELLARIA. Lam. CREPIDULINA, Bl. _Fam._ Cristacea, Lam. and
Bl.--_Descr._ Semidiscoidal, chambered; whorls contiguous, enlarging
progressively; spire eccentric, sublateral; septa imperforate.
Microscopic.
CRYPTA. Humph. CREPIDULA, Lam.
CRYPTELLA. Webb. ([Greek: Kruptô], to conceal.) TESTACELLUS Ambiguus of
Ferrusac. Published in Sowerby's Genera of Shells as PARMACELLA
calyculata.--_Descr._ A small patelliform shell, with a very short
papillary spire; and the aperture irregularly expanded. Fig. 256.
Canary Islands.
CRYPTOCONCHUS. Bl. A genus composed of species of Chiton, the valves of
which are covered by the integument, as Chiton porosus of Burrows. Ch.
amiculatus of Pallas.
CRYPTODIBRANCHIATA. Bl. The first order of the class Cephalophora, Bl.
containing families of molluscous animals destitute of shells.
CRYPTOSTOMA. Bl. Differs from SIGARETUS, Lam. principally in the soft
parts of the animal. De Blainville remarks that he is acquainted with
only two species (from the Indies), which he can with decision refer to
the genus, but he thinks that many of the Lamarckian Sigareti may very
probably be found to belong to it, as soon as the soft parts shall be
known. The species which he figures is Cryptostoma Leachii. (Manuel de
Malacologie, pl. 42. fig. 3.)
CTENOCONCHA. Gray. Described as having many characters in common with
the Solens, the teeth like Nucula, but the cartilage entirely external.
SOLENELLA, Sow.?
CUCULLÆA. Lam. (_Cucullus_, a hood.) _Fam._ Arcacea, Lam.--_Descr._
Sub-quadrate, nearly equivalve, sub-equilateral, deep; hinge
rectilinear, with a series of angular teeth, small near the umbones,
larger and more oblique towards the extremities; umbones separated by a
flat external area, on which the ligament is spread. Anterior muscular
impression produced into a sharp-edged plate or ledge, projecting from
the side of the shell. Posterior muscular impression flat and
indistinct.--_Obs._ This genus very much resembles Arca in general
form, but differs in the oblique, lengthened character of the remote
teeth, and in the singularly prominent edge of the muscular impression.
China. Fig. 133, C. Auriculifera.
CUCUMIS. Klein. MARGINELLA, Auct.
CULTELLUS. Species of LUTRARIA, Lam. which have the umbones placed near
the extremity of the shell. _Ex._ L. Solenoides, fig. 78.
CUMA. Humph. FUSUS and FASCIOLARIA, Lam.
CUMINGIA. Sow. _Fam._ Mactracea, Lam.--_Descr._ Equivalve,
inequilateral, transverse, rounded anteriorly, subrostrated
posteriorly. Hinge with a central spoon-shaped cavity in each valve,
containing the cartilage; a very small anterior cardinal tooth in each
valve; two lateral teeth in one valve, none in the other: muscular
impressions two in each valve, distant; palleal impression with a very
large posterior sinus.--_Obs._ The species known at present are found
in sand, in the fissures of rocks in Tropical climates. They resemble
Erycina in general form and character, but differ in having the
internal cartilage placed in a prominent spoon-shaped process, while
that of Erycina is contained in a hollow which sinks under the umbones.
This genus should be placed near Amphidesma. Cumingia mutica, fig. 87.
CUNEIFORM. (_Cuneus_, a wedge.) Wedge-shaped, as Donax, fig. 108.
CUNEUS. Megerle. VENUS Meroe, Linn. and similar species.
CUNICULA. Sw. A sub-genus of Uniones, thus described:--"Ovate, oblong;
bosses thick, but depressed; cardinal teeth moderate. C. planulata,
patula, rubiginosa, secura, purpurascens."
CURVED. Arched or bent. _Ex._ Dentalium, fig. 2.
CURVULA. Rafinesque. A fossil imperfectly described as differing from
Pinna, in being inequivalve.
CUVIERIA. Ranz. (Baron Cuvier.) _Class_, Pteropoda, Lam.--_Descr._
Thin, transparent, glassy, cylindrical, rounded and inflated at the
closed extremity, compressed towards the opening, so as to render it
oval. This genus differs from Vaginula in being rounded, instead of
pointed, at the lower extremity. Mediterranean. Fig. 223, C. Columella.
CYCLAS. Brug. _Fam._ Conques Fluviatiles, Lam. Conchacea, Bl.--_Descr._
Orbicular, thin, subovate, ventricose, sub-equilateral, equivalve;
cardinal teeth minute, one more or less complicated in the left valve,
two diverging in the right; lateral teeth elongated, compressed,
laminar, acute, doubled in the left valve; ligament external; epidermis
thin, horny.--_Obs._ The Cyclades are viviparous, and abound in
ditches, ponds, slow streams, &c. in Europe and North America. The
genus Pisidium has been separated on account of a difference in the
animal, and may be known from Cyclas by being less equilateral, and the
anterior side being the longest. Fig. 111, C. Rivicola.
CYCLOBRANCHIATA. Bl. The third order of the second section of
Paracephalophora Monoica, Bl. containing no genera of Testaceous
Mollusca.
CYCLOCANTHA. Sw. A genus of "Trochidæ," consisting of Turbo stellaris
and T. Calcar, and corresponding with the genus Calcar, Montf.
CYCLONASSA. Sw. A genus of "Nassinæ," Sw. consisting of Nassa
Neritoidea, and corresponding with the genus Cyclops, Montf.
CYCLOPHORUS. Montf. A generic name proposed for those species of
Cyclostoma, Auct. which have an umbilicus. C. Involvulus, fig. 304,
would be the type of this genus.
CYCLOPS. Montf. NASSA Neritoidea, Auct. fig. 424.
CYCLOSTOMA. Auct. ([Greek: kuklos], _cyclos_, round; [Greek: stoma],
_stoma_, mouth.) _Fam._ Colimacea, Lam. Cricostomata, Bl. A genus of
land shells varying in shape from that of Pupa to that of a flat orb;
the aperture is generally circular and the peritreme uninterrupted,
thickened and sometimes reflected, the operculum is shelly and spiral.
Two other genera of land shells are provided with opercula, and
consequently might be confounded with this genus. In Helicina, the
operculum is concentric and the peritreme is not continuous; while in
the small genus hitherto almost unknown of Pupina, the peritreme is not
continuous and there is a glassy enamel over the whole of the external
surface. In the plates we have represented, C. ferrugineum, fig. 303;
C. involvulus, fig. 304.
CYCLOTUS. Guild. A sub-genus of Cyclostoma, consisting of those species
which are discoidal, as C. Planorbulum. Fig. 530.
CYLINDER. Montf. CONUS textile, Auct. (fig. 461) and other species
having a cylindrical form.
CYLINDRELLA. Sw. A genus of the family "Ovulinæ," Sw. composed of
cylindrical species of Ovulum? The wood-cut illustrating this genus has
the appearance of a Bulla.
CYLINDRICAL. ([Greek: kulindros], a cylinder.) This like other
mathematical terms is used with great latitude by Conchologists, and
applied to any shell the sides of which are nearly parallel, with the
extremities either rounded, flat, or conical. _Ex._ Oliva, fig. 457.
CYLLENE. Gray. _Fam._ Purpurifera, Lam.--_Descr._ Oval, thick, with a
short acute spire; an oval aperture terminating anteriorly in a slight
emargination, posteriorly in a short canal; a fold at the lower end of
the body whorl; outer lip thick, striated within; angle of the whorls
tuberculated.--_Obs._ This genus of small marine shells resembles
Voluta in general character, but differs in having a smooth columella
without folds. Recent, Pacific Ocean; Fosil, London clay. Fig. 425.
CYMBA. Brod. (_Cymba_, a boat or skiff.) _Fam._ Columellaria,
Lam.--_Descr._ Smooth, ventricose, with a very short, mammillated, rude
spire; and a very large, wide aperture, terminated anteriorly in a deep
emargination; posteriorly in a flat ledge, which separates the outer
lip from the body whorl; columella with three or four oblique, laminar,
projecting folds, terminating in a point; outer lip thin, with its edge
sharp; epidermis smooth, brown, covered partly or entirely by the
glassy enamel, which, commencing with the outer lip, spreads over the
body of the shell.--_Obs._ These very elegant shells, found in Africa,
are distinguished from the true Volutes by the shapeless, mammillated
apex of the short spire, by the large size of the aperture, and by the
horizontal ledge which separates the outer lip from the body whorl. The
genus Melo, also separated by Mr. Broderip from the Volutes, agrees
with Cymba in some respects, but differs in the regularity of the
spire. Fig. 434, C. Porcina.
CYMBIOLA. Sw. The generic name for a group of Volutes, described as
"armed with spinous tubercules, sometimes smooth, but never ribbed;
spiral whorls gradually diminishing in size, but not distorted; apex
thick and obtuse; pillar with four plaits." Mr. Swainson remarks that
this genus is chiefly distinguished by the obtuse, but not irregular
spire. The typical species are stated to be V. Rutila and V.
Vespertilio, fig. 433. Tropical.
CYMBULIA. (Dim. from _Cymba_.) _Fam._ Pteropoda, Lam. An extremely
light, cartilaginous covering of a molluscous animal, so named from its
similarity in shape to a boat. We mention it here on account of its
similarity to the shelly or glassy covering of other Pteropods, to
which, although membranaceous, it is evidently analogous. The Cymbuliæ
are found in the Mediterranean.
CYPRÆA. Auct. _Fam._ Enroulées, Lam. Angyostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Oval
or oblong, ventricose, convolute, covered by an enamel, generally
smooth and shining. Spire short, nearly hid. Aperture long, narrow,
terminating in a short canal at both extremities. Outer lip dentated,
thickened, inflected. Inner lip dentated, thickened, reflected over
part of the body whorl.--_Obs._ These shells are so distinguished by
the two rows of teeth arranged on each side of the aperture; the
thickened front formed by the inner and outer lips; and the enamel
deposited over the back of the shell from the mantle of the animal
which envelopes it, that there is no danger of confounding them with
any other genus, except in a young state. Before they have arrived at
the full growth, the front is not thickened, and the outer lip is thin,
not inflected, nor are the teeth formed. In this state the shell
resembles, in some degree, an Oliva. Some species are striated, ribbed,
or tuberculated, but the generality are smooth. Most species belong to
tropical climates, only one to Great Britain. The C. Moneta is current
as money in some parts of Africa, and many species are worn as
ornaments by the South Sea Islanders. The colouring in most species is
exceedingly rich, and arranged in every variety of spots, patches,
rings, lines, bands and clouds. The species most esteemed by collectors
are C. Mappa, C. Testudinaria, C. Pustulata, C. Aurora, C. Princeps, of
which only two specimens are known, C. Leucodon, &c. See also
Cypræovulum, Trivea and Luponia. The fossil species are principally
from the Calc-grossier, the London Clay, Crag, &c. Fig. 445 to 450. The
latest revision of this genus has been effected by Mr. G. B. Sowerby,
sen., who has published a complete catalogue in his son's Conchological
Illustrations. This catalogue enumerates 130 species, the whole of
which are figured in parts 1 to 8, 101 to 131 of the above mentioned
work.
CYPRÆCASSIS. Stutch. (Cypræa and Cassis.)--_Descr._ Shell, when young,
striated, reticulated, or tuberculated; outer lip simple: when mature,
outer lip involute and toothed; columellar lip also toothed; aperture
straight, anteriorly terminated by a recurved canal, posteriorly by a
shallow channel. Animal with the mantle bilobed; operculum
none.--_Obs._ The reasons given for separating this genus from Cassis,
are, 1st, That the shells of the latter have an operculum, while those
of the proposed genus have none. 2nd, That the Cypræcassides do not
form a complete, thickened lip, before the full period of their growth,
like the Cassides. 3rd, That the Cypræcassides have no epidermis. The
species mentioned as probably belonging to Cypræcassis are C. rufa, the
type; C. coarctata, and C. Testiculus, Auct. The establishment of this
genus has been opposed on the ground that indications of epidermis are
discoverable in some specimens of C. rufa; that some specimens of the
same species and Testiculus have been examined, and found to have
formed slightly thickened and dentulated outer lips at very early
periods of growth, while many of the other Cassides are destitute of
varices, and that an operculum of C. coarctata was brought to this
country by Mr. Cuming. It is probable, however, that an increased
knowledge of facts might go far to establish the separation. C.
Testiculus, fig. 412.
CYPRÆADIA. Sw. A genus of the family "Cypræidæ," Sw. thus
described:--"Cypræform; the base contracted; the body whorl not
flattened beneath; shell cancellated; aperture of equal breadth
throughout; a few thickened, short teeth on the pillar; lip at the
base, which is not internally concave. C. cancellata, Sw. Fossil only,
differing from Trivea in its contracted base, in the inequality of its
aperture, and the equal convexity of the inner lip within." (Sw. Lardn.
Cyclop. Malac. p. 325.) Cyprædia, fig. 564.
CYPRÆLA. Sw. A genus formed for the reception of Ovulum verrucosum,
Auct. which has a circular depression at each extremity. It is the same
as the genus Calpurnus of De Montfort. Ovulum verrucosum, fig. 441.
CYPRÆOVULUM. Gray. A genus of Cypræidæ thus described, "shell like a
cowry, but front end of columella covered with regular cross-ribs, like
the rest of the base, internally produced into an acute toothed ridge.
Shell pear-shaped, cross-ridged." C. capense, fig. 444. South Africa.
CYPRICARDIA. Lam. _Fam._ Cardiacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Equivalve,
inequilateral, subquadrate, transversely elongated, with the anterior
side very short; hinge with three cardinal teeth and one remote lateral
tooth in each valve; muscular impressions two in each valve; ligament
external.--_Obs._ This genus is distinguished from Cardita by the three
cardinal teeth. The mollusca of this genus are marine. C. angulata,
fig. 125. Pacific Ocean.
CYPRINA. Lam. _Fam._ "Conques Marines," or Marine Conchacea.--_Descr._
Equivalve, inequilateral, sub-orbicular; umbones curved obliquely;
hinge with three diverging cardinal and one remote lateral teeth in
each valve; ligament external; muscular impressions two in each valve;
palleal impression having a slight posterior sinus; epidermis thick,
rough brown.--_Obs._ The Cyprinæ belong to the Northern hemisphere. The
recent species are not numerous. Fossil species are found in the
tertiary deposits. Cyprina may be known from Venus by the remote
lateral tooth and the thick epidermis. C. vulgaris, fig. 116.
CYRENA. Auct. _Fam._ Fluviatile Conchaceæ, Lam. Conchacea, Bl--_Descr._
Suborbicular, equivalve, inequilateral, ventricose, corroded at the
umbones, thick, covered with a thick epidermis; hinge with three
cardinal and two remote lateral teeth in each valve. Muscular
impressions two in each valve; palleal impression not sinuated.--_Obs._
This genus is distinguished from Venus, Cytherea and Cyprina, by having
two remote lateral teeth; and from Cyclas by the thickness of the
shell. This genus is mostly fluviatile; the recent species are
tropical, and the fossil are found in the newest formations. Fig. 113,
C. fuscata.
CYRENELLA. Desh. See CYRENOIDES.
CYRENOIDES. Joannis. CYRENELLA, Desh. _Fam._ Conques Fluviatiles,
Lam.--_Descr._ Equivalve, subequilateral, ventricose, thin, covered
with a reddish brown epidermis, corroded at the umbones, with a slight
posterior fold. Hinge thin, with three diverging cardinal teeth in each
valve, and a very slight posterior fold in the right valve. Ligament
not very tumid.--_Obs._ This fresh-water shell differs from Cyclas and
Cyrena in the want of lateral teeth, and from the latter in the
thinness of the shell. Fig. 114.
CYRTIA. Dalman. ([Greek: Kurtos], curtos, gibbose.) _Fam._ Brachiopoda,
Lam.--_Descr._ "Hinge rectilinear; with the back elevated into a
semicone or half-pyramid, the cardinal side perpendicularly
_plane_."--_Obs._ This genus of fossil Brachiopoda forms part of the
genus Spirifer, Sow. C. exporrecta, (Anomites exporrecta, Nonnull.)
fig. 204.
CYTHEREA. Lam. _Fam._ "Conques Marines," Lam.--_Descr._ Equivalve,
inæquilateral, oval, lenticular, or sub-trigonal; hinge with two or
more short, diverging cardinal teeth, and one anterior approximate
lateral tooth in each valve.--_Obs._ The Cythereæ are distinguished
from the Veneres by the lateral tooth. C. Meretrix, fig. 117, and 117,
_a. b. c. d._
DACTYLUS. Humph. MARGINELLA, Auct.
DARACIA. Gray. A subgenus of Pyrgoma, including a species which is
remarkable for the irregularity of its form. It grows upon a species of
Monticularia, and the margin takes the shape of the lobes by which it
is surrounded. The aperture is large, and completely closed by the
operculum. Daracia (Pyrgoma) Monticulariæ, fig. 489, 490.
DATE. A common name given to shells of the genus Pholas, on account of
their cylindrical form and consequent resemblance to the fruit. For the
same reason the name Pholas Dactylus has been given by Naturalists to
the species which we represent, fig. 66.
DEAD SHELL. A term used among collectors to signify that the shell has
been exposed on the sea-shore after the animal has ceased to live. A
shell in this condition is worn down by attrition, and loses its beauty
and brilliancy of colouring by being subject to the action of salt
water. A dead shell may be known by a certain hoary whiteness spread
over its surface.
DECACERA. Bl. The second family of the order Cryptodibranchiata, Bl.
containing the genera Calmar and Sepia, which have no shells.
DECADOPECTEN. Rüppell. PECTEN _Plica_, Linn. Fig. 172, having a
plicated hinge.
DECOLLATED. (_Decollari_, to be beheaded.) The apex or nucleus of some
shells being composed of a more fragile substance than the rest, has a
tendency to fall off. The reason of this probably is that the animal
withdrawing from that part, leaves it unprotected. When it falls off,
the hole is stopped up by a septum filling the cavity of the volution,
so as to exclude the air: the shell is then said to be decollated.
_Ex._ Bulinus decollatus, fig. 289.
DECUSSATED. Intersected by striæ crossing each other. _Ex._ Rissoa,
fig. 346.
DELPHINULA. Montf. (_Delphinus_, a dolphin.) _Fam._ Scalariens, Lam.
Cricostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Orbicular, depressed, thick, rugose; whorls
few, angulated, branched at the angles; aperture pearly, rounded or
sub-quadrate; peritreme continuous, thickened; operculum horny,
composed of numerous whorls.--_Obs._ Several fossil species are found
in the tertiary deposits. D. laciniata, fig. 352. Recent species belong
to tropical climates.
DELTHYRIS. Dalman. _Fam._ Brachiopoda, Lam.--_Descr._ Hinge more or
less rounded, with distant umbones; both valves convex; with the umbo
of the largest rostrated and deltoid, with a hollow. This genus forms
part of the genus Spirifer, Sow. Fig. 205. D. Plycotes, Dalman.
DELTOID. ([Greek: D], _delta_.) Triangular.
DENDOSTREA. Sw. ([Greek: Dendron], _dendron_, tree; [Greek: ostreon],
_ostreon_, oyster.) Ostrea _Crista-galli_, and other species which are
attached to stems of sea-weed and corallines, by means of arms thrown
out from the inner surface of the lower valve. Fig. 181, Ostrea Folium.
DENTALIUM. Auct. (_Dens_, a tooth.) _Fam._ Maldania, Lam. _Order_,
Cirrobranchiata, Bl.--_Descr._ Tubular, arched, increasing in size
towards the anterior extremity, open at both ends; small aperture
sometimes having a lateral fissure; large aperture round; external
surface ribbed, striated or smooth.--_Obs._ The well known shells
composing this genus are shaped very much like an elephant's tusk, and
are not liable to be confounded with any other genus. The fossil
species are sometimes termed Dentalithes, from _dens_, a tooth, and
_lithos_, a stone. The Dentalia, being true molluscs, are not rightly
placed among the Annelides. Fig. 2, D. octogonum. Found on sandy shores
in most climates.
DENTATED. Having teeth or raised points.
DENTICULATED. (Denticulatus, Lat.) Having little teeth or raised
points.
DEPRESSED. Flattened, pressed down, as the spires of some shells.
DEXTRAL Spiral Shells. Place the point of a spiral shell towards the
eye, with its mouth downwards; if, as in most instances, the aperture
be on the right side of the axis, it is a _dextral_ shell, if
otherwise, it is _sinistral_ or _reversed_. Balea (fig. 296), and
Clausilia (fig. 295), are examples of reversed shells.
DEXTRAL Valve. Take a bivalve shell closed, place it before the eye,
with the umbones uppermost, and the posterior side, which may be known
by the ligament towards the observer, whose right side will then
correspond with the right valve of the shell.
DIADEMA. Ranz. CORONULA Diadema, Auct. fig. 17.
DIANCHORA. Sow. _Fam._ Pectinides, Lam. _Order_, Palliobranchiata,
Bl.--_Descr._ Inequivalve, attached, oblique, subtriangular; attached
valve, having an opening in the place of the umbo; the other valve
auriculated, with an obtuse umbo; hinge without teeth.--_Obs._ The
green sand fossils contained in this genus differ from Plagiostoma in
being attached. Fig. 175, D. striata.
DIAPHANOUS. ([Greek: Dia], _dia_, through; [Greek: phainô], _phaino_,
to shine.) Transparent.
DIAPHRAGM, ([Greek: diaphragma], a partition.) This term is applied to
the septa, by which the chambers of multilocular and other shells are
divided from each other.
DICERAS. Lam. ([Greek: Dis], _dis_, double; [Greek: Keras], _ceras_,
horn.) _Fam._ Chamacea, Bl. and Lam.--_Descr._ Inequilateral,
inequivalve, attached by the point of the umbo of the larger valve;
umbones prominent, spirally twisted and grooved; hinge with one large
thick tooth in the larger valve; muscular impressions, two in each
valve.--_Obs._ The prominent spiral umbones, which give rise to the
name of this genus, with the circumstance of its being attached by the
point of one of them, is sufficient to distinguish it from any other,
although it appears to approach Isocardia in some characters. In others
it will be found still more nearly to resemble Chama. In fact, from
being attached and irregular, the shells composing this genus have been
considered as Chamæ with produced umbones. The singular fossil shells
composing this genus, are found in granular limestone, near Geneva and
in Normandy. Fig. 154, D. perversum.
DIDONTA. Schum. SAXICAVA. Auct.
DIFFUSE. (_Diffundo_, to spread out, to dilate.) A term applied to the
aperture of a univalve shell, when it is spread out or widened into a
flat surface, or digitations. _Alated_ is another term used to express
the same character. Thus, the shells belonging to the family of Alatæ,
in the system of Lamarck, are _diffuse_ in the outer lip. Fig. 402 to
406.
DIGITATED. (_Digitus_, finger.) Branched out in long points, as
Ricinula, fig. 413.
DILATED. Expanded, spread. This term has the same application as
diffuse and alated, explained above. The outer lip of Rostellaria
Columbaria, fig. 403 (Hippochrenes, Montf.), will serve as an example.
DIMORPHINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
DIMYARIA. ([Greek: Dis], _dis_, double; [Greek: muon], _myon_, muscle.)
The first order of Conchifera, Lam. including those molluscs which have
two adductor muscles, and consequently two muscular impressions in each
valve. The Conchifera Dimyaria are divided into Crassipedes,
Tenuipedes, Lamellipedes, and Ambiguæ, fig. 44 to 155.
DIOICA. Bl. The first division of the class Paracephalophora, Bl. It is
divided into the orders Siphonobranchiata and Asiphonibranchiata, Bl.
DIPLODON. Spix. HYRIA Syrmatophora, Lam. fig. 144, and UNIO
multistriatus, Lea, are doubtfully quoted by Lea as belonging to this
apparently ill-defined genus of Nayades.
DIPSAS. Leach. A genus or sub-genus of Nayades, the distinctive
character of which is "having a linear tooth under the dorsal edge." D.
plicatus, fig. 142.
DISCINA. Lam. ORBICULA, Auct.
DISCODOMA. Sw. A sub-genus of Lucerninæ, Sw. (Helix), thus described,
"teeth none; aperture angulated; the inner lip nearly obsolete; the
outer only slightly thickened; margin carinated."
DISCOIDAL. (_Discus_, a circular plane.) A spiral shell is said to be
discoidal, when the whorls are so horizontally convolute as to form a
flattened spire. _Ex._ Planorbis, fig. 311. Orbulites Discus, fig. 479.
DISCOLITES. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
DISCONTINUOUS. Interrupted. _Ex._ The siphon of Nautilus is
discontinuous, i. e. its termination in one chamber does not reach to
its commencement in the next. The varices of Triton, occurring in
different parts of the whorls, do not form the continuous ridges which
characterize the generality of the Ranellæ.
DISCORBITES. Lam. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
DISTANT. The teeth on the hinge of a bivalve shell are said to be
distant when they are remote from the umbones.
DIVARICATED. Diverging, meeting in a point, as the teeth on the hinge
of Placuna, fig. 184.
DOLABELLA. Lam. (Dim. from _Dolabra_, a hatchet.) _Fam._ Aplysiacea,
Lam. and Bl.--_Descr._ Hatchet-shaped, arched, covered with a horny
epidermis; posteriorly attenuated, thickened, sub-spiral, anteriorly
plane, broad, thin; posterior margin reflected.--_Obs._ The two or
three species of Dolabella known are inhabitants of the Indian Ocean.
They were placed by Linnæus in his very convenient genus Bulla, under
the name B. dubia. Fig. 255, Dolabella Rumphii.
DOLIUM. D'Argenville. (_a tun._) _Fam._ Purpurifera, Lam.
Entomostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Thin, ventricose, oval, or globular, with
a short spire; large aperture terminating in a reflected canal, and
spirally ribbed or grooved external surface; outer lip crenated; inner
lip reflected over part of the body whorl, which terminates in a tumid
varix; epidermis light, horny. Mediterranean and East Indian.--_Obs._
This genus is distinguished from Cassis by the outer lip, which is not
reflected. The species which are not so rotund as the others, as D.
Perdix, Auct. have been separated under the name Perdix, as generic.
Fig. 420, Dolium Maculatum.
DONAX. Auct. _Fam._ Nymphacea, Lam. Conchacea, Bl.--_Descr._ Equivalve,
inequilateral, trigonal, with the anterior side short, straight, plane;
the posterior side elongated, drawn to a narrow, rounded termination;
hinge with two cardinal teeth in one valve, one in the other, and one
or two, more or less remote lateral teeth; ligament external; muscular
impressions two in each valve; palleal impression sinuated
posteriorly.--_Obs._ The Capsæ have not the crenated margins, the short
anterior side, and the distinct lateral teeth, which characterize the
Donaces. Some species of Erycina resemble Donax in general form, but
are at once distinguished by the ligamentary pit in the hinge. Sandy
shores in all climates. Fig. 108, D. cuneatus.
DORSAL. A dorsal shell is one placed upon the back of the animal. The
dorsal margin of a bivalve shell is that on which the hinge is placed;
the opposite margins are termed ventral. The dorsal surface of a spiral
univalve is that which is seen when the aperture is turned from the
observer. The dorsal valve is the uppermost in Brachiopodous bivalves.
The dorsal part of a symmetrical convolute univalve, such as the
Nautilus and Ammonite is that part of the whorls which is at the
greatest distance from the spire, that is, the outer part of the
whorls. Thus the situation of the siphon is said to be dorsal when it
pierces the septum near the outer edge of the whorls. The dorsal part
of symmetrical conical univalves, such as Patella, is the upper part,
on which the apex is placed.
DORSALIA. Lam. (_Dorsum_, the back.) The first family of the order
Annelides Sedentaria, Lam. containing the genera Arenicola, not a
shell, and Siliquaria, fig. 1, which is now considered as a true
mollusc, and placed next to Vermetus.
DOSINA. Schum. VENUS Verrucosa, Casina, and similar species. Fig. 119,
a.
DREISSINA. MYTILUS Polymorphus. Auct. fig. 159. This genus differs from
Mytilus principally in the characters of the animal. The shell is
characterized by a small septiform plate under the hinge within.
Fluviatile, Europe and Africa.
EBURNA. Lam. (_Eburneus_, ivory.) _Fam._ Purpurifera, Lam.
Entomostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Oval, thick, smooth, turrited,
umbilicated; spire angulated, acute, nearly as long as the aperture;
aperture oval, terminating anteriorly in a canal, posteriorly in a
groove; outer lip slightly thickened with an anterior notch, which
terminates in a spiral fold surrounding the body whorl; umbilicus
generally covered by the thickened columellar lip.--_Obs._ The
beautiful shells called ivory shells, which originally constituted part
of this genus, are now placed in the genus Ancillaria by authors. They
differ from the present genus Eburna, in having the sutures of the
spire covered with a polished enamel. (A. glabrata, fig. 455.) The
Eburnæ resemble in some respects the genus Buccinum, but a glance at
the figure will enable the reader to distinguish a true Eburna from all
other shells. Fig. 426 is Eburna Zeylanica. A catalogue of 9 species is
given in part 20 of the Conchological Illustrations published by the
Author, accompanied by figures of several species.
ECHIDNIS. Montf. Described as a straight, chambered, annulated, fossil
shell, computed from the extremely gradual increase in diameter of the
fragments to be at least sixteen feet long. Found in marble from the
Pyrenees.
ECHINELLA. Sw. A sub-genus of Monodonta. Sw. Malac. page 352.
EFFUSE. (_effundo_, to pour out.) The aperture of an univalve shell is
said to be effuse when there is a notch in the margin which would
suffer a liquid to escape, and thus prevent it being filled to the
brim.
EGEON. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
EGERIA. Lea. (Contrib. to Geol. p. 49, pl. 1.) A genus of fossil
bivalves, described as very variable in form, with or without lateral
teeth, sometimes a crenated margin, &c. The only certain characters
appear to be that they have two diverging cardinal teeth in each valve,
one of which is bifid; and an external ligament. Lea states that the
Egeriæ should be placed between the Sanguinolariæ and the Psammobiæ,
which two latter genera have been united by Sowerby. Fig. 103, E.
Triangulata, from the tertiary formation of Alabama.
ELENCHUS. Humph. A genus composed of TROCHUS Iris, Auct. and other
similarly formed species. It is the same as CANTHARIDUS of Montfort.
ELEPHANT'S TUSK. The common name given by dealers to shells of the
genus Dentalium. _Ex._ D. octogonum, fig. 2.
ELEVATED. A term which is applied by some conchological writers to the
spire of an univalve shell when it consists of numerous whorls drawn
out into a telescopic form. Other authors use the term _elongated_, or
the more simple one '_long_,' to express the degree of elevation.
ELISMA. Leach. A sub-genus of Bulinus. B. acutus, Auct. Gray, Turton,
p. 185.
ELLIPSOLITHES. Montf. ([Greek: Elleipsis], _ellipsis_, oval; [Greek:
lithos,] _lithos_, stone.) A genus composed of Ammonites, which instead
of being regularly orbicular, take an elliptical or oval form. This
character appears to be accidental, as some individuals of the same
species, both of Nautilus and Ammonites, are round, while others are
compressed into an oval form.
ELLIPSOSTOMATA. Bl. ([Greek: Elleipsis], _ellipsis_, oval; [Greek:
stôma], _mouth_.) The third family of the class Asiphonibranchiata, Bl.
The shells of this family are described as of various forms, generally
smooth; the aperture longitudinally or transversely oval, completely
closed by a horny or shelly operculum. This family contains the genera
Rissoa, Phasianella, Ampullaria, Helicina, and Pleuroceras.
ELLIPTICAL. ([Greek: Elleipsis], _ellipsis_.) Oval. Applied to any
shell or part of a shell, having that form.
ELMINEUS. Leach. _Order_, Sessile Cirripedes, Lam.--_Descr._ Four
unequal valves, arranged circularly side by side, forming a quadrate
cone; aperture large, sub-quadrate, irregular; operculum composed of
four valves, in pairs.--_Obs._ This genus differs from Conia in the
structure of the shell, the latter being porous. Fig. 22, Elmineus
Leachii.
ELPHIDIUM. Montf. (Conch. Syst. t. 1. p. 15.) A genus of microscopic
Foraminifera.
EMARGINATED. (_e_, out; _margo_, border.) Notched or hollowed out.
Applied to the edges or margins of shells, when instead of being level
they are hollowed out, as the outer lip of Oliva, fig. 457, at the
base, and the ventral margins of some bivalves.
EMARGINULA. Lam. (_e_, out; _margo_, border.) _Fam._ Calyptracea, Lam.
Branchifera, Bl.--_Descr._ Patelliform, oblong or oval; anterior margin
notched or emarginated; apex posteriorly inclined; muscular impressions
wide.--_Obs._ Emarginula elongata, of some Authors, PARMOPHORUS of De
Blainville is commonly called the Duck's bill limpet, from its shape.
The Emarginulæ may be known from Patellæ and other neighbouring genera,
by the notch or slit in the anterior edge. In the genus Rimula, Defr.
fig. 243, this slit is near the apex, and does not reach the margin.
Recent species occur in all climates, but are not numerous. Fossil
species are still more rare, occurring in the Calc-grossièr, Crag and
Oolite. E. fissurata, fig. 241.
ENA. Leach. A sub-genus of Bulinus. B. Lackhamensis. Mont.
ENDOSIPHONITES. A genus composed of Ammonites, having the siphon close
to the body whorl, fig. 476.
ENDOTOMA. Rafinesque. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
ENROULEES. Lam. See CONVOLUTÆ.
ENSATELLA. Sw. A genus consisting of SOLEN ensis, Auct. fig. 60, and
other species similarly curved. _Genus_ ENSIS, Schum.
ENSIS. Schum. SOLEN ensis, Auct. and similar species.
ENTALIS. Defr. DENTALIUM duplicatum, Bl. PHARETRIUM, König. This genus
is described as a small tube, within a larger one, the smaller
extremity of the inner tube projecting beyond that of the outer one.
Deshayes, who describes this genus, expresses a conviction that the
soft parts of the animal must be entirely different from those of the
animal of Dentalium. The genus PHARETRIUM, as described by König in his
"Icones Fossilium Sectiles," is evidently identical with Entalis. It is
placed by him in the family of Pteropoda, but being a fossil shell,
there is some difficulty in finding its place in the system. See
plates, fig. 3.
ENTELLITES. Fischer. A genus composed of species of TEREBRATULA,
SPIRIFER, and PRODUCTUS, Auct. having the hinge large and the umbones
short. ORTHIS? Dalman.
ENTIRE. (Integra.) Not interrupted, not emarginated. The peritrême of a
univalve shell is said to be entire when not interrupted by canals or
by the body whorl. _Ex._ Cyclostoma, fig. 304. The palleal impression
is entire, when continued without interruption, or without a sinus.
ENTOMOSTOMATA. Bl. The second family of the order Siphonibranchiata,
Bl. The shells of this family are described as differing but little
from those contained in the family of Siphonostomata of the same
author, both with regard to the soft parts, and their testaceous
covering. This family partly answers to the Purpuriferæ in the system
of Lamarck, and contains the genera Subula, Cerithium, Melanopsis,
Planaxis, Terebra, Eburna, Buccinum, Harpa, Dolium, Cassidaria, Cassis,
Ricinula, Cancellaria, Purpura, Concholepas.
EOLIDES. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
EPIDERMIS. ([Greek: Epi], _epi_, over or upon; [Greek: derma], _derma_,
skin.) The fibrous, horny, external coating of shells, called by the
French, "_Drap marin_," or marine cloth. Lamarck objects to the name
Epidermis because he does not consider the substance as answering to
the cuticle or scarf skin of the human body, but more analogous to the
nails and hair. Gray calls it the PERIOSTRACUM, from the membranous
skin covering the bones of quadrupeds.
EPIPHRAGM. The membranaceous or calcareous substance by which some
species of molluscs close the aperture of the shell, when they retire
within it to hibernate. When the animal wishes to come forth from his
hiding-place, again to breathe the air, the edges of the Epiphragm are
detached by a chemical process, so that it drops off. The name
Hibernaculum has also been given to this covering. It must not be
confounded with the operculum, which is a permanent portion of the
shell, and is used as a door, fitted to the foot of the animal and
moved at will to open or close the aperture of the shell, whereas the
Epiphragm is produced for the occasion from a mucous secretion of the
animal and dissolved at the edges when no longer wanted, when it drops
off.
EPISTYLA. Sw. A subgenus of the genus HELIX. E. conical. Sw. Helix
Epistylium, fig. 281.
EPONIDES. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
EQUILATERAL. (Æquus, equal; latus, side.) Equal-sided. A term applied
to bivalve shells, when a line drawn down perpendicularly from the apex
would divide the shell into two equal parts. _Ex._ Pectunculus pilosus,
fig. 134.
EQUIVALVE. (Æquus, equal; _valva_, a valve.) A term applied to a
bivalve shell when the valves are equal to each other in dimensions.
ERATO. Risso. _Fam._ Convolutæ, Lam.--_Descr._ Ovate, more or less
angulated, smooth or granulated, with a dorsal scar; spire short;
aperture large, angulated, emarginated; columella slightly crenated;
outer lip reflected, denticulated on the inner edge. Suture of the
whorls covered with enamel.--_Obs._ This genus of shells resembles
Marginella in form, but has no folds on the columella. Having a scar or
groove down the back it may be considered intermediate between
Marginella and Cypræa. Fig. 454, E. Maugeriæ. In the Author's
Conchological Illustrations, seven species are enumerated and figured.
ERUCA. Sw. A subgenus of Clausilia. Sw. Malac. p. 334.
ERVILIA. Turt. A genus described as "oval, equivalve, equilateral,
closed. Hinge with a single erect tooth closing between two small
diverging ones in the opposite valve: lateral teeth none. Ligament
internal. E. nitens. Turt. Mya. nitens, Auct."
ERYCINA. Lam. _Fam._ Mactracea, Lam. Conchacea, Bl.--_Descr._ Ovate or
triangular, transverse, equivalve, inequilateral, smooth; hinge with a
ligamentary pit, two diverging cardinal and two lateral teeth in each
valve; muscular impressions two in each valve; palleal impressions
sinuated. East and West Indies and Mediterranean.--_Obs._ This genus is
distinguished from _Mactra_ and _Lutraria_ by the cardinal teeth being
placed one on each side of the ligamentiferous pit; whereas in the last
named genera they are both placed on the anterior side. Fig. 86, E.
Plebeja.
ERYTHRÆA. The ancient name for CYPRÆA.
ESCUTCHEON. The impression on the posterior dorsal margin of some
bivalve shells. That on the anterior margin is named the lunule. The
escutcheon is pointed out by the letter _e_ in some of the figures of
Cythereæ. Fig. 117, _a. b. c._
ETHERIA. Lam. (_Æther_, air.) Fam. Chamacea, Lam. and Bl.--_Descr._
Irregular, inequivalve, inequilateral, foliaceous, pearly within,
covered by an olive green epidermis without; hinge callous, undulated,
destitute of teeth; ligament partly external, partly internal, passing
through the hinge on a somewhat raised, callous area in the lower
valve. Muscular impressions elongated, two in each valve, united by a
slender palleal impression. Rivers of Africa.--_Obs._ The irregular,
unequal air-bubbles of the inner surface, whence this genus derives its
name, are very brilliant in some species, and atone, in some measure,
for the rugged ugliness of the exterior. In its irregular form,
foliated structure, and toothless hinge, it resembles OSTREA, from
which it differs in having two muscular impressions. Fig. 155, E.
semilunata.
EULIMA. Risso. _Fam._ Scalariens, Lam.--_Descr._ Elongated, smooth,
pyramidal; spire long, composed of numerous whorls; apex acute,
slightly tortuous; aperture oval, rounded anteriorly, acute at the
posterior union with the body whorl; outer lip slightly thickened;
columella smooth. Fig. 347, E. labiosa, fig. 348, E. splendidula. A
complete illustrated monograph of this genus of pretty shining little
shells, consisting of 15 known species, is given in parts 52 and 53 of
the Conchological Illustrations by the author.
EUOMPHALUS. Sow. _Fam._ Scalariens, Lam.--_Descr._ Orbicular,
planorbular spire, with three or four volutions, imbricated above;
smooth below; aperture of a round polygonal form; umbilicus large,
penetrating to the apex of the shell.--_Obs._ This genus of fossils
very nearly resembles Delphinula. The main difference appears to be
that the whorls do not increase so rapidly in size in the former as in
the latter. Fossil, in the Carboniferous Limestone. Fig. 350.
EXOGYRA. Sow. A genus of fossil bivalves, resembling Chama in shape and
Ostræa in structure, having but one muscular impression in each valve.
Fig. 183.
EXSERTED. Standing out, protruding.
EXTERNAL. An external shell is one which contains the animal, and is
not covered by the mantle.
FASCIATED. (_fascia_, a band.) Banded or striped. Ex. Carocolla
marginata, fig. 277.
FASCICULATED. (from fasciculum.) A little bunch of hairs or bristles
against each end of each valve, characterizes some species of the genus
Chiton, which are termed fasciculated species.
FASCIOLARIA. Lam. _Fam._ Canalifera, Lam. Siphonostomata, Bl.--_Descr._
Elongated, fusiform, ventricose; spire conical, consisting of few
rounded or angulated whorls; aperture wide, terminating in a long
straight open canal: columella lip with several oblique folds, the
lower of which is larger than the rest; operculum horny,
pyriform.--_Obs._ This genus is known from Fusus by the folds on the
columella; from Turbinella, by their obliquity and the last being
larger than the rest. Fig. 386, F. Trapezium. East and West Indies and
Australia.
FAUNUS. Montf. MELANOPSIS, Auct.
FERRUGINEOUS. Of an iron rust colour.
FERUSSINA. Grateloup. STROPHOSTOMA, Deshayes.
FIBROUS. A shell is said to be of a fibrous structure when a fracture
would present a series of perpendicular fibres, as Pinna.
FICULA. Sw. A generic group of shells, consisting of those species of
PYRULA, Auct. which have the true pear-shaped character. Fig. 390, P.
Ficus. Sowerby confines the name Pyrula to these species.
FIMBRIA. Megerle. CORBIS, Lam.
FIMBRIATED. Fringed; as Murex fimbriatus, a delicate white species,
with broad fringed varices.
FISSURE. (_Fissura_, a slit.) A slit or cut, a narrow perforation, as
in Emarginula and Fissurella.
FISSURELLA. Brug. (_Fissura_, a fissure.) _Fam._ Calyptracia, Lam.
Branchifera, Bl.--_Descr._ Patelliform, oval or oblong, radiated; apex
anterior, perforated.--_Obs._ The Fissurellæ are known from Patellæ by
the perforation in the apex. Fig. 245. The catalogue published by the
author in the Conchological Illustrations, enumerates 68 species.
FISTULANA. Lam. (_Fistula_, a pipe.) _Fam._ Tubicolæ, Lam. Adesmacea,
Bl.--_Descr._ A transversely elongated, equivalve, inequilateral
bivalve, enclosed by a septum within the widest, closed extremity of a
straight calcareous tube. Fistulana is known from Gastrochæna by the
straightness of the tubes, and the oblong state of the valves. Fig. 54,
Fistulana Clava.
FLEXUOUS. Having windings or bendings. _Ex._ The Tellinæ are known by
the twist or flexuosity in the posterior ventral margin of the shell.
FLORILLUS. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
FLUVIATILE. (Fluviatilis.) Belonging to a river or running stream.
_Ex._ Limnæa fluviatilis.
FLUVIATILE CONCHACEA. See CONCHACEA.
FOLIATED, or FOLIACEOUS. (From _folium_, a leaf.) When the edges of the
successive layers of which a shell is composed are not compacted but
placed apart from each other, projecting like tiles, the shell is said
to be of a foliated structure. The common Oyster, fig. 180, presents a
familiar example.
FORAMINIFERA. D'Orb. (_Foramen_, a hole or pit.) An order established
for minute many chambered internal shells, which have no open chamber
beyond the last partition. Lamarck, D'Orbigny, and other writers have
placed them among the Cephalopoda in their systems, but Du Jardin, on
comparing the fossils with some recent species of the same class,
arrived at the conclusion, now generally adopted, that they constitute
a distinct class, much lower in degree of organization than even the
Radiata. Not recognizing these microscopic bodies as shells, properly
so called, but considering them sufficiently numerous and interesting
to form a distinct branch of study, I do not think it desirable to
describe the genera, or to present any arrangement of them in this
work.
FORNICATED. Arched or vaulted, as the exfoliations on the costæ of
Tridacna Elongata, fig. 157.
FOSSIL SHELL. A shell is considered to be in a fossil state when, the
soft parts having ceased to exist, it is deprived of all its animal
juices, has lost all, or nearly all its natural colour, and is thus
changed in its chemical composition, when little or nothing is left but
a mere bone, which is embedded in a sedimentary deposit. In this state,
it is fragile, prehensile to the tongue, and either destitute of colour
or tinged with the diluted mineral matters which pervade the stratum in
which it lies. In some cases, the mineral composition of the shell is
so completely changed as no longer to present its proper structure,
consisting of successive oblique layers of shelly matter; but is
altered into a fibrous structure, composed of rhomboidal particles. An
example of this will be found in the Belemnites, which if broken, shew
the perpendicular fibres. In other cases, the matter which has entered
and filled up the cavities of the shell has become silicified, or
changed into flint, and the shell itself has been decomposed and fallen
off, so as to leave nothing but an external or internal cast of its
form, in flint. This is called a Conchyliomorphite by continental
writers. Some of the most important of Geological data are obtained by
a minute comparison of fossil shells, found in various beds, with
recent ones presenting the nearest resemblance to them. Some species of
fossil shells are considered as identical with recent species. And many
Geologists seek to fix the chronology of the different strata by the
number of species which they inclose bearing a resemblance to the
recent species. Indeed, all who would study Geology with success, will
find it indispensably necessary to obtain a thorough knowledge of
Conchology.
FRAGELLA. Sw. A sub-genus of Monodonta, corresponding with the genus
Clanculus, Montf. consisting of M. Pharaonis (fig. 361), and similar
species. Sw. p. 352.
FRAGILE. (_Fragilis._) Tender, easily broken.
FREE SHELL. One that is not attached.
FREE VALVE. In attached bivalve shells, one only is fixed; the other is
then _free_, as far as to the action of opening and shutting.
FRESH-WATER SHELLS, (sometimes described as aquatic) are those which
either inhabit rivers, running pools and ditches, in which case they
are _fluviatile_; or wells and ponds of standing water, &c. Fresh-water
shells are either thin and horny in their texture, as the Limneana of
Lamarck; or are covered with a compact, smooth, horny epidermis. They
are generally simple in form, subject to corrosion where the epidermis
is wounded or broken, and are circumscribed with regard to the classes
and genera to which they belong. The family of Nayades includes nearly
all the fresh-water bivalves; and the Melaniana and Limneana are the
principal among univalves.
FRONDICULARIA. Defr. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
FRONT. The surface of a shell on which the aperture appears.
FULCRUM. That part of a shell on which any other part rests or turns.
The term is applied more particularly to the tumid part in the hinge of
bivalve shells on which the ligament is fixed.
FULGUR. Montf. PYRULA perversa, Auct. and such other species as have an
angulated spire. Fig. 388.
FUSIFORM. (_Fusus_, a spindle.) Shaped like a spindle, swelling in the
centre and tapering at the extremities. _Ex._ Fusus, fig. 387.
FUSUS. Brug. (A spindle.) _Fam._ Canalifera, Lam. Siphonostomata,
Bl.--_Descr._ Fusiform, turrited, with many rounded whorls; aperture
generally oval, terminating in a long straight canal; operculum horny,
pyriform.--_Obs._ The Fusi are subject to considerable variations in
form. The recent species are numerous and do not appear to be confined
to any climate. The fossil species are also numerous, chiefly abounding
in the tertiary formations. The recent species are mostly tropical.
Fig. 387, F. Colus.
GALATHÆA. Brug. POTAMOPHILA, Sow. MEGADESMA, Bowd.
GALEA. Klein. PURPURA, Auct.
GALEOLARIA. Lam. (From Galea, a helmet or crest.) A genus composed of
species of SERPULA, Auct. Distinguished as being fixed by the side of
the shell, and having the anterior extremity erect, the aperture
terminating in a tongue-shaped projection.--_Obs._ This genus is said
by Lamarck to resemble Vermilia in other respects, but to differ in
having the anterior part raised. Fig. 6, G. decumbens. Africa and
Australia.
GALEOMMA. Turt. _Fam._ PHOLADARIA, Lam.--_Descr._ Thin, oval,
equivalve, equilateral, with the ventral margin gaping; hinge with one
cardinal tooth in each valve; muscular impressions two, approximate;
palleal impression interrupted, not sinuated; ligament small, partly
internal, partly external, fixed on a prominent fulcrum.--_Obs._ The
wide hiatus in the ventral margins of this equilateral shell prevents
the possibility of confounding it with any other. Four or five recent
species are known, one of which is found on the coast of Sicily, and
also in the British Channel. G. Turtoni, fig. 58.
GALERICULUS. (_Galericulum_, a little cap or bonnet.) VELUTINA, Auct.
fig. 337.
GALERUS. Humph. CALYPTRÆA, Lam.
GAPING. (_Hians._) Bivalve shells are said to gape when the margins do
not meet all round. _Ex._ Gastrochæna, fig. 52.
GARI. Schum. PSAMMOBIA, Lam.
GASTEROPODA. Lam. ([Greek: Gastêr], _gaster_, belly; [Greek: pous,
podos], _pus_, _podos_, a foot.) The second order of the class
Mollusca, Lam. containing those molluscous animals whose organs of
locomotion are ventral. Most of the shells belonging to this order are
patelliform, placed upon the back of the animals, which rest or crawl
upon the belly. This order is divided into Pneumonobranchiata, that is,
those which breath air, or land molluscs; and Hydrobranchiata, or those
which breath water, marine or fresh-water molluscs. Fig. 227 to 263.
GASTRANEA. Schum.? CORBULA, Auct.
GASTROCHÆNA. Speng. ([Greek: Gastêr], _gaster_, belly; [Greek: chaino],
_chaino_, gape.) _Fam._ Pholadaria, Lam. Pyloridea, Bl.--_Descr._
Equivalve, regular, inequilateral, with a wide, oblique, ventral
hiatus, enclosed in a curved pyriform tube. Differing from Galeomma in
being a free, oblique shell; from Fistulana, in the oval shape of the
valves, and the curve of the tube; from Aspergillum and Clavagella, in
both valves being free.--_Obs._ The Gastrochænæ are found in the
hollows of massive shells or other marine substances. Fig. 62, G.
Modiolina.
GASTROPLAX. Bl. UMBRELLA, Lam. De Blainville described this genus from
a specimen in which the shell had been, probably by accident, placed
upon the under part of the animal, and not discovering his error until
afterwards, gave it the above name.
GEOMITRA. Sw. A sub-genus of Geotrochus, Sw. founded on a trochiform
species of Helix, with coronated nodules on the whorls. Helix
bicarinata, Sow. Zool. Journ. 1, pl. 3, fig. 7. Sw. page 166 and 332.
GEOPHONUS. Montf. Conch. Syst. t. 1, p. 19. A genus of microscopic
Foraminifera.
GEOTROCHUS. Sw. HELIX pileus, Auct. (fig. 278,) and other trochiform
species. Divided into the sub-genera Pithohelix, Geotrochus,
Hemitrochus, Gonidormus, and Geomitra. Sw. p. 165 and 166, described at
page 331.
GEOVULA. Sw. A sub-genus of Melampus (Auricula), consisting of oval
species, resembling Auricula Midæ, fig. 297.
GERVILLIA. Defr. _Fam._ Margaritacea, Bl. Malleacea, Lam.--_Descr._
Equivalve, oblong, oblique; hinge long, straight, having small,
irregular, transverse ligamentary pits.--_Obs._ This genus of fossil
shells, found at various geological periods, from the Lias to the
Baculite limestone in Normandy, is now extinct. In general form it
resembles Avicula, but in the hinge it approaches Perna. Fig. 169, G.
Avicularis.
GIBERULA. Sw. A genus separated from MARGINELLA, Auct. and thus
described, "sub-oval; spire slightly prominent; top of the outer lip
dilated and gibbous; base of the inner lip with plaits; inner lip
broad, spreading. G. Zonata. Enc. Méth. 374, f. 6."
GIBBOSE or GIBBOUS. (_Gibbosus._) Bunched out, embossed, having a lump
or swelling of any kind. _Ex._ Bulinus Lyonetianus, (fig. 284.) named
Gibbus by De Montfort. Ovulum gibbosum.
GIBBUS. Montf. BULINUS _Lyonetianus_, Lam. PUPA, Bl. fig. 284.
GIOENIA. A name given in the Encyclopédie Méthodique, to the plates of
the stomach of Bulla Lignaria.
GLABELLA. Sw. MARGINELLA Glabella (fig. 437), Goodallii, Auct. and
similar species.
GLANDINA. Schum. POLYPHEMUS, Montf.
GLANDIOLUS. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
GLAUCONOME. Gray. _Fam._ Solenacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Oblong or oval,
transverse, slightly ventricose, equivalve, inequilateral; margins
close, rounded anteriorly, somewhat acuminated posteriorly; hinge
teeth, three in each valve, of which the central in one, and the
posterior in the other, are bifid; muscular impressions anterior,
elongated, marginal; posterior sub-quadrate; palleal impression, having
a long sinus; ligament oblong, external; epidermis thin, horny, green,
folded over the margins.--_Obs._ This shell, of which only one species
is known, inhabits some of the rivers in China. C. Chinensis, fig. 64.
GLOBIGENERA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
GLOBOSE. (_Globosus._) Rounded like a globe or ball, as the species of
Helix, represented in fig. 268.
GLOBULARIA. Sw. A sub-genus of Natica, consisting of globose species.
(Sw. p. 345.) _Ex._ N. Lineata, fig. 328.
GLOBULUS. Sow. Min. Con. AMPULLARIA, Auct.
GLYCIMERIS. Lam. _Fam._ Solenacea, Lam. Pyloridea, Bl.--_Descr._
Equivalve, transverse, oblong, thick, compressed, gaping at both
extremities; hinge callous, without teeth; ligament large, external,
prominent; epidermis thick, black, horny, folded over the margins;
muscular impressions two, distant, running into the irregular palleal
impression which unites them.--_Obs._ But few species of this singular
genus are known; Lamarck describes two species from the Northern Seas.
Blainville is of opinion that they belong to the family of the Nayades.
Fig. 67, G. Siliqua.
GNATHODON. Gray. ([Greek: Gnathos], _gnathos_, jaw-bone; [Greek: odos],
[Greek: odontos], _odontos_, tooth.) _Fam._ Mactracea, Lam.--_Descr._
Ovate, posteriorly angulated, equivalve, thick, ventricose,
inequilateral, covered with a greenish brown epidermis; umbo distant,
prominent; hinge having in one valve a sharp, angular, notched,
cardinal tooth, and two lateral teeth, the posterior of which is
elongated, and the anterior angulated, tortuous, shaped like a
jaw-bone; in the other valve, two cardinal and two lateral teeth, the
anterior of which is wedge-shaped; ligament internal, cuneiform, placed
in a deep cardinal pit proceeding from the umbones; muscular
impressions two; palleal impression having a slight sinus.--_Obs._ Only
one species is known, G. cuneatus, fig. 83, from New Orleans. It is
known from all other shells by the character of the hinge.
GONIATITES. De Haan. A genus composed of species of Ammonites, Auct. in
which the last whorl covers the spire and the sinuations of the septa
are angulated. Fig. 480, G. striatus.
GONIDOMUS. Sw. A sub-genus of Geotrochus, Sw. PUPA pagodus, Auct. Sw.
p. 332.
GONIOSTOMA. Sw. A sub-genus of Bulimus, thus described, "spire
elongated, of few whorls; aperture contracted at each end; lips
margined; the pillar curving inwards; the base slightly notched. G.
erubescens, _Sw._ Zool. Journ. i. pl. 5, f. 2." Sw. p. 335.
GONIOSTOMATÆ. Bl. A family belonging to the order Asiphonibranchiata,
Bl. containing the genera Solarium and Trochus.
GONOSPIRA. Sw. A sub-genus of Pupa, thus described, "spire perfectly
cylindrical, of equal thickness, the tip obtuse, with the whorls large;
aperture oval; lips thickened; pillar with or without a plait. G.
polanga, _Desh._ Lesson, Voy. pl. 8, f. 8." Sw. p. 333.
GRANULATED. (_Granum_, a grain.) Covered with minute grains, rough. The
granulated lip of Oniscia, (fig. 409) will serve as an example.
GRATELOUPIA. Moulins. _Fam._ Nymphacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Equivalve,
inequilateral, sub-cuneiform, rounded anteriorly, sub-rostrated
posteriorly; hinge with three cardinal teeth, a series of five or six
irregular, small, diverging teeth behind the umbones, and one lateral
anterior tooth in each valve; ligament external; muscular impressions
two; palleal impression sinuated posteriorly.--_Obs._ This genus (Donax
irregularis, Bast.) is only known in a fossil state. Fig. 102, G.
Moulinsii.
GRYPHÆA. Lam. (From Gryps, a griffin.) _Fam._ Ostracea, Lam.--_Descr._
Inequivalve, free; lower valve large, concave; with the umbo prominent,
incurved; upper valve small, flat, opercular; hinge toothless, with a
curved, depressed area; one muscular impression.--_Obs_. These shells,
which approach the Oysters, are of a more regular form, and are
remarkable for the curved, produced beak of the lower valve. They are
only known in a fossil state, belonging to the more ancient strata.
Fig. 182, G. incurva. The recent species mentioned by Lamarck is not a
true Gryphæa.
GYMNOLEPAS. A generic name used by De Blainville to include OTION and
CINERAS, Leach.
GYMNOSOMATA. Bl. The second family of the order Aporobranchiata, in the
system of De Blainville. The animals belonging to this family are
destitute of shells.
GYPIDEA. Dalman. A genus of Brachiopoda, thus described, "Larger valve
with the umbo rostrated, remote from the hinge; with the canal large,
deltoid; bilocular within." PENTAMERUS, Sow. Fig. 210. 211, G.
Conchidium, copied from Dalman.
GYROGONA. Lam. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
GYROIDINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
HALIOTIDÆ. Sw. A sub-genus of Calyptræa. CALYPTRÆA dilatata. Sowerby's
Genera of Shells, fig. 9.
HALIOTIS. Auct. ([Greek: als], _als_, sea; [Greek: ous], [Greek: ôtos],
_otos_, ear.) _Fam._ Macrostomata, Lam. Otides, Bl.--_Descr._ Auriform,
broad, depressed, pearly within, rough, costated, tuberculated without;
spire short, flat, consisting of one or two whorls; aperture wide;
ovate; columella laminar, flat, oblique; a spiral series of
perforations running along the dorsal margin.--_Obs._ The splendid
shells belonging to this genus are remarkable for the pearly
iridescence of the inner surface, and the row of holes following the
course of the spire. The soft parts are eaten in Guernsey and Jersey,
and reckoned delicious. They belong to temperate and tropical climates.
Fig. 338, H. rubra. 339, Padollus, Montf.
HALIOTOID. (_Haliotis_ and [Greek: eidos], _eidos_, form.) Ear-shaped.
HAMIFORM. (_Hamus_, a hook.) Curved at the extremity.
HAMITES. Parkinson. (_Hamus_, a hook.) _Fam._ Ammonacea, Lam.--_Descr._
Elongated, cylindrical, chambered, recurved at the smaller extremity,
annulated; septa lobed and sinuated.--_Obs_. This remarkable fossil
from the Baculite limestone in Normandy, differs from Baculites in
being curved at one extremity, a circumstance from which its name is
derived. Some small species are found in Chalk-Marle, Folkstone. Fig.
484*. H. cylindricus.
HARPA. Brug. (_Harpa_, a harp.) _Fam._ Purpurifera, Lam. Entomostomata,
Bl.--_Descr._ Oval, ventricose, longitudinally and regularly costated;
spire short, with rounded, dome-like whorls; aperture wide,
emarginated; outer lip thickened, reflected, composing the last costa
or rib; inner lip polished, spread over part of the body whorl,
terminating in a point.--_Obs._ This beautiful genus of shells is so
clearly defined by the regular, longitudinal ribs that adorn the
external surface, suggesting the idea of a stringed instrument, that
there is no danger of confounding it with any other. H. multicostata,
(Buccinum costatum, Linn.) and H. ventricosa, are among the most
elegant of the testaceous productions of the sea both in form and
colouring; the former is rare. The recent species are not numerous,
they inhabit the Indian Ocean. A fossil species occurs at Grignon, near
Paris. Fig. 419, H. ventricosa.
HARPAX. Parkinson. Part of PLICATULA, Auct.
HARPULA. Sw. A group of shells separated from VOLUTA, Auct. thus
described, "shell generally tuberculated or longitudinally ribbed; apex
of the spire papillary, smooth, and in general distorted; pillar with
numerous distinct plaits; the upper, small and slender, the lower,
thickest and shortest."--_Type_, H. Vexillum. (Voluta, Auct.)
HAUSTATOR. Montf. A genus proposed to include those species of
TURRITELLA, Auct. which have angulated whorls.
HAUSTELLARIA. Sw. A sub-genus of Murex, consisting of species with long
canal and no spines. Murex Haustellum, fig. 396.
HAUSTRUM. Humph. PURPURA, Lamarck.
HELCION. Montfort. A genus composed of species of Patella, which have
the apex distinctly and prominently bent forwards. _Ex._ P. pellucida,
fig. 230.
HELENIS. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
HELICELLA. Fer. One of the sub-genera into which De Ferussac has
divided the genus Helix, consisting of depressed species with large
umbilicus, such as Helix Algira, fig. 279. Gonites Montf.
HELICIFORM. Shaped like shells of the genus Helix.
HELICIGONA. One of De Ferussac's sub-genera of the genus HELIX,
consisting of angulated species, such as Carocolla Lamarckii, fig. 277.
HELICINA. Lam. _Fam._ Colimacea, Lam. Ellipsostomata, Bl.--_Descr._
Globose, compressed, or angulated, generally light and thin; aperture
trigonal or semilunar; outer lip thickened and generally more or less
reflected; inner lip spread over the body whorl, frequently callous
near the columella, which is short, and terminates in a notch, angle,
or slight callosity.--_Obs._ This genus of land shells, distinguished
from the genus Helix, by having an operculum and a thickened columellar
lip, differs also from Cyclostoma in having the aperture semicircular
or angular, the peritreme discontinuous and the operculum concentric.
These shells are generally small in size, and simple in form. Lamarck
describes only three or four species. Mr. Gray described some others in
the Zoological Journal, and in a work shortly to be published by the
author, a monograph of the genus will contain descriptions and figures
of at least 60 distinct species; some of which have been lately brought
to this country by Mr. Cuming from the Philippine Islands. They mostly
belong to tropical climates.
HELICITES. Bl. Part of the genus NUMMULITES, Lam. ROTALITES and EGEON,
Montf.
HELICOGENA. Fer. A sub-genus of Helix, consisting of species, which,
like the common garden snail, fig. 268, are globose and simple in form.
HELICOLIMAX. Fer. VITRINA, Drap. H. Pellucida, fig. 263.
HELICOPHANTA. Fer. A sub-genus of Helix, consisting of ear-shaped
species with large open apertures.
HELICOSTYLA. Fer. A sub-genus of Helix, consisting of species with
numerous whorls, as H. Epistylium, fig. 281.
HELISOMA. Sw. A sub-genus of Planorbis. Sw. p. 337.
HELIX. Auct. _Fam._ Colimacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Orbicular, light,
generally globular; spire short, last whorl ventricose, aperture
oblique, peritreme reflected, interrupted by the most prominent part of
the body whorl; columella confluent with the outer lip, and contiguous
to the axis of the shell. No operculum; a thin epidermis.--_Obs._ The
land shells composing this genus are found in all parts of the world;
the common snail, H. Aspersa, is well known as a destructive animal in
our gardens. The genera Helix, Achatina, Bulinus, Clausilia, Anostoma,
&c., have been united under one generic name by De Ferussac, and again
divided under the following sub-generic names, each of which we shall
illustrate by a figure. GENUS HELIX: _Sub-genus_ 1, _Helicophanta_,
consisting of species with large apertures, like Vitrina; Helix
brevipes. _S. gen. 2_, _Cochlohydra_, Succinea Amphibia, Drap. _S. gen.
3_, _Helicogena_, consisting of the common species with the last whorl
large; Helix Hæmastoma, H. Contusa, (Streptaxis, Gray,) H. Aspersa. _S.
gen. 4_, _Helicodonta_, consisting of species with teeth or folds on
the columella; Polydonta, Montf. Anostoma, Helix Nux-denticulata. _S.
gen. 5_, _Helicigona_, Carocolla, Geotrochus. _S. gen. 6_, _Helicella_,
consisting of depressed species with a large umbilicus; H. Citrina
(Naninia, Gray.) _S. gen. 7_, _Helicostyla_, consisting of species with
a simple aperture, like the Helicogenæ, but with the whorls increasing
very gradually; H. epistylium. _S. gen. 8_, _Cochlostyla_, Bulinus. _S.
gen. 9_, _Cochlitoma_, Achatina. _S. gen. 10_, _Cochlicopa_, Polyphemus
Glans. _S. gen. 11_, _Cochlicella_, Bulinus decollatus. _S. gen. 12_,
_Cochlogena_, Azeca tridens. _S. gen. 13_, _Cochlodonta_, Pupa Uva. _S.
gen. 14_, _Cochlodina_, Clausilia macascarensis, Balea fragilis. The
last three sub-genera are included in the genus Odostomia of Fleming.
We give an example of each of these sub-divisions, for the sake of
presenting the reader with the principal variations to which the genus
is subject. The established genera will be characterized in their
places. Fig. 254 to 281.
HELIXARION. Fer. VITRINA, Drap. Differing from Helicolimax in the
structure of the animal. Fig. 262.
HEMICARDIUM. Cuv. ([Greek: hêmisus], _hemisus_, half, [Greek: Kardia],
_cardia_, heart.) CARDIUM Hemicardium, fig. 123**, and several similar
species.
HEMICYCLA. Sw. A sub-genus of Helix.
HEMICYCLONOSTA--see CARDILIA.
HEMICYCLOSTOMATA. Bl. The fourth family of Asiphonibranchiata, Bl.
described as "more or less globular, thick, flattened on the under
side; spire very short; aperture large, semilunar, entire; its outer
edge hollowed; its inner or columellar edge straight, sharp and
septiform." This family answers to the genus _Nerita_ of Linnæus, and
to the family Neritacea of Lamarck. It contains the genera Natica,
Nerita, Neritina, and Navicella.
HEMIMACTRA. Sw. A sub-genus of Mactra, thus described: "General form of
_Mactra_; but the cardinal teeth entirely wanting; cartilage internal,
central, in a large triangular cavity; lateral teeth 2/1, distinct,
lateral, striated: connected to the _Glycimeri_. H. gigantea, _Lam._ v.
472. No. 1. grandis, _Sw._ Sp. Nov." Sw. p. 369.
HEMIMITRA. Sw. A sub-genus of Paludomus, Sw. (Melanianæ.)
HEMIODON. Sw. A sub-genus of Anodon, described as having "Tubercles or
undulations on the hinge margin. H. undulatus, purpurascens and
areolata."
HEMISINUS. Sw. A sub-genus of Melania, thus described: "General shape
of _Melania_; but the base of the aperture is contracted and
emarginate; outer lip crenated. H. lineolata, Griff. Cuv. xii. pl. 13.
fig. 4."
HEMITOMA. Sw. A sub-genus of Emarginula, thus described: "Patelliform;
the fissure not cut through the shell, but merely forming an internal
groove. H. tricostata, _Sw._ Sow. Gen. fig. 6."
HEMITROCHUS. Sw. A sub-genus of Geotrochus, Sw. H. hæmastoma. Sw. p.
331.
HEPTALASMIS. Leach. ([Greek: Hêpta], _hepta_, seven; [Greek: elasma],
_elasma_, plate) A small shell resembling Pentelasmis, from which it
differs in the number of valves, being composed of seven valves
according to Leach, and of eight according to Gray, who counts the
dorsal valve, which is jointed, as _two_, and names his genus
Octolasmis. Fig. 41, H. Warwickii.
HERCOLES. Montf. A microscope shell, appearing from De Montfort's
figure to resemble TROCHUS _Imperialis_ in shape.
HERION. Montf. LENTICULINA, Bl. Microscopic.
HERMAPHRODITA. Bl. The third sub-class of Paracephalophora, Bl. divided
into, Sect. 1, _symmetrical_, containing the orders Cirrobranchiata and
Cervicobranchiata; Sect. 2, _non-symmetrical_, order, Scutibranchiata.
HERMES. Montf. A genus composed of CONUS _Nussatella_, Auct. and other
elongated, cylindrical, striated species. Fig. 460.
HETEROBRANCHIATA. Bl. The fourth order of the class Acephalophora, Bl.
containing no testaceous mollusca.
HETEROPODA. Lam. The fifth order of the class Mollusca, Lam. This order
contains but one genus of shells, viz. Carinaria, fig. 488.
HETEROSTEGINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
HIATELLA. Daud. Fam. Lithophagidæ, Lam. A genus composed of species of
Saxicava, Auct. which have sharp, angulated, posterior ridges, a
circumstance which occurs to many species in a young state, which
afterwards become rounded off. Fig. 95, Hiatella biaperta.
HIATULA. Sw. A genus proposed to include those species of Oliva, Auct.
which have widened apertures. _Ex._ O. Subulata, fig. 458.
HIBOLITHES. Montf. A genus composed of species of Belemnites, Auct.
which are swelled towards the apex, and contracted near the centre. B.
Hastatus, Auct. fig. 468.
HIMANTOPODA. Schum. MALLEUS, Auct.
HINGE. The edge of the bivalve shells near the umbones, including the
teeth and ligament.
HINNITES. Defr. A generic name proposed for PECTEN PUSIO, Auct.
remarkable for the irregularity of the outer surface, which would
almost lead to the belief of its being an attached shell. Fig. 173, H.
Pusio.
HIPPAGUS. Lea. (_Horse boat._) A minute fossil shell, resembling
Isocardia in form, but destitute of hinge teeth. H. Isocardioides, fig.
128.
HIPPOCHRENES. Montf. Species of ROSTELLARIA, Auct. with the outer lip
spread. Fig. 403. R. Columbaria.
HIPPONYX. ([Greek: Hippos], _hippos_, horse; [Greek: onux], _onyx_,
nail or hoof.) _Fam._ Rudistes, Lam.--_Descr._ Inequivalve,
sub-equilateral, rather irregular, destitute of ligament and hinge
teeth; lower valve attached, flat, sub-orbicular, with a muscular
impression, composed of two lunulate portions, meeting at one
extremity, and presenting the form of a horse-shoe; upper valve
conical, with the apex inclined backwards, and the muscular impression
marginal.--_Obs._ The earlier naturalists having only met with the
upper valve of these shells, placed them among the patelliform
univalves; to some of which, particularly Pileopsis, they bear a very
strong resemblance. The species of Hipponyx are numerous, and till
lately only known in a fossil state. The recent species belong to
tropical climates: the fossil species are found in the tertiary beds.
Fig. 199, H. Cornucopia.
HIPPOPODIUM. Conybeare. _Fam._ Cardiacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Equivalve,
obliquely transverse, heavy, deep, inequilateral, umbones incurved;
ventral margin sinuated, so as to give a bilobed appearance to the
shell; hinge incrassated, with one rugged oblique tooth.--_Obs._ These
fossils are found in the upper beds of Lias. Fig. 129, H. Ponderosum.
HIPPOPUS. Lam. ([Greek: Hippos], hippus; [Greek: pous], _pous_, foot.)
_Fam._ Tridacnacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Equivalve, inequilateral, regular,
subquadrate; lunule closed, flat, with crenulated edges; ventral margin
deeply undulated; external surface fluted, with radiating ribs, which
are transversely fringed with rows of tubular spines; hinge margin
thick, with two long, compressed posterior lateral teeth in one valve,
three in the other; ligament marginal, external.--_Obs._ The shell thus
described is rightly separated from Tridacna, on account of the
anterior dorsal margins being closed; whereas in Tridacna there is a
wide hiatus. Only one species of this genus is known, which receives
its name from its resemblance in form to a horse's foot, when held with
the flat anterior dorsal margin downwards. Few shells are found to
concentrate so many beauties as the Hippopus Maculatus, commonly called
the Bear's-paw-clam; the delicate whiteness of the interior, the
undulating edge, the radiated fluted columns, adorned at intervals by
crisped fringes, and the richness of the variegated colouring, are such
as to secure the admiration of the most superficial observer. From the
Indian Archipelago. Fig. 156, H. Maculatus.
HIPPURITES. Montf. _Fam._ Orthocerata, Lam. Rudistes, Bl.--_Descr._
Tabular, rude, irregular, attached; lower valve cylindrical, more or
less lengthened, apparently divided into sections by septa (considered
by some authors as merely projecting layers of growth) having one or
two lateral tubes within; upper valve round, flat, fixed on the
aperture of the tubular valve like an operculum.--_Obs._ This genus is
known only in a fossil state, and but very imperfectly. Lamarck places
it among his chambered Cephalopoda, &c. De Blainville, considering it a
true Bivalve, enumerates it among his Rudistes. Cretaceous group. Fig.
198, H. Cornucopia.
HORTOLUS. Montf. SPIROLINA, Lam. Microscopic.
HYALÆA. Auct. (_Hyalus_, glass.) _Fam._ Pteropoda, Lam. Thecosomata,
Bl.--_Descr._ Globose, glassy, transparent, with a triangular opening
at the upper part where the dorsal portion advances beyond the ventral;
ventral portion vaulted; dorsal more flat; lower extremity
tridentate.--_Obs._ The singular structures composing this genus were
formerly taken for bivalves, and named Anomia Tricuspidata, &c. They
are now known to belong to the class of molluscous animals, called
Pteropoda, from the wing-shaped organs of locomotion. A species of
Hyalæa occurs in Sicily in a fossil state. Recent species are found in
the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. Fig. 226, H.
Tridentata.
HYALINA, Studer. VITRINA, Drap.
HYALINE. (_Hyalus_, glass.) Glassy, thin, transparent--_Ex._ Carinaria
Mediterranea, fig. 488.
HYDROBRANCHIATA. Bl. The first section of the order Gasteropoda, Lam.
containing Molluscs which breathe water only; divided into the families
Tritoniana, Phyllidiana, Semi-phyllidiana, Calyptracea, Bullæana, and
Aplysiana.
HYGROMANES. Fer. A sub-division of Helix, containing H. limbata, Auct.
&c. Gray's Turton, p. 143.
HYRIA. Lam. A genus composed of species of Nayades, distinguished by
their alated dorsal margins, and lamellated lateral teeth. South
America. HYRIA corrugata, fig. 143, Hyria Syrmatophora, fig. 144.
HYRIDELLA. Sw. A genus of "Hyrianæ," Sw. described as differing from
HYRIA, Auct. in having a cardinal as well as a lateral tooth in each
valve. Sw. p. 380.
HISTRIX. Humph. RICINULA, Auct.
JANERA. Schum. A genus composed of species of Pecten, Auct. having
oblique plicæ or calli on each side of the ligamentary pit. _Ex._ P.
plica, fig. 172. Decadopecten, Rüppell.
JANTHINA. Auct. (_Janthum_, a violet.) _Fam._ Neritacea, Lam.
Oxystomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Sub-globose, thin, fragile; spire short,
consisting of few whorls; aperture angulated, at the anterior junction
of the inner and outer lips; columella tortuous, contiguous to the
axis; outer lip thin, sinuated in the centre.--_Obs._ The shells
composing this genus are celebrated for their beautiful purple colour.
The animal possesses a small vesicular process, which keeps it floating
on the surface of the water; it exudes a purple secretion when
irritated. It is occasionally floated on to the shores of most
temperate and tropical countries. Fig. 333, J. Fragilis.
JATARONUS. Adanson. CHAMA, Auct.
IBERUS. Montf. CAROCOLLA, Lam.
IBLA. Leach. _Fam._ Pedunculated Cirripedes, Lam.--_Descr._ Four
valves, posterior pair elongated, anterior pair short, triangular;
pedicle cylindrical, contracted at the base, hairy.--_Obs._ I.
Cuveriana (fig. 40) is brought from Kangaroo Island.
ICTHYOSARCOLITES. Desmarest. _Fam._ Ammonacea, Lam.--_Descr._
Chambered, slightly arcuate, laterally compressed; septa simple,
leaving triangular articulations imbricated like the thick muscles of a
fish.
JESITES. Montf. A minute fossil resembling GALEOLARIA.
ILOTES. Montf. ORBICULINA, Bl. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
IMBRICARIA. Schum. CONOHELIX, Sw.
IMBRICATED. (_Imbrex_, a tile.) A shell is said to be imbricated when
the superficial laminæ are arranged over each other in the manner of
tiles.
IMPERATOR. Montf. A genus composed of species of the genus TROCHUS,
Auct. with whorls angulated and stellated, having an umbilicus. _Ex._
T. Imperialis. Some of the shells named Imperator in the British Museum
belong to the genus Calcar, Montf. having no umbilicus.
IMPRESSION. See MUSCULAR IMPRESSION.
INCRASSATED. (_Crassus_, thick.) Thickened, as the hinge of Glycimeris,
fig. 67.
INCURVED. Turned inwards or bent forwards. Applied to symmetrical
shells, when the point of the apex turns towards the anterior
extremity, as in Patella. The apex of a shell is said to be incurved
when it is bent inwards, but not sufficiently so to be described as
spiral. _Ex._ Ammonoceras, Lam. fig. 477.
INDENTED. (_In_, in; _dens_, a tooth.) Exactly the reverse of DENTATED;
meaning a series of small cavities, such as might be produced by the
entrance of teeth. The cast of a dentated surface would be indented.
INEQUILATERAL. (_Æquus_, equal; _latus_, a side.) A term applied to a
bivalve shell when its extent on one side of the umbones is greater
than that on the other. When the sides are nearly equal, the term
_sub-equilateral_ is used.
INEQUIVALVE. (_in_; _æquus_, equal; _valva_, valve.) The two principal
valves differing from each other in diameter or convexity.
INFERIOR VALVE is that which is attached to sub-marine bodies. Only
applied to attached bivalves.
INFEROBRANCHIATA. Bl. The fourth family of the second section of
Paracephalophora Monoica, Bl. containing no testaceous mollusca.
INFLATED. Swelled, as Bulla, fig. 250, 252. This term can only be
applied to rotund shells of a light, thin texture. In other cases we
should use the word VENTRICOSE.
INFLECTED. Turned inwards. This term is applied to the outer lip of a
spiral shell when it turns towards the body whorl. This is the case in
Cypræa, fig. 446. See REFLECTED.
INFUNDIBULUM. Montf. (_A funnel._) A genus formed of those species of
CALYPTRÆA, Lam. which, having a spiral septum, so nearly resemble
Trochus that some authors have placed them in that genus. One species
named Patella Trochiformis. Recent from South America, fossil from the
tertiary beds. Fig. 237, 238, Calyptræa (Infundibulum) Pileus.
INNER LIP. That edge of the aperture of an univalve shell which is near
to the imaginary axis, as distinguished from the outer lip, or that
which is on the opposite side.
INOCERAMUS. Sow. _Fam._ Malleacea, Lam. Margaritacea, Bl.--_Descr._
Thick, inequivalve, sub-equilateral, triangular, deep, with the umbones
incurved; hinge formed of a series of transverse grooves.--_Obs._ The
larger valves of these fossil shells resemble the larger valve of
Gryphæa; but the hinge is quite distinct. The species described in
Mineral Conchology are found in the blue marl, at Folkstone, and in the
chalk. I. Lamarckii, (Catillus, Brong.) fig. 167.
INTERNAL CAST. The mould of a fossil shell, composed of matter which
entered the shell in a soft state, and has subsequently hardened, when,
the shell dropping off, the hardened substance which filled it is left
to represent its internal form.
INTERNAL LIGAMENT. A term used by some conchological writers signifying
that the ligament of a bivalve shell is placed within the closed part
of the hinge, so as not to be seen when the valves are shut. But the
substance, formerly called the internal ligament, is now distinguished
from the true ligament both in structure and use; and is now more
properly called the cartilage, so that when the ligament is said to be
internal, it must be understood that the internal cartilage is
unaccompanied by any ligament properly so called, and when a shell is
described as having two ligaments, as in the case of Amphidesma, it
means that the two substances are so far removed from each other in the
hinge that they are no longer confounded together.
INTERNAL SHELL is one which is enclosed in the soft parts of the
animal, as a bone is enclosed in the flesh of a human body. The Limax,
or common garden slug, which has a testaceous shield beneath its
mantle, is an instance of this.
IO. Lea. A genus composed of several species of fresh-water shells
which are considered as differing from Melaniæ in having the anterior
termination of the aperture produced into a point in some degree
resembling the caudal canals of shells belonging to the family of
Canalifera, which are marine. Io fusiformis and spinosus are described
and figured in Lea's work on the genus Unio.
JODAMIA. Defr. A genus resembling Birostrites, except that in Jodamia
one valve overwraps the other, while in Birostrites the circumference
of the valves is equal.
IPHIGENIA. Gray. A sub-genus of Clausilia, C. biplicata, &c. Auct.
Gray's Turton, p. 214.
IRIDEA. Sw. A genus of "Hyrianæ," Sw. thus described:--"Oblong ovate;
bosses small, depressed, sulcated; inner cardinal tooth placed beneath
the outer. I. granosa, _Lam._ En. Méth. 248. fig. 9."
IRIDINA. Auct. A genus belonging to the Nayades, and resembling the
ANODONTÆ, Auct. but its peculiar characteristic is that the hinge
lamina is tuberculated or crenulated in its whole length. Sowerby
unites all the genera of the family into the genus UNIO. Fig. 150, I.
Elongata.
IRREGULAR SHELLS, are those which, being attached to, or imbedded in
other marine bodies, have no constant form, but are modified in shape
according to the substances to which they are fixed, as the Chamacea,
fig. 153 to 155.
IRUS. Oken. Comprehending PANDORA, PETRICOLA, SAXICAVA, &c.
ISOCARDIA. Lam. ([Greek: Isos], _isos_, similar; [Greek: Kardia],
_cardia_, heart.) _Fam._ Cardiacea, Lam. Chamacea, Bl.--_Descr._
Cordiform, regular, equivalve, ventricose, with distant, diverging,
involute, free umbones; hinge with two compressed cardinal, and one
distant, compressed lateral teeth in each valve; ligament external,
bifid, diverging in the direction of the umbones.--_Obs._ The shells
composing this genus are remarkable for the beautiful curvature of the
diverging umbones. European and Chinese Seas. Fig. 126, I. Moltkiana.
KEEL. A flattened ridge, resembling the keel of a ship. As that on the
back of Carinaria vitrea, fig. 488, and those on the whorls of some
spiral shells. A shell characterized by a keel or keels is said to be
carinated.
KELLIA. Turton, MYA Suborbicularis, Montague.
LABIS. Oken. MONODONTA, Lam.
LABIUM, or inner lip,--is used to express that side of the aperture
which is nearest to the axis and generally contiguous to the body
whorl. The lower part of this, when sufficiently distinct from that
part which overwraps the body whorl, is called the Columella.
LABRUM, or outer lip,--is the edge of the aperture at the greatest
distance from the axis.
LACINEA. Humph. CHAMA, Lam.
LACUNA. Turt. _Fam._ Turbinacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Globose, thin, covered
with a smooth epidermis; spire short, consisting of few rapidly
increasing whorls; aperture semilunar, rounded at the extremities;
columella oblique, reflected over part of the umbilicus; umbilicus
forming a lengthened area behind the columella. Northern shores. Fig
364, L. Pallidula.
LAGENULA. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
LAMELLATED. (_Lamella_, a thin plate.) When the layers of which a shell
is composed, instead of being compacted into a solid mass, are
separated, overlying each other in the manner of tiles, with the edges
prominent, the structure is said to be lamellated or foliaceous.
LAMELLIBRANCHIATA. Bl. The third order of the class Acephalophora, Bl.
consisting of bivalve shells, divided into the families Ostracea,
Subostracea, Margaritacea, Mytilacea, Polydontes, Submytilacea,
Chamacea, Conchacea, Pylorides, Adesmacea.
LAMELLIPEDES. Lam. (_Lamella_, a thin plate, _pes_, a foot.) The third
section of the order Conchifera Dimyaria, containing bivalves, with the
foot of the animal broad and thin; divided into the families Conchacea,
Cardiacea, Arcacea, Trigonacea, Nayades. Fig. 111. to 152.
LAMPAS. Montf. LENTICULINA, Bl. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
LAMPRODOMA. Sw. A genus of "Olivinæ," Sw. thus described:--"Mitriform;
spire produced, conic; resembling MITRELLA in shape, but the suture is
channelled; the aperture effuse at the base, contracted above; lower
half of the pillar with 6 to 7 plaits. Volutella, Zool. Ill. ii.
series, pl. 40. f. 1. (_fig. 86._ )" Sw. p. 321.
LAMPROSCAPHA. Sw. A sub-genus of "Anodontinæ," Sw. thus
described:--"Shell not winged, elongate, pod-shaped; teeth none; bosses
near the anterior extremity. Tropical America only? L. ? elongata.
_Sw._ Zool. Ill. i. 176. ensiforme, _Spix._ Braz. Test. siliquosa.
Braz. Test. pygmæa. Ib." Sw. p. 381.
LAMPROSTOMA. Sw. A sub-genus of Canthorbis (Trochus), described at p.
350, Lardn. Cyclop. Malac.
LAMPUS. Humph. TEREBRATULA, Lam.
LANCEOLATE. Lengthened like a lance.
LANISTES. Montf. Reversed species of AMPULLARIA, fig. 319.
LAPLYSIA. See APLYSIA.
LAPLYSIACEA. Lam. (properly Aplysiacea) A family belonging to the first
section of the order Gasteropoda, Lam. containing the genera Aplysia
and Dolabella. Fig. 254, 255.
LARVA. Humph. FISSURELLA, Lam.
LATERAL. (_Latus_, a side.) The lateral teeth are those which, taking
their rise near the umbones, proceed to some distance towards the sides
of the shell; as distinguished from the cardinal teeth, which receive
their full developement close to the umbones. Lateral muscular
impressions are those which are placed at a distance from each other,
on the opposite sides of the shell.
LATIAXIS. Sw. A genus of "Eburninæ," Sw. corresponding with the genus
Trichotropis. Sow. (Sw. Malac. p. 306.)
LATIRUS. Montf. A genus composed of species of FUSUS, Auct. which have
an umbilicus and are turriculated.
LAURIA. Gray. A sub-genus of PUPA, containing P. umbilicata, &c.
(Gray's Turton, p. 193.)
LEGUMINARIA. Schum. A genus composed of species of SOLEN, Auct. which
have an internal longitudinal bar or rib. Fig. 61. S. Radiatus, Lam.
LEILA. Gray? Described as having the hinge edge smooth like Iridina,
but having a "sharp siphonal inflexion." (Syn. B. M. p. 142.)
LEIODOMUS. Sw. A genus of "Buccininæ," Sw. consisting of Terebra
vittata and other similar species. This genus corresponds with Bullia,
Gray.
LEIOSTOMA. Sw. A genus of "Fusinæ," Sw. thus described, "Equally
fusiform," (with Fusus) "but ventricose in the middle; shell entirely
smooth, almost polished; inner lip thickened, and vitreous; base of the
pillar very straight. Fossil only. (_fig. 75._) L. bulbiformis. En.
Méth. 428. f. 1."
LEMBULUS. Leach. A genus composed of oval species of NUCULA, resembling
N. margaritacea, fig. 137.
LENDIX. Humph. PUPA, Lam.
LENGTH. See MEASUREMENT.
LENTICULAR. (_Lens._) Of a circular, convex form, as Pectunculus, fig.
134.
LENTICULINA. Lam. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.--_Descr._
Lenticular, sub-discoidal, compressed, convolute, symmetrical; aperture
notched; chambers few in number; visible on the exterior, radiating
from the centre of the disk.
LEPADICEA. Bl. The first family of the class Nemantopoda, Bl. This
family consists of the same animals which constitute the Pedunculated
Cirripedes of Lamarck, and part of the genus Lepas in the system of
Linnæus. It contains the genera Gymnolepas, Pentalepas, Polylepas and
Litholepas.
LEPAS. ([Greek: Lepas], _lepas_, a rock.) The Linnæan name Lepas
contains all the Cirripedes or Multivalves, the different kinds of
which are not distinguished in the accounts given by early writers of
the habits of the animals. (Fig. 14 to 43.) It was formerly applied to
the Limpets or Patella. In fact, the ancient definition was "Concha
petræ adhærens," and would apply to any shells attached to rocks.
LEPTÆNA. Dalman. A genus belonging to the Brachiopoda; and thus
described:--"Hinge compressed, rectilinear, frequently exceeding the
width of the shell." It forms part of the genus Producta, Sow. Fig.
206, L. depressa.
LEPTOCONCHUS. Rüppell. ([Greek: Leptos], _leptus_, thin; [Greek:
Konchos], _conchos_, shell.) This shell resembles a young MAGILUS in
general appearance, although the animal is said to differ. In the young
Magilus also, the inner lip is reflected over the body whorl, which is
not the case in Leptoconchus. Red Sea. Fig. 11.
LEPTOCONUS. Sw. A sub-genus of Conus, consisting of Conus grandis,
amadis, duplicatus, Australis, &c. Sw. p. 312.
LEPTOLIMNEA. Sw. A sub-genus of Limnea, described as being nearly
cylindrical. Limnea elongata, Sow. Gen. fig. 6.
LEPTON. Turton. SOLEN Squamosus, Montague, and other species described
as "flat, nearly orbicular, equivalve, inequilateral, a little open at
the sides. Hinge of one valve with a single tooth, and a transverse
linear lateral one on each side; of the other valve, with a cavity in
the middle and a transverse deeply cloven lateral tooth each side, the
segments of which divaricate from the beak." To represent this genus we
have figured L. Squamosum in the plates, fig. 62. British.
LEPTOSPIRA. Sw. A sub-genus of Bulinus, thus described: "Spire
excessively long, sub-cylindrical; body whorl largest; outer lip
thickened; aperture oval; no teeth, striata, _Sw._ Chem. 135. f. 1226.
signata _Sw._" Sw. p. 335.
LEUCOSTOMA. Sw. A genus of "Achatina," Sw. described as resembling
Achatinella, but having a "thick pad" at the top of the "upper lip,"
and another over the base. L. variegata, Sw. Lardn. Cyclop. Malac. fig.
24. p. 172.
LEUCOTUS. Sw. A sub-genus of Natica, described as intermediate between
Sigaretus and Lacuna. SIGARETUS _cancellatus_, Lam. (Sw. Malac. p.
346.)
LICIUM. Humph. OVULA, Lam. (Ovulum.)
LIGAMENT. (From _Ligo_, to bind.) The true ligament is always external,
and serves the purpose of binding the two valves of a shell together
externally by the posterior dorsal margins. There is another substance,
called by Gray the _Cartilage_, which is elastic and of a condensed
fibrous structure, placed within the ligament, either close to it, or
at a more interior part of the shell; it is sometimes contained in a
pit, formed for its reception, in the centre of the hinge. This
substance, being elastic, keeps the valves open, unless drawn together
by the counteracting force of the adductor muscles. When conchologists
speak of a shell as having the ligament external, the real meaning is
that these two substances are so close together as in appearance to
constitute one body placed outside the shell so as to be seen when the
valves are closed. When two ligaments are spoken of, as in Amphidesma,
the meaning is that the cartilage occupies a separate place on the
hinge.
LIGAMENTIFEROUS. (_Ligamentum_, a ligament, _fero_, to bear.) Having or
containing the ligament, as the cardinal pit in Mya, fig. 71.
LIGULA. Leach. A genus containing the more rounded and less gaping
species of LUTRARIA, Auct. Fig. 77, Lutraria Papyracea.
LIGULATE. (_Ligula_, a slip, a shoe-latchet.) Thin, slender, like a
slip, or neck of any thing, as the anterior muscular impression of
Lucina, fig. 104.
LIGUMIA. Sw. A sub-genus of Unio, thus described:--"Very long and
pod-shaped; bosses depressed; cardinal teeth moderate. S. recta. Lam.
vi. 1. p. 74." Sw. p. 378.
LIGUUS. Montf. A genus containing species of ACHATINA, Auct. which have
rounded apertures and lengthened spires, differing from his POLYPHEMI,
which have lengthened apertures. A. virginea, Auct. fig. 286, is the
type of this genus.
LIMA. Brug. (_Lima_, a file.) _Fam._ Pectinides, Lam. Subostracea,
Bl.--_Descr._ Equivalve, inequilateral, compressed,
oblique-auriculated, oval, radiately ribbed or striated, imbricated,
covered with a light brown epidermis; hinge with a triangular disc
between the umbones, divided in the centre by a triangular ligamentary
pit without teeth; muscular impression one, sublateral,
sub-orbicular.--_Obs._ The shells thus described are marine, two or
three species being found on our coasts, and fossil species occurring
in Lias, inferior Oolite, Calcaire-grossiér, &c. They differ from
Pecten in having a wide hiatus for the passage of a byssus, by which
they are occasionally attached, and also in the triangular disc, which
separates the umbones. The animal makes use of the valves of his shell
as natatory organs, working them like fins or paddles, and by this
means proceeding at a rapid rate through the waters. L. Squamosa, fig.
174.
LIMACINA. Cuv. (_Limax_, a snail.) _Fam._ Pteropoda, Lam.--_Descr._
Papyraceous, fragile, planorbicular, sub-carinated, obliquely
convolute; spiral side rather prominent, the other side umbilicated;
aperture large, entire, not modified, peristome sharp.--_Obs._ This is
SPIRATELLA, Bl. The shell figured as Limacina in Sowerby's Genera,
under "pteropoda," is an _Atlanta_. Our representation of Spiratella
Limacinea, fig. 224. is copied from Blainville.
LIMACINEA. Lam. A family of the order Gasteropoda, Lam. including the
following
1. CRYPTELLA. Spire mammillated; a septum. Fig. 256.
2. PARMACELLA. Flat, haliotoid, spiral. Fig. 257, 258.
3. TESTACELLUS. Sub-spiral. Fig. 261.
4. LIMAX. Incomplete. Fig. 259.
5. PLECTROPHORUS. Conical. Fig. 260.
6. VITRINA. Heliciform, hyaline. Fig. 262, 263.
LIMACINEA. Bl. The third family of the order Pulmobranchiata, Bl.
Described as containing shells very variable in form, most frequently
inclining to globular or oval; the apex always obtuse; aperture
variable, but never emarginated. All the Limacinea are phytophagous and
terrestrial. This family answers to the genus Helix of Linnæus and to
the Colimacea of Lamarck, leaving out the Auriculacea. It contains the
genera Succinea, Bulinus, Achatina, Clausilia, Pupa, Partula, Helix,
Vitrina, Testacella, Limacella, Limax.
LIMAX. _Lam._ Limacinea, Lam. and Bl.--_Descr._ Internal irregular,
sub-quadrate, scutiform, crystalline; apex rounded, indistinct;
epidermis, light brown, thin, extending beyond the margin.--_Obs._ The
shell is placed under the scutellum of the common garden slug. Fig. 25,
L. Antiquorum.
LIMNACEA. Bl. The first family of the order Pulmobranchiata, Bl. The
shells of this family are described as thin, with the outer lip always
sharp. It contains the genera Limnea, Physa, Planorbis.
LIMNEANA. Lam. A family of the order Trachelipoda, Lam. containing the
following genera:--
1. LIMNÆA. Spire produced; including _Physa_. Fig. 308 to 310.
2. PLANORBIS. Spire orbicular; including _Planaria_. Fig. 311, 312.
LIMNEA. Lam. ([Greek: Limnas], _limnas_, lacustrine.) _Fam._ Limnacea,
Lam. and Bl.--_Descr._ Oblong, light, thin; spire variable in length,
acute; last whorl large, aperture large, longitudinal, entire; inner
lip spread over a portion of the last whorl; columella forming an
oblique fold; outer lip rounded at each extremity, thin.--_Obs._ These
light horn-coloured shells are common in standing pools, ponds and
ditches, in various parts of Europe. They resemble the Amber shell
(Succinea) in shape, but the animal of the latter is amphibious, and
the shell of a bright amber colour. L. Stagnalis, fig. 308. L.
auricularia, fig. 309. (RADIX, Montf.) The reversed species have been
separated under the name Physa, fig. 310. Other generic names have been
given to other species.
LINES OF GROWTH. The concentric striæ or lines formed by the edges of
the successive layers of shelly matter deposited by the animal by which
it increases the shell. The outer edge of the aperture is always the
last line of growth.
LINGUIFORM. (_Lingua_, tongue; _forma_, form.) Tongue-shaped.
LINGULA. Lam. (Dim. from _lingua_, tongue.) _Fam._ Brachiopoda, Lam.
Palliobranchiata, Bl.--_Descr._ Equivalve, oblong, depressed, thin,
equilateral, gaping and pointed at the umbones, gaping and truncate or
trilobate at the opposite extremities, attached by a fleshy pedicule
fixed to the umbones.--_Obs._ This is the only bivalve shell which is
pedunculated, in which respect it constitutes a singular anomaly. The
ancient writers, seeing the valves separate, placed it in their systems
under the name Patella Unguis. There are several recent species found
in the Moluccas, and some fossils in sandy indurated marl, and in
alluvium of Suffolk. L. Anatina, fig. 219, is so named from its
resemblance to a duck's bill.
LINGULINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
LINTHURIS. Montf. Conch. Syst. 2. 154. A genus of microscopic
Foraminifera.
LIP. See LABIUM and LABRUM.
LIPPISTES. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
LITHODOMUS. Cuv. ([Greek: Lithos], _lithos_, stone; [Greek: Dôma],
_doma_, house.) _Fam._ Mytilacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Transverse, elongated,
cylindrical, equivalve, with the extremities rounded, and the posterior
extremity rostrated; umbones not prominent, terminal; hinge straight,
destitute of teeth; ligament linear, most conspicuous within; muscular
impressions two.--_Obs._ The shells composing this genus differ from
Modiola, not only in the cylindrical form, but also in the circumstance
from which the generic name is derived, i. e. of their living in
stones. Thus, while the form and structure of the shell bring it near
the Mytili or Muscle shells, the habits of the animal cause it to
approach the Lithophagi, or rock-eating molluscs of Lamarck. L.
Dactylus (fig. 161,) is the Mytilus Lithophagus of ancient authors.
LITHOLEPAS. Bl. ([Greek: Lithos], _lithos_, stone, [Greek: lepas],
_lepas_, rock.) De Blainville's name for LITHOTRYA, Sow.
LITHOPHAGIDÆ. Lam. ([Greek: Lithos], _lithos_, stone; [Greek: Phagô],
_phago_, eat or gnaw.) A family of the Conchifera Dimyaria, Lam.
consisting of terebrating bivalves, gaping anteriorly, having no
accessary valves; and containing the genera Saxicava, Petricola,
Venerupis, to which are added other genera enumerated in explanation of
figures 91 to 97. Notwithstanding the numerous genera which have been
created, I think that the most convenient arrangement will be to reduce
them to two, thus--
1. PETRICOLA, with distinct cardinal teeth, including, Clothe,
Venerirupis and Coralliophaga. Fig. 91, 92, 97.
2. SAXICAVA, without teeth, including Biapholius, Hiatella,
Sphænia, Byssomya, and Thracia. Fig. 93 to 96.
LITHOTRYA. G. B. Sowerby. ([Greek: Lithos], _lithos_, stone; [Greek:
truo], _truo_, to bore through.) _Fam._ Pedunculated Cirripedes,
Lam.--_Descr._ Eight unequal valves, forming a laterally compressed
cone, the lower central valves being very minute; pedicle fleshy, scaly
at the upper extremity; fixed at the base in a patelliform shelly
support.--_Obs._ This genus derives its name from the power possessed
by the animal of making dwelling holes in stones or pieces of rock. The
remarkable shelly cups at the base of the pedicle is regarded as
analogous to the shelly base of the Balanus, so that this genus would
form an intermediate link between the Sessile and Pedunculated
Cirripedes of Lamarck. Fig. 39, L. dorsalis. West India Islands.
LITIOPA. Ranz. _Fam._ Turbinacea, Lam.--_Descr._ "Shell not very thick,
horny, with a slight epidermis, rather transparent, conical, with
whorls somewhat rounded; the last being larger than all the rest
together; with the apex pointed, longitudinally grooved; aperture oval,
larger anteriorly than posteriorly, with the lips disunited, the right
lip simple, separated from the left by a rather indistinct notch, or a
slight emargination in the contour. The left lip slightly reflected
backwards, so as to form a kind of salient margin with the anterior
extremity of the columella, which is united, rounded, arcuated and
slightly truncated at the anterior."--_Obs._ The Molluscous animals,
whose shells are thus described, are found in the Mediterranean, and
are remarkable for the power of suspending themselves from the sea-weed
on which they live, by a thread resembling a spider's web. The general
appearance of the shell presents a medium between Phasianella and
Littorina, but it is apparently destitute of an operculum.
LITTORINA. Fer. (_Littus_, the sea-shore.) _Fam._ Turbinacea,
Lam.--_Descr._ Turbinated, thick; spire acuminated, consisting of few
whorls, about one third of the axis in length; aperture entire, large,
rounded anteriorly; outer lip thickened within, acute; columella rather
flattened; operculum horny, spiral, with rapidly increasing
volutions.--_Obs._ The shells composing this genus are known from Turbo
and Phasianella by the horny operculum; and from Trochus, which has
also a horny operculum, by the small number of the whorls. The
Littorinæ, among which may be enumerated the common Periwinkle, are, as
the name implies, found on sea shores, feeding upon seaweed, in all
parts of the world. Fig. 363, _L. Vulgaris_.
LITUACEA. Bl. The second family of Polythalamacea. Bl. The shells are
described as chambered, symmetrical, convolute in part of their extent,
but constantly straight towards the termination. The genus Spirula,
which is admitted into this family, does not properly belong to it, any
more than to the Lituolæ of Lamarck, in which it is also placed. It
does not agree with the descriptions of either. This family partly
corresponds with the "Lituolées," Lam. and contains the genera Lituola,
Ichthyosarcolites, Spirula, Hamites and Ammonoceras.
LITUACEA. Lam. A family of the order Polythalamous Cephalopoda, Lam.
containing the genus Spirula, fig. 471.
LITUITUS. Montf. SPIROLINA, Lam. Microscopic.
LITUOLA. Lam. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
LITUOLÆ. Lam. The third family of Polythalamous Cephalopoda, Lam. the
shells of which are described as partially spiral, the last whorl
continuing in a straight line. The transverse septa which divide the
chambers, are in general pierced by a siphon which breaks itself off
before it reaches the succeeding septum. This family contains the
genera of microscopic Foraminifera Lituola and Spirolina. The genus
Spirula, also placed in this family, does not by any means agree with
Lamarck's definitions "the last whorl continuing in a straight line."
LITUUS. Humph. CYCLOSTOMA? Lam.
LIVID. (From _lividus_.) Of a pale, dull, blue colour. The adjective is
sometimes used as a specific name. _Ex._ Conus _lividus_, Sanguinolaria
_livida_.
LOBARIA. Schum. SANGUINOLARIA rosea, Lam. (fig. 98) and other similar
species.
LOBATE or LOBED. Divided into parts.
LOBATULA. Fleming. A genus composed of two very minute species of
chambered shells. Serpula lobata and S. concamerata, Mont. Test. Brit.
515.
LOMASTOMA. Rafinesque. An imperfectly defined genus, probably belonging
to the Limnacea.
LONGITUDINAL. Lengthwise. Longitudinal striæ, ribs, &c. are those which
radiate from the apex and follow the spiral direction of the whorls, in
spiral shells; and from the umbo to the ventral margin in bivalves. The
term "decourantes" is employed by French conchologists. The bands in
Achatina, fig. 286, are longitudinal or spiral.
LORIPEDES. Poli. A genus composed of species of LUCINA, Auct. in which
the lunules are not prominent.
LOTORIUM. Montf. A genus composed of species of TRITON, Auct. in which
the aperture is effuse. T. Lotorium, fig. 400.
LOTTIA. Gray. PATELLOIDA, Quoy and Gaimard.
LUCERNA. Humph. A generic name applied to some species of Helix
included in De Ferussac's sub-genus Helicogena.
LUCERNELLA. Sw. A genus of "Lucerninæ," Sw. thus described: "Teeth on
both sides of the aperture; surface regularly and distinctly striated.
Circumference convex."
LUCIDULA. Sw. A sub-genus of Lucerna, Humph. thus described: "Aperture
transverse, both lips much thickened and united; the outer with
marginal obsolete teeth at the base; umbilicus closed. Barbadensis,
_Lam._ No. 49. p. 78. Fêr. Moll. pl. 47, 2, 3, 4."
LUCINA. Brug. _Fam._ Nymphacea, Lam. Conchacea, Bl.--_Descr._
Equivalve, inequilateral, orbicular, lenticular, radiately striated;
hinge with, generally, two minute cardinal teeth, which are sometimes
nearly obsolete, and two lateral teeth, on each side of the umbo in one
valve, one in the other; ligament external, partly hidden by the
margins of the valves when closed. Muscular impressions two in each
valve, the anterior one produced into an elongated, ligulate band, the
posterior short and semi-rotund; impression of the mantle not
sinuated.--_Obs._ The shells of this genus resemble Amphidesma in
general form, but are distinguished by the external ligament, the
elongated muscular impression, and the want of a sinus in the palleal
impression. East and West Indies, and European shores. Fig. 104, L.
Tigerina.
LUNULATE. (_Luna_, the moon, dim.) Moon-shaped, having the form of a
crescent. Applied most frequently to muscular impressions. Semilunar is
sometimes used, perhaps with greater accuracy, to express the same
shape.
LUNULE. An impression on the anterior dorsal margin of some bivalve
shells. The similar impression on the posterior dorsal margin is called
the _escutcheon_.
LUPONIA. Gray. A genus composed of species of CYPRÆA, Auct. which are
described as having the anterior of the columellar lip crossed by
several irregular ridges, without any distinct marginal ones,
internally narrow, flat; the shell pear-shaped, smooth, or
cross-ribbed. _Ex._ C. Algoensis, Luponia Algoensis, Gray, fig. 447.
LUTRARIA. Auct. (_Lutum?_ mud.)--_Fam._ Mactracea, Lam.--_Descr._ Thin,
equivalve, inequilateral, transverse, oblong or ovate, gaping at both
extremities; hinge with one double and sometimes one single cardinal
tooth in each valve, and a triangular, oblique pit with a prominent
margin, containing the ligament; muscular impressions distant; palleal
impression having a large sinus.--_Obs._ This genus differs from Mactra
in the entire absence or indistinctness of lateral teeth. Fig. 77, L.
Papyracea. (Ligula, Leach.) Fig. 78. L. Solenoides. Sandy and muddy
shores.
LUTRICOLA. Bl. LUTRARIA. Lam. Fig. 77, 78.
LYCOPHRIS. Montf. A microscopic fossil described as resembling
NUMMULITES, but having a granulated surface.
LYMNADEA. Sw. A sub-genus of "Mysca," Turton, in the family of Nayades,
Lam. thus described: "Posterior hinge margin elevated and winged; the
valves connate; the surface smooth. L. alata. _Sw._ _Ex._ Conch. (fig.
48.) fragilis. _Sw._ Zool. Ill. compressa, _Lea._ Am. Tr. iii. pl. 12.
f. 22." Sw. p. 379.
LYMNEA. See LIMNEA.
LYMNEUS. Lam. See LIMNEANA.
LYONSIA. Turt. Inequivalve species of ANATINA, Auct. which have no
spoon-shaped cavity in the hinge, but an accessary piece. L. striata,
fig. 491, 2.
LYRODON. Goldf. TRIGONIA?
MACLURITES. Lesuour. Journ. des Scienc. Nat. Philad. t. 1. p. 312. pl.
13. fig. 2, 3.
MACOMA. Leach. VENUS tenuis, Bl. and similar species, described as
"Clothed with an epidermis; striated, compressed, oval; the summits not
very prominent; two bifid teeth upon the right valve and a single
undivided one upon the left."
MACRODITUS. Montf. LENTICULINA, Bl. A genus of microscopic
Foraminifera.
MACROSPIRA. Guild. A genus composed of HELIX octona, Auct. Macrospira
aperta, Guild.
MACROSTOMATA. Lam. ([Greek: Makros], _macros_, long; [Greek: stoma],
_stoma_, mouth.) A family belonging to the first section of the order
Trachelipoda, the shells belonging to which are described as haliotoid
or ear shaped, with a very large aperture, destitute of an operculum.
This family contains the following genera, which maybe thus
distinguished.
1. VELUTINA. Globose, with velvety epidermis. Fig. 337.
2. STOMATIA. Ear-shaped; pearly within; including STOMATELLA. Fig.
335, 336.
3. SIGARETUS. The same, not pearly; including _Cryptostoma_. Fig.
334.
4. CORIOCELLA. The same, thin, transparent.
5. HALIOTIS. The same, not thin, nor transparent; with holes;
including _Padollus_. Fig. 338, 339.
6. SCISSURELLA. Heliciform, with a slit near the aperture. Fig.
340.
7. PLEUROTOMARIA. Trochiform, with a slit at the edge of the
aperture. Fig. 341.
MACTRA. Auct. (_Mactra_, a kneading trough.) _Fam._ Mactracea, Lam.
Conchacea, Bl.--_Descr._ Usually thin, equivalve, sub-equilateral,
sub-trigonal, slightly gaping at the extremities; hinge with one
cardinal tooth, divided into two parts, diverging from the umbo, with
sometimes a very small laminar tooth close to its side; a deep
triangular pit near the centre, containing the cartilage; one long,
lateral tooth on each side of the umbo in one valve, received between
two in the other; muscular impressions two, lateral; palleal impression
with a small sinus.--_Obs._ This genus contains many species of
beautiful shells found in various parts of the world, some are common
in Britain. Fossil species are not numerous, they occur in the tertiary
strata. Fig. 79 to 82.
MACTRACEA. Lam. A family of the order Conchifera Dimyaria, Lam. Sect.
Tenuipedes. The cartilage placed in a trigonal pit with a small
external ligament. The genera may be thus distinguished.
1. LUTRARIA. No lateral teeth, shell gaping. The short species
constitute the genus _Ligula_. Fig. 77, 78.
2. MACTRA. Lateral teeth, shell closed. This genus has been divided
into Mactra, Mulinia, Schizodesma and Spisula, by Mr. Gray. Fig. 79
to 82.
3. GNATHODON. Teeth serrated, thick, one angular. Fig. 83.
4. CRASSATELLA. Shell thick, lateral teeth. Fig. 84.
5. AMPHIDESMA. A distinct external ligament, internal ligament
oblique. Fig. 85.
6. ERYCINA. A short tooth on each side of the cartilaginous pit in
each valve. Including Mesodesma. Fig. 86.
7. UNGULINA. Ligament flat, divided. Fig. 88.
MACULATED. (From _Macula_, a spot.) Spotted or patched. This term is
applied by conchological writers, to those shells which are coloured in
spots or small patches. In the same sense it is also used as a specific
name. As for instance, Cytherea maculata, fig. 167, c. and Hippopus
maculatus, fig. 156.
MAGAS. Sow. ([Greek: Magas], _magas_, a board, a deck.) _Fam._
Brachiopoda, Lam.--_Descr._ Equilateral, inequivalve; one valve convex,
with a triangular area, divided by an angular sinus in the centre; the
other valve flat, with a straight hinge line and two small projections;
a partial longitudinal septum, with appendages attached to the hinge
within. Differing from Terebratula in having a triangular disc, and not
a circular perforation. Magas pumilus, fig. 299. Fossil in chalk.
MAGILUS. Montf. _Fam._ Cricostomata, Bl. Serpulacea, Lam.--_Descr._
Thick, tubular, irregular, contorted; rounded above, keeled beneath,
free; apicial extremity convolute, heliciform, ovate or sub-globose;
aperture elliptical.--_Obs._ This shell when in a young state presents
the characteristics of a regularly formed spiral univalve, living in
holes in madrepores. As the madrepore increases in bulk, the animal
gives an eccentric course to the shell, in order to have its aperture
even with the surface, and leaving the nucleus or young shell behind,
fills it up with calcareous matter to reside in the open extremity of
the tube. Fig. 9, 10. Red Sea and Mauritius.
MALACOTA. Schum. OTION. Leach.
MALACOZOA. Bl. ([Greek: Malakos], _malacos_, soft; [Greek: Zôon],
_zoon_, animal.) The type or general appellative in De Blainville's
system, including all molluscous animals, excepting those with
multivalve shells.
MALDANIA. Lam. The second family of the order Annelides Sedentaria. The
only genus of shells described in this family is Dentalium, fig. 2, to
which may be added Pharetrium, König. fig. 3. It is doubtful however
whether the latter do not belong to an unknown genus of Pteropodous
Mollusca.
MALEA. Valenciennes. A genus composed of DOLIUM latilabrum, Kiener, and
other similar species.
MALENTOZOA. Bl. ([Greek: Malakos], _malacos_, soft; [Greek: en], _in_,
[Greek: temnô], _temno_, cut; [Greek: Zôon], _zoon_, animal.) Or
articulated mollusca. The sub-type in De Blainville's system,
comprehending those with multivalve shells.
MALLEACEA. Lam. A family belonging to the order of Conchifera
Monomyaria. Containing the following genera of irregular pearly
bivalves.
1. AVICULA. Hinge linear, simple, including _Meleagrina_. Fig. 163,
164.
2. PERNA. Hinge with linear grooves, including _Pulvinites_. Fig.
166, 170.
3. GERVILLIA. Shaped like Modiola, with irregular grooves. Fig.
162.
4. CRENATULA. Hinge with a series of pits. Fig. 168.
5. CATILLUS. Like Perna, but more regular and convex. Fig. 167.
6. MALLEUS. A triangular disc on the hinge, and two auricles. Fig.
165.
MALLEUS. Auct. (_Malleus_, a hammer.) _Fam._ Malleacea, Lam.
Margaritacea, Bl.--_Descr._ Equivalve, inequilateral, foliaceous,
trilobate, undulated, irregular, attached by a byssus passing through a
sinus in one valve; hinge rectilinear, lengthened by two auricles; with
a small disc under the umbones, containing the ligament, and a groove
containing the cartilage; muscular impressions one in each valve,
large, uniform, and one or two others extremely minute.--_Obs._ Malleus
Vulgaris, the type of this genus, is a most singular shell, commonly
called the "Hammer Oyster," from the peculiarity of its shape. It
belongs to the Linnæan genus Ostrea, from which it differs in being
attached by a byssus. Fig. 165, M. Vulgaris. Tropical.
MAMILLARIA. Sw. A sub-genus of NATICA, corresponding with Polinices of
Montfort, having the spire small and the umbilicus filled. _Ex._ Natica
Mamilla, Auct. fig. 327.
MAMMILLATED. (_Mammula_, a little teat.) A term applied to the apex of
a shell when it is rounded like a teat. _Ex._ Voluta Vespertilio, fig.
433.
MARGARITA. Leach. (_Margarita_, a pearl.) A genus of small shells
resembling the genus Trochus, from which it differs in having an
operculum consisting of few whorls. M. tæniata, fig. 362. Mr. G. B.
Sowerby, sen. has enumerated 15 species in a list accompanying the
figures published by the author of this manual in Nos. 132 to 134 of
his Conchological Illustrations.
MARGARITACEA. Bl. The third family of Lamellibranchiata, Bl. The shells
belonging to it are described as irregular, inequivalve, inequilateral,
black or horny without, pearly within; hinge auriculated, scarcely
developed, and without teeth. The ligament is variable and there is a
large sub-central muscular impression. This family contains the genera
Vulsella, Malleus, Pinna, Crenatula, Inoceramus, Catillus, Pulvinites,
Gervillia and Avicula.
MARGARITACEOUS. (_Margarita_, a pearl.) Pearly.
MARGARITANA. Schum. A sub-genus of Uniones, composed of species having
"one cardinal tooth." ALASMODON, Say. MYA Margaritifera, Linn.
MARGARITIFEROUS. (_Margarita_, pearl; _fero_, to bear.) Pearl-bearing.
Applied to shells which form pearls; as Meleagrina Margaritifera, or
Pearl-bearing Oyster.
MARGINAL. Near the margin or edge.
MARGINATED. (_Margo_, edge.) Having an edge or border thicker than the
rest of the shell, from which circumstance the little genus Marginella
derives its name.
MARGINELLA. (A little rim or border.) _Fam._ Columellaria, Lam.
Angyostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Ovate, smooth, shining, with a short,
sometimes hidden spire; aperture narrow, emarginated; columella with
several oblique folds; outer lip neatly reflected.--_Obs._ This genus
of pretty little shells differs from Voluta, in the reflection of the
outer lip. The animal covers the greater part of the shell with the
mantle, and by continually depositing vitreous matter gives it a bright
polish, which, together with the delicately neat arrangement of colours
in most species, renders them exceedingly beautiful. The Marginellæ are
marine and tropical. A few fossil species are found in the
Calc-grossier. Fig. 437. M. Glabella. GLABELLA, Sw.
MARGINULINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
MARINE CONCHACEA. See CONCHACEA.
MARINE TESTACEA. Those shell-fish which inhabit seas, lakes, &c. of
salt water, in distinction from the _Aquatic_ Testacea, or those which
are found in rivers, ponds or stagnant pools of fresh water: and also
from the _Land_ Testacea, which live on land and breathe air. The great
proportion of shells belong to the former class, those of the latter
two classes being limited in their number, and in the genera to which
they belong.
MARINULA. King. A genus of small shells resembling Auricula and
Pedipes, described as "Ovate, sub-solid, with aperture ovate entire;
columella bidentate, uniplicated towards the base, with large
sub-remote teeth; the largest uppermost; no operculum."
MARMAROSTOMA. Sw. A genus of "Trochidæ," Sw. thus described: "Umbilicus
deep; spire of few whorls, much depressed, and obtuse; inner lip
obsolete; base even more produced than in _Senectus_, but never
distinctly channeled. M. versicolor. Mont. 176. f. 1740, 1741,
undulata. Chem. 169. f. 1640, 1641," Sw. p. 348.
MARPESSA. Gray. A sub-genus of Clausilia, C. bidens, &c. Auct. Gray's
Turton, p. 212.
MARTESIA. Leach. A genus composed of those species of PHOLAS, Auct.
which are described as short, cuneiform, nearly closed at both
extremities, having several accessary pieces on the middle of the back,
and two marginal, lower down.
MEASUREMENT. The most approved method of stating the measurements of
various kinds of shells is as follows: _symmetrical convolute
univalves_, the length is from anterior to posterior; the depth from
ventral to dorsal; the breadth, from side to side of the aperture. Of
_symmetrical conical univalves_, length, from front to back; breadth
from side to side; depth from apex to base. Of _spiral univalves_,
length, from apex to anterior of the columella or axis of the shell;
breadth, across from the outer lip to the opposite side. Of
_non-symmetrical bivalves_, the length is from the anterior to the
posterior margin; breadth, from the greatest convexity of one valve to
the corresponding part of the other; depth, from the ventral to the
dorsal margin.
MEGADESMA. Bowd. ([Greek: Megas], _megas_, great; [Greek: desma],
_desma_, ligament.) POTAMOPHILA, Sow. GALATHÆA, Lam.
MEGADOMUS. Sw. A sub-genus of Unio, thus described: "Only one lateral
tooth in each valve; cardinal teeth two; posterior hinge margin winged.
M. gigas, _Sw._" Sw. p. 378.
MEGALODON. Sow. ([Greek: Megas], _megas_, great; [Greek: odos], _odos_,
tooth.) _Fam._ Cardiacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Equivalve, longitudinal,
acuminated at the umbones, thick; hinge forming an incrassated septum
across the cavity of the shell, with a large bifid tooth in the right
valve, and one irregular and one pointed in the left; ligament long,
external.--_Obs._ The general form, the thickened hinge reaching across
the cavity of the valve and the terminal umbones serve to distinguish
this genus from Cardita, to which, however, it is nearly allied. M.
cucullatus, fig. 127.
MEGALOMASTOMA. Guild. A sub-genus of Cyclostoma, thus described:
"Cylindrical, resembling _Pupa_, but has a horny operculum; spire not
thickened; teeth or fold on the pillar none, flavula _Sw._ En. Méth.
461. f. 6, brunnea _Guild._ (_fig. 97. g. h. 1._)" Sw. p. 336. Mr. Gray
applies the name to those species which have "a groove or ridge in
front of the mouth near the pillar."
MEGARIMA. Rafinesque. A genus proposed to include species of
TEREBRATULA, Auct. which are smooth and nearly equivalve. T. lævis, T.
crassa, T. truncula.
MEGASPIRA. Lea. ([Greek: Megas], _megas_, great, and spire.) M.
Ruschenbergiana, (fig. 294) is a pupiform land shell remarkable for the
length of its spire, which consists of no less than twenty-five close
set, narrow, gradually increasing whorls. The outer lip is simple,
slightly thickened; the inner lip has a tooth on the body-whorl, and
two folds on the columella. Only one species of this singular shell is
known.
MEGATREMA. Leach. A genus composed of those species of Pyrgoma, Auct.
which have a large aperture. Fig. 33.
MELACANTHA. Sw. A sub-genus of Melania. Sw. p. 341.
MELAFUSUS. Sw. A sub-genus of Melanopsis. Sw. p. 341.
MELAMPUS. Montf. CONOVULUM, Lam. A genus composed of species of
AURICULA, Auct. of a conical form. A. conoidalis, fig. 298.
MELANIA. Auct. ([Greek: Melas], _melas_, black.) _Fam._ Melaniens, Lam.
Ellipsostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Turrited; spire generally elongated,
acute; aperture entire, oval or oblong, pointed at the posterior
extremity, rounded anteriorly, with a kind of indistinct canal or
sinuosity: epidermis thick, generally black.--_Obs._ In common with
other fresh-water shells, the Melaniæ are frequently found with
corroded apices. This genus is known from Melanopsis by the absence of
the notch at the anterior part of the aperture. The Melaniæ occur in
rivers of warm climates. The fossil species are frequent in upper
marine formations. Fig. 313, M. subulata.
MELANIANA. Lam. (Melaniens.) A family belonging to the first section of
the order Trachelipoda. The genera contained in it maybe distinguished
as follows.
1. MELANOPSIS. Aperture notched; columellar lip thickened above;
including _Pirena_. Fig. 315, 316.
2. MELANIA. Aperture not notched; columellar lip not thickened;
including _Auculosa_, _Pasithæa_, _Io_. Fig. 313, 314, 317.
MELANITHES. Sw. A sub-genus of Melanopsis. Sw. p. 341.
MELANOIDES. Olivier. MELANOPSIS. Fer.
MELANOPSIS. Fer. _Fam._ Melaniana, Lam. Entomostomata, Bl.--_Descr._
Oval or oblong, fusiform; spire acute, sometimes elongated; aperture
oblong or oval, pyriform, with a distinct notch at the anterior
extremity; columella tortuous, callous, thickened at the extremity near
the spire; epidermis thick, horny, generally black.
Subtropical.--_Obs._ This description includes the two first species of
the genus Pirena, Lam. The Melanopsides are known from the Melaniæ by
the notch in the aperture. Fig. 315. M. costata.
MELAS. Montf. MELANIA, Auct.
MELATOMA. Sw. A sub-genus of Melanopsis. Sw. p. 341.
MELEAGRINA. Lam. MARGARITA. A genus composed of the Pearl Oyster and
similar species, separated from Avicula on account of the roundness of
their general form, but re-united by Sowerby. For generic characters,
see Avicula. Fig. 164. M. margaritifera.
MELEAGRIS. Montf. TURBO Pica, Auct. and similar species, having the
aperture oblique, the columella gliding imperceptibly into the outer
lip, and having an umbilicus.
MELINA. Schum. PERNA, Auct.
MELO. Brod. (_Melo_, a melon.) _Fam._ Columellaria, Lam.--_Descr._
Light, ventricose, oval, with a light greenish brown epidermis, spire
short, papillary, regular, sometimes hidden by the last whorl; aperture
large, nearly as long as the whole shell, emarginated anteriorly; outer
lip thin; columella slightly curved, with four or five laminar,
oblique, prominent plaits.--_Obs._ The genus Melo has been separated
from _Voluta_ principally on account of the largeness of the aperture,
the lightness of the shell and the thinness of the outer lip. Melo
differs from Cymba in the regularity of the spiral apex, and in the
greater rotundity of the shell. The Melons are beautifully coloured
large shells, found in the seas of the old world. The Melo Indicus has
a certain resemblance to a Melon. Fig. 435. M. Æthiopicus.
MELONIA or MELONITES. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
MERCENARIA. Schum. VENUS Mercenaria, Auct. The Money shell which passes
current for cash, under the name "Wampum," among the North American
Indians.
MERETRIX. Lam. Original name for Cytherea, Lam.
MEROE. Schum. CYTHEREA Meroe, sulcata, scripta, hians, Auct. and
similar species. Fig. 117, a.
MESODESMA. Desh. ERYCINA, Lam. according to G. B. Sowerby.
MESOMPHYX. Rafinesque. A genus proposed to be separated from HELIX,
Auct.
MICROTOMA. Sw. A genus of "Purpurinæ," Sw. thus described, "Pillar very
broad and curving inwards; aperture effuse; the notch at the base small
and nearly obsolete; spire very short, patula. Mart. 69. f. 758, 759.
persica. En. Méth. 397. f. 1. unicolor. _Sw._ Chem. f. 1449. Sw. p.
301." Purpura Persica. Fig. 414.
MILIOLA. Lam. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
MISILUS. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
MITRA. Lam. (_Mitre._) _Fam._ Columellaria, Lam. Angyostomata;
Bl.--_Descr._ Oblong, thick, covered with a light brown epidermis;
spire long, turrited, acute; aperture emarginated anteriorly; outer lip
thickened; columella with several oblique, thick plaits.--_Obs._ The
pretty small shells composing this genus differ from Marginella, not
only in general form, but in the outer lip not being reflected. Some
species of Voluta, of a more elongated shape than the rest, present a
near approach to the most ventricose of the Mitræ. The apex of Mitra,
however, is always acute, while that of Voluta is generally papillary.
The aperture of the former is narrow and the inner lip thickened, the
contrary being the case with the latter. The shells of this genus are
varied in colouring which is generally rich; and also in form, some
being angulated, some plicated, some coronated and others smooth. The
species are mostly tropical; very few occur so far north as the
Mediterranean. Fossil species are numerous in the Eocene beds. Fig.
431. M. Plicaria. Fig. 432. Conohelix marmorata, Sw.
MITRELLA. Sw. A genus consisting of MITRA Fissurella, casta,
Olivæformis, and similar species, described as "Rather small;
olive-shaped; unequally fusiform; always smooth and polished, and
sometimes covered with an epidermis; base obtuse and effuse; spire
nearly or quite equal to the aperture; plaits of the pillar few,
oblique, and extending beyond the aperture, which is smooth
internally." Sw. p. 321. M. Fissurata, E. M. 371. f. 1. Olivarii, f. 2.
Dactylus. 372. f. 5. _Ex._ Mitra bicolor.
MITREOLA. Sw. A genus of "Mitranæ," Sw. thus described: "Small;
unequally fusiform; the base obtuse; inner lip, typically thickened,
inflected, and either toothed or tuberculated; plaits on the pillar
distinct, the inferior largest; tip of the spire sometimes papillary;
aperture without either striæ or groove." Sw. p. 320, M. Monodonta, M.
Terebellum. Zool. Illustr. II. 128. f. 1. f. 2.
MODIOLA. Lam. (_Modiola_, a little measure.) _Fam._ Mytilacea,
Lam.--_Descr._ Equivalve oblique, cuneiform, inequilateral, thin, with
the anterior side short and narrow, slightly gaping to admit the
passage of a byssus, and the posterior side elongated, broad,
sub-quadrate; hinge thin, toothless, rectilinear, with a long, partly
external ligament; muscular impressions two in each valve; palleal
impression irregular, not sinuated.--_Obs._ This genus differs from
Mytilus, to which the common muscle belongs, in the anterior margin
being rounded out beyond the umbo, which in Mytilus is terminal. The
Lithodomi may be known from this genus by their cylindrical form. Fig.
160, M. Tulipa.
MOLLUSCA. (From _Mollis_, soft.) The twelfth class of invertebrated
animals with univalve shells or none; divided into the following
orders: Pteropoda, Gasteropoda, Trachelipoda, Cephalopoda, Heteropoda,
fig. 220 to 488. The term mollusca is also used in a general sense to
include the classes Conchifera and Mollusca of Lamarck, corresponding
with the type Malacozoa of De Blainville.
MONEY COWRY. Cypræa Moneta, which passes current in some parts of
Africa and the East Indies.
MONILEA. Sw. A sub-genus of Monodonta. Sw. p. 352.
MONOCEROS. ([Greek: Monos], _monos_, single; [Greek: Keras], _ceras_,
horn.) _Fam._ Purpurifera, Lam.--_Descr._ Ovate, thick, covered with a
brown epidermis; spire short, consisting of few whorls; aperture
emarginated anteriorly; columella rather flat; outer lip thick, with a
prominent tooth near the extremity.--_Obs._ This genus resembles
Purpura, in every respect, except in having the tooth from which the
name is derived. A catalogue of 16 species by Mr. Sowerby, sen. is
published with figures of 14, in parts 58 to 67 of the Conchological
Illustrations by the author. The species belong to the South American
coasts of the Pacific Ocean.
MONOCONDYLÆA. D'Orb. A sub-genus of Uniones, described as equivalve,
inequilateral, sub-rotund or angulated; hinge consisting of a large,
obtuse, round cardinal tooth in each valve, with no lateral teeth.
Monocondylæ (Unio) Paraguayana, D'Orb. fig. 149.
MONODONTA. Lam. ODONTIS, Sow. A genus separated from Trochus, Auct. on
account of the tooth or notch with which the columella abruptly
terminates. M. labeo, fig. 366.
MONOICA. Bl. The second sub-class of the class Paracephalophora, Bl.
divided into the orders Pulmobranchiata, Chismobranchiata,
Monopleurobranchiata, in the first section; and Aporobranchiata,
Polybranchiata, Cyclobranchiata, Inferobranchiata, and
Nucleobranchiata, in the second.
MONOMYARIA. Lam. ([Greek: Monos], _monos_, single; [Greek: muon],
_myon_, muscle.) The second order of Conchifera, consisting of those
bivalve shells which have but _one_ principal muscular impression in
each valve. The Monomyaria are thus divided: First section, containing
the families Tridacnacea, Mytilacea, Malleacea; second section,
containing the families Pectinides, Ostracea; third section, containing
the families Rudistes, Brachiopoda.
MONOPLEUROBRANCHIATA. Bl. The second order of the first section of
Paracephalophora Monoica. Bl. The animals are described as having the
lungs branched, situated at the right side of the body and covered more
or less completely by the operculiform mantle, in which there is
sometimes enveloped either a flat or a more or less involute shell,
with a large entire aperture. They have either rudimentary or auricular
tentacula, or none. This order, which includes mollusca with haliotoid
or patelliform shells, is divided into the following families: _Fam._
1. Subaplysiacea; 2. Aplysiacea; 3. Patelloidea; 4. Acera.
MONOPTYGMA. Lea. A genus of small shells resembling Tornatella, but
having a strong, oblique fold in the centre of the columellar lip. M.
Elegans, fig. 344.
MONOTHALAMIA. ([Greek: Monos], _monos_, single; [Greek: thalamos],
_thalamos_, chamber.) The second division of Cephalopoda, Lam.
containing only one genus, namely Argonauta.
MONOTHYRA. A term used by Aristotle to designate spiral univalves.
MONOTIGMA. Gray. A genus founded on the species represented fig. 371.
It is a turrited shell, but we are unacquainted with the characters of
the genus.
MORIO. Montf. CASSIDARIA, Auct. C. Echinophora, fig. 407.
MOTHER OF PEARL. This beautiful substance, which is so much resorted to
for ornamental purposes, constitutes the thickened coating of the
internal surface of the shell named by scientific collectors,
Meleagrina Margaritifera, commonly called the Pearl Oyster, a young
specimen of which is figured (164) in our plates. The reason why this
substance is called mother-of-pearl is that the true pearls are
produced from its surface. They arise principally from accident or
disease, and are sometimes artificially produced by pricking through
the outside of the shell while the animal is living. The animal is
allowed to live until it has formed a pearl over the wounded part.
MOULINSIA. Grateloup. PUPINA, Vignard. A genus of small land shells
with enamelled surface and spiral operculum. See PUPINA.
MOURETIA. Gray. "_Gadin_," Adanson. A genus of patelliform shells,
described as differing from SIPHONARIA (the original Mouretia of
Adanson) in the situation of the siphon, which in Mouretia is close to
the place where the muscular impression is interrupted to leave a space
for the head; while in Siphonaria it is nearly half way between the
anterior and posterior ends of the shell.
MOUTH. The aperture or opening of univalve shells.
MULINIA. Gray. A genus composed of species of MACTRA, Auct. described
as having the ligament (properly so called) internal, and lateral teeth
simple. _Ex._ fig. 82. M. bicolor; Mactra, Auct.
MULLERIA. Fer. _Fam._ Ostracea, Lam.--_Descr._ Irregular, subquadrate,
inequivalve, inequilateral, foliaceous, attached, pearly within, green,
horny without; hinge irregular, with a partly external ligament,
passing to the interior, through a sort of sinus.--_Obs._ This
remarkable shell resembles Etheria in general form and appearance, but
is distinguished by having only one muscular impression. It is so rare
that, although not very beautiful, a specimen has been known to produce
£20. at a sale. Fig. 192.
MULTILOCULAR. Many chambered.
MULTISPIRAL. (_Multus_, many, _spira_, spire.) A term applied to a
shell when the spire consists of numerous whorls; or to an operculum of
numerous volutions.
MULTIVALVE. (_Multus_, many; _valva_, valve.) Consisting of numerous
valves. There are three kinds of multivalve shells: 1st. Those in which
the valves are arranged in pairs, and produce a flattened figure, as
Pedunculated Cirripedes, fig. 34 to 43; 2nd. Those in which they are
arranged circularly, as Sessile Cirripedes, the valves of which are of
two kinds; the _opercular_, consisting of several valves, which close
the aperture, and the _parietal_, consisting of those which surround
the body of the animal in a circular form, fig. 14 to 33. 3rd. Those in
which they are arranged in a straight line, as Chiton, fig. 227.
MUREX. Auct. (_A sharp rock._) _Fam._ Canalifera, Lam. siphonostoma,
Bl.--_Descr._ Turrited, ventricose, thick, with three or more
longitudinal, continuous, branched, spinose or fringed varices; spire
prominent, acute; aperture oval, terminating in a posterior, partly
closed canal, outer lip varicose, inner lip smooth, laminar; operculum
horny, concentric, pointed.--_Obs._ This genus contains some of the
most exquisitely beautiful shells in existence, the richness of their
colouring, the ramifications of their varices, would render most
species the finest possible subject for the exercise of the painter's
art in still life. The most remarkable are the Rosebud Murex, with its
pink-tipt fringes, the Venus Comb, with its long rows of parallel
spines; the Ducal Murex, the Royal Murex, and many others, which are
much sought after by collectors. Murex may be distinguished from Triton
by the continuity of the varices, which follow each other in a tortuous
direction on the spire. The Ranellæ have only two rows of varices, and
have a posterior as well as anterior canal; while Murices have three or
more varices, and only one canal. The genus Typhis consists of several
small species resembling Murex in every respect, excepting that of
having a tubular opening on the upper part of the whorl between each
varix. See TYPHIS. The most beautiful Murices are brought from tropical
climates. Fig. 395, 396.
MURICANTHUS. Sw. A sub-genus of Murex, thus described: "Varices
numerous, foliated; spire short; margin of the outer lip with a
prominent tooth near the base; Radix. _Sw._ Zool. Ill. 2nd series. pl.
113, Melanomathus. En. Méth. 418. f. 2." Sw. p. 296. The latter of the
two species quoted, however, does not agree with the description,
having no prominent tooth on the margin of the outer lip.
MURICATED. (_Muricatus._) Having sharp points or prickles.
MURICIDEA. Sw. A genus of "Muricinæ," Sw. thus described, "Spire more
produced, as long or longer than the body whorl; varices numerous; no
internal channel at the top of the aperture." Sw. p. 297, and
consisting of the following incongruous species, "Lamellosa. Chem. f.
1823, 4. magellanica. En. M. 419. f. 4. peruviana. Ib. f. 5. senticosa,
Ib. f. 3. scaber. En. Méth. 419. f. 6. hexagona. Ib. 418. f. 3.
erinacea. Mart. f. 1026." Sw. p. 297.
MUSCULAR IMPRESSIONS are the marks or areas formed on the interior
surface of shells by the muscular fibres which attach the animals to
them. Lamarck has divided his Conchifera into two kinds: 1st.
Monomyaria, those which have but one adductor muscle, and consequently
have but one impression in each valve, as the common Oyster, fig. 180;
2nd. The Dimyaria, those which have two, and consequently have two
impressions in each valve. There are other smaller impressions in some
shells besides the principal. The palleal impression is a mark or scar
passing near the margin of the shell. See Introduction.
MYA. Auct. _Fam._ Myaria, Lam. Pyloridea, Bl.--_Descr._ Transverse,
oval, thick, gaping at both extremities, rounded anteriorly, acuminated
posteriorly; hinge with one large, dilate, compressed tooth in one
valve, and a suture in the other, containing the cartilage; muscular
impressions two, distant, large, irregular; palleal impression with a
large sinus.--_Obs._ Mya may be known by the large, prominent, broad
tooth in one valve. In Anatina there is one in each valve, and, in
Lyonsia, accessory pieces. Lutraria has cardinal teeth and a
ligamentary pit. Few species of Mya are known. They belong to the
Northern Hemisphere. M. truncata, fig. 71.
MYCETOPODA or MYCETOPUS. D'Orb. _Fam._ Nayades, Lam.--_Descr._ Shell
elongated, soleniform, inequivalve, inequilateral, gaping anteriorly;
muscular impressions very complex.--_Obs._ These shells are said to
terebrate like Pholas. Fig. 151. M. solenoides.
MYARIA. Lam. A family belonging to Lamarck's order Conchifera Dimyaria.
Containing the following genera:
1. ANATINA. Ligament in a spoon-shaped prominence on the hinge of
each valve, shell thin. Fig. 69.
2. MYA. Spoon-shaped prominence in one valve; shell thick. Fig. 71.
3. ANATINELLA. A spoon-shaped process in both valves. Fig. 70.
4. LYONSIA. An internal bony appendage on the hinge. Fig. 491, 492.
5. MYOCHAMA. Flat valve attached, a bony appendage on the hinge.
Fig. 73.
6. CLEIDOTHÆRUS. Deep valve attached, a bony appendage. Fig. 75,
76.
7. CUMINGIA. Ligamentary pit in both valves, spoon-shaped. Fig. 87.
MYOCHAMA. Stutch. (_Mya_ and _Chama_.) _Fam._ Myaria, Lam.--_Descr._
Inequivalve, irregular, attached, subequilateral; attached valve flat,
with two marginal, diverging teeth, and one end of a little testaceous
appendage fixed between them by a horny cartilage; free valve convex,
with umbo incurved and two very minute, diverging teeth, between which
the other end of the testaceous appendage is placed; external surface
of both valves conforming to the grooves or undulations of the shell to
which the specimen is attached; muscular impressions two in each valve;
palleal impressions with a short sinus.--_Obs._ This new genus, of
which only one species is known, the M. anomioides from New South
Wales, differs from Anomia and Anatina in being attached by the surface
of one of the valves, from which circumstance the word Chama is added
to its name; the little testaceous appendage bringing it near the
Myariæ. Fig. 73, M. anomioides.
MYOCONCHA. Sow. (_Mya_ and _Concha_.) _Fam._ Cardiacea, Lam.--_Descr._
Oval, equivalve, oblique; umbones terminal; ventral margin rounded;
hinge with an external ligament, and one oblique, elongated tooth in
the left valve; impression of the mantle not sinuated.--_Obs._ The
fossil genus has the general form of Mytilus or Modiola, but the hinge
of the Conchæ generally.
MYOPARA. Lea. (_Myoparo_, a piratical oar-galley.) _Fam._ Arcacea, Lam.
A genus founded on a minute fossil bivalve shell, somewhat resembling
Isocardia in form, but having a series of teeth placed on each side of
the umbones. M. costatus, fig. 135.
MYRISTICA. Sw. A genus of "Pyrulinæ," Sw. thus described:
"Sub-pyriform; spire strong, spiny, or tuberculated, nearly as long as
the base; umbilicus either partially or entirely concealed; inner lip
vitreous, thin; the outer with an internal and ascending canal; the
basal channel wide. Hippocastanea. En. M. 432. f. 4. lineata, Ib. f. 5.
melongena. En. Méth. 435. f. 3. nodosa. Chem. 1564. 5." Sw. p. 307.
_Ex._ P. Melongena, Fig.
MYRTEA. Turt. VENUS spinifera, Auct. LUCINA spinifera, Nonnull. The
shells of this genus are described as "Oval, triangular, equivalve,
nearly equilateral, closed. Hinge of one valve with a single tooth, and
lateral one on each side; of the other valve with two teeth, the
lateral ones obscure. Ligament external." British Channel and
Mediterranean.
MYSCA. Turt. A genus composed of species of UNIO, Auct. which are
distinguished by having "strong, transverse, notched, cardinal and long
lateral teeth." Unio pictorum.
MYSIA. Leach. A genus composed of TELLINA rotundata, montagu and other
similar species.
MYTILACEA. Bl. The fourth family of Lamellibranchiata, Bl. The shells
are described as regular, equivalve, frequently with a thick, horny
epidermis. A toothless hinge and a linear ligament. This family
contains the genera Mytilus and Pinna.
MYTILACEA. Lam. A family belonging to the first section of Conchifera
Monomyaria, Lam. described as having the ligament partly interior,
occupying the greater part of the hinge line, which is straight. The
shell is rarely foliaceous. The Mytilaceæ cannot easily be confounded
with the Malleaceæ, because the former are generally regular and the
latter are irregular, and have a thick internal coating of pearl,
beyond which the external coating extends. The genera may be thus
distinguished:
1. MYTILUS. Umbones terminating in a point. Fig. 158.
2. DREISSINA. The same, with a septiform plate. Fig. 159.
3. MODIOLA. Anterior margin rounded beyond the umbones. Fig. 160.
4. PINNA. Open at the posterior extremity. Fig. 162.
5. LITHODOMUS. Cylindrical, living in holes. Fig. 161.
MYTILUS. Auct. _Fam._ Mytilacea. Lam.--_Descr._ Equivalve, cuneiform,
oblique, smooth, with umbones terminal, pointed, and posterior side
broad, rounded; hinge linear, with a long, partly internal ligament;
muscular impressions two in each valve, that on the posterior side
large, irregular; that on the anterior small; palleal impression
irregular.--_Obs._ The Linnean genus Mytilus included the Modiolæ,
which differ from the Mytili in the rounded anterior side; and the
Pinnæ, which are large shells, gaping at the posterior extremity. M.
achatinus, fig. 158.
NÆARA. Gray. A genus composed of ANATINA longirostrum, Lam. and other
similar species.
NAIA. Sw. A sub-genus of Castalia, Lam. thus described: "Oval, cardinal
teeth beneath the bosses, and deeply sulcated, C. corrugata. _Lam._ En.
Méth. 248. f. 8, picta. _Sw._ En. Méth. 248. f. 6." Sw. p. 379.
NANINIA. Gray. A genus composed of the planorbicular species of HELIX,
with large umbilici, and outer lip thin, included in the sub-genus
Helicella, Fer. _Ex._ H. citrina, fig. 280.
NASSA. Lam. A genus of small shells united to Buccinum by some authors,
but separated by others on account of the little tooth-like projection
terminating the columella. N. arcularia, fig. 423.
NATICA. Brug. _Fam._ Neritacea, Lam. Hemicyclostomata, Bl.--_Descr._
Globose, thick, generally smooth; spire short, pointed, with few
volutions; aperture semilunar, entire; outer lip thin; columellar lip
oblique, nearly straight, callous; umbilicus with a spiral callosity,
terminating behind the columella, and sometimes filling up the cavity;
operculum shelly in some species, horny in others; epidermis thin,
light, semitransparent.--_Obs._ The straight, callous, smooth edge of
the columella and the callosity serve to distinguish this genus from
Nerita, Neritina, Neritopsis and Helix. Fig. 327, 328.
NATICARIA. Sw. A sub-genus of Natica, thus described: "Oval; convex
above; umbilicus small, open, placed very near the top of the aperture;
inner lip reflected; small. N. melanostoma, Mart. 189. f. 1926, 1927.
cancellata, _Sw._ Ib. 189. f. 1939. bifasciata, Griff. Cuv. 1. f. 2."
Sw. p. 346.
NATICELLA. Guild. A sub-genus of Natica, thus described: "Operculum
horny; shell globose, but generally depressed; umbilicus nearly filled
up by a vitreous deposition of the inner lip; spire obtuse. N.
aurantia. Mart. 189. f. 1934, 1935." Sw. p. 345.
NAVICELLA. Lam. (_A little ship._) _Fam._ Neritacea, Lam.
Hemicyclostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Transversely oval, symmetrical, smooth;
aperture entire, oval; dorsal surface convex; outer lip thin; inner lip
flat, straight edged; spread over the front surface of the body whorl,
and sometimes hiding the apex; apex incurved; operculum testaceous,
flat, sub-quadrate, with a lateral articulation.--_Obs_. This well
known genus, of which there are several species, is named Cimber by
Montfort. The shells are brought from India, the Isle of France and the
Moluccas. Fig. 323, N. elliptica.
NAUTELLIPSITES. Parkinson. A generic name proposed to include such
species of Nautilus as have been compressed, so as to assume an oval
instead of a round form. The genus Ellipsolites of De Montfort consists
of species of Ammonites similarly deformed.
NAUTILACEA. Bl. The fifth family of Polythalamacea, Bl. the shells of
which are described as more or less discoidal, compressed,
symmetrically convolute; the last whorl much longer than the others;
which are entirely hidden beneath it and advancing beyond the last but
one, so as constantly to form a large oval aperture, which is always,
however, modified by the last whorl. The septa are united in the
greater number of instances and pierced by one or more (?) siphons.
This family contains the genera Orbulites, Nautilus, Polystomella and
Lenticulina.
NAUTILACEA. Lam. The sixth family of Polythalamous Cephalopoda, Lam.
containing the genera Discorbites, Siderolites, Polystomella,
Vorticialis, Nummulites, Nautilus. To these may be added Simplegas and
Endosiphonites. Fig. 472 to 476.
NAUTILUS. Auct. (_A little boat._) _Fam._ Nautilacea, Lam. and
Bl.--_Descr._ Convolute, discoid, chambered, symmetrical; spire partly
or entirely concealed by the last whorl; aperture modified by the last
whorl, wide, sinuated on the dorsal margin; interior surface pearly;
septa dividing the chambers simple; siphon discontinuous.--_Obs._ The
shell named Nautilus by Pliny is the Argonauta of modern authors, a
thin shell, not chambered. The Nautili are known from the Ammonites by
the septa being simple, not sinuated as in the latter genus, and in
general the volutions of the spire are not visible. Three or four
species are known inhabitants of the Pacific Ocean and Australian
Ocean. The fossil species are found in the tertiary, and also in the
secondary strata, as low down as the Mountain limestone. N. pompilius,
Frontispiece.
NAYADES. Lam. A family of the order Conchifera Dimyaria, Lam. described
as containing fresh-water bivalve shells, with or without teeth on the
hinge. They are all pearly within, and have a thick, rather smooth
epidermis without. This family contains a great variety of shells,
which have been separated into an immense number of genera, but which
G. B. Sowerby, sen. gives very good reasons for uniting under one
generic name. The most generally received distinctions are as follows:
1. CASTALIA. Two cardinal, one lateral, ribbed teeth. This genus is
removed from the family of Trigonacea. Fig. 140.
2. UNIO. Teeth various. Fig. 142, 145, 149, 148, 147, 151, 141.
3. HYRIA. Trigonal, alated. Fig. 143, 150.
4. ANODON. No teeth. Fig. 152.
5. IRIDINA. Hinge crenated. Fig. 150.
NECTOPODA. Bl. The first family Nucleobranchiata, Bl. containing the
genera Carinaria and Firola; the latter is not a shell.
NEMATOPODA. Bl. The first class of the sub-type Malentozoa, Bl.
containing all the mollusca with multivalve shells, except Chiton, and
divided into the families Lepadicea and Balanidea, corresponding with
Lamarck's sessile and pedunculated Cirripedes, and with the Linnæan
genus Lepas.
NEMATURA. Benson. _Fam._ Turbinacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Thin, nearly oval,
somewhat compressed from back to front; spire acute, consisting of few
rounded whorls; last whorl large, but contracted near the aperture;
aperture small, oblique, rounded anteriorly; peritreme continuous,
thin; operculum spiral, horny, with few volutions.--_Obs._ The
distinguishing character of this genus is the contraction of the last
whorl near the aperture, in which respect it is nearly resembled by the
shell called Cyclostoma lucidum. Two recent and one fossil species, all
very minute, are described by Sowerby in Loudon's Magazine of Natural
History, New Series. Fig. 305.
NERINEA. Defr. _Fam._ Canalifera, Lam.--_Descr._ Turrited, oblong,
sub-canaliculated, consisting of numerous whorls; aperture with a
strong fold on the columella, one on the outer lip, and one on the
inner lip at the edge of the body whorl.--_Obs._ This genus is only
found in a fossil state usually in the Oolitic beds, it is not
resembled by any other; the strong, prominent folds on the three upper
angles of the subquadrate aperture present a singular appearance in a
section. One species has been named N. Hieroglyphus. We give N.
Goodhallii, fig. 374.
NERITA. Auct. _Fam._ Neritacea, Lam. Hemicyclostomata, Bl.--_Descr._
Smooth or ribbed, semiglobose; spire short, sometimes flat, consisting
of few volutions; aperture large, semilunar; outer lip thick, entire;
inner lip thickened, dentated at the edge, spread over the body whorl,
forming a flattened disc; operculum shelly, spiral, with an appendage
by which it is locked under the sharp edge of the columella.--_Obs._
These marine shells are known from Neritina by the thickness of the
shell and the want of the thick, horny, dark coloured epidermis; from
Natica by the flat area produced by the spreading of the thickened
columellar lip. N. Peloronta, fig. 330. N. polita, fig. 329.
NERITACEA. Lam. A family of the first order of Trachelipoda, Lam.
containing the following genera:
1. NAVICELLA. Apex terminal, not spiral; inner lip septiform. Fig.
323.
2. NERITA. Columellar lip septiform, edge with distinct teeth;
shell thick. Fig. 330.
3. NERITINA. Shell thin; columellar lip septiform, edge
denticulated; generally a thick, dark coloured epidermis. Fig. 324
to 326.
4. NATICA. Having an umbilicus behind the columellar lip, with a
spiral callosity. Fig. 327, 328.
5. NERITOPSIS. Edge of the columellar lip with a deep notch. Fig.
331.
6. PILEOLUS. Patelliform; apex central; columellar lip septiform,
leaving the aperture small. Fig. 332.
7. JANTHINA. Columellar lip linear; aperture angulated. Fig. 333.
NERITINA. Lam. _Fam._ Neritacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Thin, semiglobose,
obliquely oval, smooth, flattish in front; spire short, sometimes
depressed, consisting of few rapidly increasing whorls; aperture
semicircular; outer lip thin, sharp; columellar lip broad, flat, its
inner edge straight, denticulated; operculum testaceous, semicircular,
sub-spiral, with an articulating process on the inner edge.--_Obs._
This genus of fresh-water shells differs from Nerita in the minuteness
of the denticulation of the columella, as well as in the characters
mentioned in our observations upon the latter genus. N. spinosa,
(Clithon, Montf.) fig. 325. N. virginea, fig. 324. N. perversa, Lam.
(Velates, Montf.) fig. 326. All the species known up to the present
time, with the exception of three, are represented in the author's
Conchological Illustrations, parts 86, 87, 90, 91, 94 to 100. The
catalogue accompanying these representations enumerates 59 species.
NERITOPSIS. Gray. _Fam._ Neritacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Sub-globose, thick,
cancellated; spire short, composed of few rapidly increasing whorls;
aperture transverse, sub-orbicular; outer lip thickened within;
columellar lip thick, rather flat, with a large rounded notch in the
centre of its inner edge.--_Obs._ This genus most nearly resembles
Nerita, from which it differs in the peculiar notch of the columella.
N. granosa, fig. 331.
NICANIA. Leach. ASTARTE, Sowerby. The same as CRASSINA of Lamarck.
NITIDELLA. Sw. A genus of "Columbellinæ," Sw. thus described:
"Bucciniform, small, ovate, smooth, glassy; aperture effuse; outer lip
slightly thickened, faintly inflexed, and generally striated
internally; inner lip somewhat flattened above; base of the pillar with
one or two slight internal folds, or a single angular projection.
Columbella nitida, _Lam._ (fig. 17, _c._ p. 151.)" Sw. p. 313.
NOBIA. Leach. _Order_, Sessile Cirripedes, Lam. This genus resembles
Pyrgoma, Auct. consisting of a conical paries, supported upon a
funnel-shaped cavity in the madrepore, but differs in its operculum,
which consists of two valves, whereas that of Pyrgoma has four. N.
grandis, fig. 29.
NODOSARIA. Lam. and ORTHOCERA have been united by Sowerby under the
name of the first. _Fam._ Orthocerata, Lam. and Bl.--_Descr._ Straight,
chambered, elongated; chambers more or less ventricose; septa
perforated by a central siphon.--_Obs._ This genus consists only of
fossils found in sub-appenine tertiary beds. It is placed by De
Blainville in one of his divisions of the genus Orthoceras, which is
characterized as "species not striated, and with chambers very much
inflated." N. æqualis, fig. 465.
NODOSE. Having tubercles or knobs.
NOGROBS. Montf. A fossil appearing from the figure and description to
resemble Belemnites.
NONION. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
NONIONINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
NOTREMA. Rafinesque. A shell described as composed of three integral
valves, concerning which De Blainville puts the query, "ne seroit-ce
pas plutôt une Balanide mal observée?"
NOVACULINA. Benson. (_Novacula_, a razor.) _Fam._ Solenacea,
Lam.--_Descr._ Equivalve, inequilateral, transversely elongated;
external ligament communicating with the interior of the shell by an
oblique channel; beaks prominent; hinge line nearly straight, with one
narrow curved cardinal tooth in one valve, entering between two similar
teeth in the other; siphonal scar long; extremities of the shell
gaping; epidermis thin, light brown, folding over the edges and
connecting the dorsal margins. _Hab._ Jumna, Gooti, and Ganges. Fig.
63.
NUCLEOBRANCHIATA. Bl. The fifth order of the second section of
Paracephalophora Monoica, Bl. the shells of which are described as
symmetrical, more or less curved, or longitudinally rolled up and very
thin. This order contains, _Fam._ 1. Nectopoda, containing Carinaria;
_Fam._ 2. Pteropoda, containing Atlanta, Spiratella and Argonauta.
NUCLEUS. (_A kernel._) Anything forming a centre around which matter is
gathered. The nucleus of shells is the first formed part; the first
deposit of shelly matter to which the successive layers are added; the
apex of the spiral cone, of which most shells are composed. (See CONE.)
The nucleus is formed within the egg in oviparous, and within the old
shell in viviparous mollusca. It is frequently more transparent and
light than the remainder of the shell, and sometimes falls off; when
this occurs the shell is said to be decollated.
NUCULA. Lam. (_A small nut._) _Fam._ Arcacea, Bl. and Lam.--_Descr._
Equivalve, inequilateral, transverse, covered with an epidermis; hinge
linear, with a series of sharp, angulated teeth, arranged in a line on
each side of the umbones, and a central ligamentary pit; muscular
impressions two, simple; palleal impressions not sinuated.--_Obs._ The
row of teeth on each side of the umbones, and the ligamentary pit in
the centre of the hinge prevent the pretty little shells of this genus
from being confounded with any other. Thirty-four figures are
enumerated in the catalogue by Sowerby, sen. which accompanies the
Conchological Illustrations of the author. The new species, to the
amount of 24, have been figured in parts 14 to 16, of the above
mentioned work. Recent Nuculæ are found from the frozen to the torrid
zones, and the fossil species occur in nearly all the beds from the
Pliocene to the Carboniferous system.
NUMMULACEA. Bl. The third family of Cellulacea, Bl. described as
containing shells or calcareous bodies, which are characterized as
discoidal, lenticular; without the slightest traces of whorls to be
seen externally. The whorls are numerous, internal, and divided into a
great number of cells, which are separated from each other by
imperforate septa. This family contains the genera Nummulites,
Siderolites, Vorticialis, Helicites, Orbiculina, Placentula.
NUMMULTTES. Lam. (_Nummus_, money.) _Fam._ Nautilacea, Lam.--_Descr._
Orbicular, convolute, shewing no trace of spire externally; interior
divided into cells spirally arranged.--_Obs._ The singular fossils
composing this genus receive their name from their external resemblance
to a battered coin. Fig. 472. N. lenticulina.
NUX. Humph. CYCLAS, Lam.
NYMPHACEA. Lam. A family belonging to the order Conchifera Dimyaria,
Lam. Ligament external, placed on a prominent fulcrum. This family
contains the following genera:
1. SANGUINOLARIA. Rostrated, gaping; two cardinal teeth in each
valve, including _Soletellina_ and _Lobaria_. Fig. 98, 99.
2. PSAMMOBIA. Quadrate; valves closed, including Psammotæa. Fig.
100.
3. CORBIS. Thick, fimbriated; a cardinal tooth in the centre of a
pit. Fig. 101.
4. GRATELOUPIA. A series of small teeth filling a triangular area.
Fig. 102.
5. EGERIA. One single and one double cardinal tooth. Fig. 103.
6. LUCINA. Rounded; anterior muscular impression tongue-shaped.
Fig. 104.
7. TELLINA. An anterior fold in the ventral margin; lateral teeth.
Fig. 105, 106.
8. TELLINIDES. No anterior fold; no lateral teeth. Fig. 107.
9. DONAX. Margin denticulated; shell wedge-shaped. Fig. 108.
10. CAPSA. Margin not denticulated, no lateral teeth. Fig. 109.
OBELISCUS. Humph. TROCHUS, Lam.
OBLIQUE. (_obliquus._ lat.) In a slanting direction. The whorls of
spiral univalves generally take an oblique direction in reference to
the imaginary axis of the shell. A bivalve is said to be oblique when
it slants off from the umbones. An example of this is seen in Avicula,
fig. 163.
OBSOLETE. (_obsoletus_, lat.) Worn out, out of use. This term is used
to express an indistinctness of character, which sometimes results from
the action of sea-water upon unprotected parts of the shell, and
sometimes from the deposits of enamel formed in age, and covering the
early striæ, ribs, teeth, &c. thereby rendering them less acute.
OBTUSE. (_obtusus_, blunt.) The application of this term is not
peculiar to conchology. It is most frequently used to express the
character of the spire. _Ex_. The apex of Megaspira, fig. 294.
OCEANUS. Montf. ("Corne d'ammon vivant," Fr.) NAUTILUS umbilicatus,
Auct.
OCTHOSIA. Ranz. CLITIA, Leach.
OCTOCERA. Bl. The first family of the order Cryptodibranchiata, Bl.
containing the genus Octopus. A species of which being found in the
Argonauta, or Paper Sailor, has given rise to the long continued
controversy as to whether it is really the constructor of the shell, or
whether it is a mere pirate, and having destroyed the true animal of
the Argonaut, has possessed itself of the habitation. This question is
now set at rest. See ARGONAUTA.
OCTOGONAL. (_octogonum._) Having eight angles. For an example, see
Dentalium, fig. 2.
OCTOMERIS. Sow. ([Greek: oktô], _octo_, eight; [Greek: meros], _meros_,
part.) _Fam._ Balanidea, Bl. _Order_, Sessile Cirripedes,
Lam.--_Descr._ Eight principal valves circularly arranged, forming a
compressed cone, attached by a jagged base; aperture enclosed by an
operculum, consisting of four valves in pairs.--_Obs._ The only genus
of Sessile Cirripedes agreeing with this in the number of principal
valves is Catophragmus, Sow. which is, however, sufficiently
distinguished by the several rows of smaller valves by which the
principals are surrounded at the base. O. angulosus, fig. 24.
ODONTIS. Sow. MONODONTA, Lam.
ODOSTOMIA. Flem. _Descr._ "Shell conical; aperture ovate; peristome
incomplete, retrally, and furnished with a tooth on the pillar." A
genus composed of several small species of land shells. Turbo plicatus,
Spiralis, Unidentatus, &c. Mont.
OLIVA. Auct. (_An olive._) _Fam._ Convoluta, Lam. Angyostomata.
Bl.--_Descr._ Oblong, cylindrical, thick, smooth, shining; spire very
short, with sutures distinct, aperture elongated, notched at both
extremities; outer lip generally thick; columella thick, obliquely
striated, terminated by a tumid, oblique, striated varix; a raised band
passing round the lower part of the body whorl.--_Obs._ The shells
composing this well known genus present a great variety of rich
markings and brilliant colours. They are marine and tropical. Fossil
species are found sparingly in the London Clay and Calcaire-grossièr.
The Ancillariæ are distinguished from this genus by the sutures of the
whorls being covered by enamel. O. maura, fig. 457.
OLIVELLA. Sw. A genus of "Olivinæ," Sw. thus described: "Oliviform;
spire (typically) rather produced; the tip acute; inner lip not
thickened; outer lip straight; base of the pillar curved inwards, and
marked by two strong plaits; upper plaits obsolete or wanting; aperture
effused at the base only; biplicata, Tank. Cat. 2332. purpurata. Zool.
Ill. ii. 58. f. 1. mutabilis. _Say._ eburnea. Zool. Ill. ii. 58, f. 2.
conoidalis. _Lam._ No. 57. oryza. _Lam._ No. 62."
OLYGYRA. Say. Mentioned by Ranz as properly belonging to Helicina. H.
neritella, Auct.
OMALAXIS. Desh. Subsequently BIFRONTIA. Desh. Fig. 354.
ONISCIA. Sow. (G. B.) _Fam._ Purpurifera, Lam. Entomostomata,
Bl.--_Descr._ Oblong, sub-ovate, slightly turbinated, cancellated;
spire short; aperture elongated; terminating anteriorly in a very
short, recurved canal; outer lip thickened, denticulated within; inner
lip spread over a portion of the body whorl, granulated.--_Obs._ The
granulated inner lip is the principal character by which this genus is
distinguished from Cassidaria. In Oniscia the canal is not so produced.
O. oniscus, fig. 409.
ONUSTUS. Humph. A genus proposed by Humphrey and adopted by Swainson
who describes it thus: "Shell trochiform; the surface irregular, and
often covered with extraneous bodies, cemented and incorporated with
the calcareous substance of the shell; the under part of the body whorl
flattened or concave, umbilicate. O. Solaris. Mart. 173. f. 1700, 1701.
Indicus. Ib. 172. f. 1697. 1698." It is probable, from the above
description, that Mr. Swainson intended to include Trochus agglutinans
of authors. (Genus Phorus, Montf.) Fig. 360.
OPERCULAR. Of, or belonging to, the operculum. A term applied to the
valves which compose the operculum of multivalve shells, as
distinguished from the parietal valves, or those which are arranged
circularly and form the body of the shell.
OPERCULINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
OPERCULUM. (_A cover or lid._) The plate or plates with which many
molluscous animals enclose the aperture of their shells, when retired
within them. The operculum is sometimes horny, as in Trochus;
testaceous or shelly, as in Turbo. It is spiral when from a central or
sub-central nucleus, the successive layers take a revolving direction,
as in Trochus. It is concentric or annular when the outside edge of
each layer entirely surrounds the preceding one. It is unguiculated,
when the laminæ are placed side by side, as in Purpura. The opercula of
multivalve shells are composed of two or four pieces, which are called
the opercular valves. The shelly or membranaceous plate with which some
of the animals enclose the aperture of their shells, during the wintry
part of the year, for the purpose of protecting them while in a torpid
state, and which they get rid of by dissolving the edges, when
preparing to emerge from their temporary retirement, must not be
considered as the operculum, as it does not belong to or form part of
either the animal or its shell, but is produced for the occasion by a
secretion of the animal, being deposited in a soft state and
subsequently hardening. It is called the epiphragm, and may easily be
distinguished from the true operculum by the texture, and by the
circumstance of their being soldered to the edge of the aperture. The
operculum, on the contrary, is moveable, and is always composed of a
series of successive layers, corresponding with the growth of the
shell.
OPIS. Defr. A genus described by De Blainville as consisting of species
of Trigonia which have the umbones sub-spiral, with a large, striated
tooth on the hinge. Opis cardissoides, Trigonia, Lam. Opis similis,
Sow. Min. Con. pl. 232. f. 2.
ORAL. (_Os_, _oris_, mouth.) Applied to that part of a shell which
corresponds with the mouth of the animal, but very seldom used in this
sense.
ORBICULA. Lam. (_Orbis_, an orb.) _Fam._ Brachiopoda, Lam.
Palliobranchiata, Bl.--_Descr._ Inequivalve, irregular, sub-orbicular,
compressed, attached by a fibrous substance passing through a fissure
near the centre of the lower valve; upper valve patelliform, with the
umbo central; muscular impressions four in each valve, semilunar. South
America and West Indies.--_Obs._ Discina, Lam. is an Orbicula. Crania
is known from this genus by having no fissure in the lower valve, but
being attached by its substance. Hipponyx has only two muscular
impressions in each valve. O. lævis, fig. 201.
ORBICULAR. (_Orbiculus_, a little orb.) Of a round or circular form.
ORBICULINA. Lam. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
ORBIS. Lea. A minute fossil, described as "orbicular, with flat
quadrate whorls and aperture square," in other respects resembling
Solarium. O. Rotella, fig. 355, 356.
ORBITINA. Risso. A genus said to be established upon the nuclei of two
land shells.
ORBULITES. Lam. A genus separated from Ammonites on account of the last
volution covering the spire. This is generally considered as
characterizing the Nautili, and distinguishing them from the Ammonites;
but there are so many gradations that it seems impossible to maintain
the distinction in this respect. Fig. 479, O. crassus, fig. 480, O.
discus.
OREAS. Montf. Part of CRISTELLARIA, Lam. A genus of microscopic
Foraminifera.
ORTHIS. Dalman. ([Greek: orthos], _orthos_, straight.) _Fam._
Brachiopoda, Lam. One of the generic divisions of Brachiopoda by
Dalman, thus described: "Hinge rectilinear, with umbones distant; the
larger valve with a transverse, basal, smooth area, with a triangular
pit." O. basalis, fig. 207.
ORTHOCERA. Lam. See NODOSARIA.
ORTHOCERATA. Lam. A family of Polythalamous Cephalopoda, Lam.
containing the following genera:--
1. CONULARIA. Conical, externally striated; no siphon. Fig. 469.
2. AMPLEXUS. Cylindrical; margins of the septa reflected. Fig. 463.
3. ORTHOCERATITES. Straight, gradually conical; septa simple;
siphon central. Fig. 464.
4. NODOSARIA. Divided externally into lobes. Fig. 465.
5. BELEMNITES. Straight, conical; septa simple; siphon lateral;
apex solid; internal cast, or nucleus, pyramidal, separable. Fig.
466 to 468.
6. CONILITES. Like Belemnites, but external shell thin at the apex.
Fig. 470.
ORTHOCERATA. Bl. The first family of Polythalamacea, Bl. containing the
genera Belemnites, Conularia, Conilites, Orthoceras and Baculites. De
Blainville remarks that the genera included in this family are all
fossils, and known very imperfectly, in consequence of the greater part
of the specimens being only casts.
ORTHOCERATITES. Auct. _Fam._ Orthocerata, Lam. and Bl.--_Descr._
Straight, conical, divided into numerous chambers by simple septa
perforated by a central siphon. O. annulata, fig. 464.
OSTEODESMA. Desh. PERIPLOMA, Schum.
OSTRACEA. (_Ostracées_, Lam.) A family belonging to the second section
of the order Conchifera Monomyaria, the shells of which are described
as irregular, foliaceous, sometimes papyraceous, with the ligament
wholly or partly interior. The principal difference between the
Ostracea and the Pectinides consists in the absence of the auricles and
the foliated structure of the shells, for, although the Spondylus has
ex-foliations or spines upon the external surface, the shell itself is
compact and firm. This family contains the genera Gryphæa, Ostrea,
Vulsella, Placuna, Anomia, which may be thus distinguished:--
1. PEDUM. Flat, turned up at the sides, an hiatus for the passage
of a byssus. A triangular disc on the hinge. Fig. 179.
2. OSTREA. Foliaceous, irregular, hinge on a small triangular disc.
Including Dendostrea, Ostræa, Exogyra, Gryphæa. Fig. 180 to 183.
3. PLACUNA. Two diverging ribs near the umbones. Fig. 184.
4. PLACUNANOMIA. The same, but attached by fibres passing through a
hole in one valve. Fig. 189 to 191.
5. ANOMIA. No costæ, attached by a bony substance passing through a
hole in one valve. Fig. 186 to 188.
6. VULSELLA. Tongue-shaped, a ligamentary pit on the hinge. Fig.
185.
7. MULLERIA. Doubtful. Fig. 192.
OSTRACEA. Bl. The first family of the order Lamellibranchiata, Bl.
containing the genera Anomia, Placuna, Harpax, Ostrea (including
Dendostrea, Sw.) Gryphæa. To these may be added Placunanomia, Brod. and
Mulleria.
OSTREA. Auct. ([Greek: ostreon], _ostreon_, a bone.) _Fam._ Ostracea,
Lam. and Bl.--_Descr._ Irregular, inequivalve, generally inequilateral,
foliaceous, attached by part of the lower valve; hinge sometimes
slightly crenated; destitute of teeth; with the ligament spread upon
the lower part of a central, triangular area, which is divided into
three parts; upper valve much flatter than the lower; muscular
impressions one in each valve, large, sub-central, sub-orbicular, with
one very minute.--_Obs._ The Linnæan Genus Ostrea includes the Pectens
and many other genera so different from each other that, without any
desire to increase the number of genera, it was found necessary by
subsequent authors to separate them. The common Oyster is the type of
this genus as at present constituted, and is well known to be abundant
in various parts of the world. Those which depart furthest from this
type are the Gryphæa, Lam. with a prominent, incurved umbo in the lower
valve. The Dendostrea, Sw. with margins characterized by strongly
angulated folds, throws out arms from the lower valve, by which they
are attached to stems of sea-weed, &c. Fig. 180, O. edulis. Fig. 181,
O. folium. (Dendostrea, Sw.) Fig. 182, Gryphæa incurva. Fig. 183,
Exogyra conica.
OTIDES. Bl. The first order of Scutibranchiata, Bl. containing the
genera Haliotis and Ancylus.
OTION. Leach. ([Greek: ôtion], a little ear.) _Order._ Pedunculated
Cirripedes, Lam.--_Descr._ Body sub-quadrate, supported on a fleshy
pedicle with a gaping aperture and two posterior auricular tubes;
valves five, separate, two semilunar, placed at the sides of the
aperture, two terminal, very small, one dorsal, minute.--_Obs._ Otion
differs from Cineras in having two cylindrical posterior tubes, and in
the extreme minuteness of three out of five of the valves. Found on
spars floating in the sea, &c. O. Cuvierii, (Lepas aurita, Linn.) Fig.
43, O. Cuvieri.
OTIS. Humph. AURICULA, Lam.
OVATE. (_Ovatus._) Egg-shaped or oval.
OVEOLITHES. Montf. A microscopic shell resembling Bulla.
OVIPAROUS MOLLUSCA. Those which produce their young in eggs. Used in
distinction from the VIVIPAROUS MOLLUSCA, whose young are perfectly
formed before they leave the body of the parent.
OUTER LIP. See LABRUM.
OVULUM. Brug. (_Ovum_, an egg, dim.) _Fam._ Convoluta, Lam.
Angyostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Ovate or fusiform, smooth, convolute, spire
covered; aperture narrow, with a canal at each extremity; outer lip
crenulated, inflected; inner lip smooth, callous towards the spiral
extremity; dorsal area wide, sometimes indistinctly marked.--_Obs._ The
Ovula were placed by Linnæus in his genus Bulla, from which they are
very remote. They differ from Cypræa in having the inner lip smooth. We
have given representations of their different forms as follows: O.
Ovum, fig. 442. O. verrucosum, (Calpurnus Montf.) fig. 441. O. Volva,
the weaver's shuttle (Radius, Montf.) fig. 442. O. gibbosum, (Ultimus,
Montf.) fig. 443.
OXYSTOMATA. Bl. The fifth family of Asiphonibranchiata, Bl. This family
appears to have been formed for the express purpose of providing a
place in the system for the genus Janthina, which seems to bear so
little analogy with other genera of Mollusca, that conchological
writers have been puzzled to know where to place it.
PACHYLABRA. Sw. PACHYSTOMA, Guild. A sub-genus of Ampullaria, the outer
lip of which is thickened within. _Ex._ Ampullaria globosa.
PACHYMYA. Sow. ([Greek: pachus], _pachus_, thick, and _Mya_.) _Fam._
Cardiacea? Lam.--_Descr._ Obliquely elongated, equivalve, thick,
sub-bilobed, with beaks near the anterior extremity; ligament partly
immersed attached to prominent fulcra.--_Obs._ This singular fossil is
shaped like Modiola, but the shell being extremely thick, and the
ligament attached to a prominent fulcrum, it is difficult to know where
to place it. Fig. 130, Pachymya Gigas.
PACHYSTOMA. Guild. ([Greek: pachus], _pachus_, thick; [Greek: stoma],
_stoma_, mouth.) A genus composed of such species of Ampullaria, Auct.
as have the edge of the aperture thickened and grooved within so as to
form a sort of ledge upon which the operculum rests. Ampullaria globosa
and corrugata are examples of this variation. The name Pachylabra is
given to such species by Swainson, who objects to the above name on
account of its having been previously used to a genus of fishes. Fig.
539.
PACHYTOMA. Sw. A sub-genus of Helicina, thus described, "Aperture
entire; the inner lip very thick; the spiral whorls hardly convex; P.
occidentalis. Zool. J. iii. 15. f. 6-10. viridis, Zool. Journ. i. pl.
6. f. 7." Sw. p. 337.
PACLITES. Montf. A genus composed of species of Belemnites, Auct.
described towards the extremity, with a pore, at the apex, and a
straight lengthened aperture. _Ex._ B. ungulatus, Bl.
PADOLLUS. Montf. A genus composed of species of HALIOTIS, with a
strongly marked spiral groove. _Ex._ H. tricostalis, Lam. Fig. 339.
PAGODELLA. Sw. A sub-genus of Trochus, thus described: "Trochiform;
generally thin, and always not pearlaceous; aperture and pillar
perfectly united and entire; operculum horny. P. major. Mart. 163. f.
1541, 1542. tectum-persicum. Ib. f. 1543, 1544." Sw. p. 351.
PALLEAL IMPRESSION. (_Pallium_, a mantle.) The mark or groove formed in
a bivalve shell by the muscular attachment of the mantle, which, being
always found near the margin of the shell, is sometimes termed the
marginal impression. In bivalves with two muscular impressions it
passes from one to the other. If in passing, it takes a bend inwards
posteriorly, it is said to be sinuated, and that part is called by Mr.
Gray, the Siphonal scar.
PALLIOBRANCHIATA. Bl. The first order of the class Acephalophora. Bl.
The animals of this order are described as more or less compressed,
included between the two valves of a bivalve shell, one inferior, the
other superior, joining at the back and opening in front. The
Palliobranchiata in the system of De Blainville correspond with the
Brachiopoda in the system of Lamarck, and the shells may be known by
their being symmetrical. This order contains in the first section of
symmetrical bivalves, Lingula, Terebratula, Thecidium, Strophomena,
Plagiostoma, Dianchora and Podopsis: in the second section, Orbicula
and Crania.
PALMATED. Flattened like a palm, as the fronds or fringes of some
Murices.
PALMINA. Gray. Differing from OTION in having but one auricle.
PALUDINA. Lam. _Fam._ Peristomata, Lam. Cricostomata, Bl--_Descr._
Varying in form from oval to globose, in some instances oblong, covered
with a greenish horny epidermis; spire acute, composed of rounded
whorls; aperture ovate; peritreme entire, slightly modified by the last
whorl; operculum horny, concentric. Europe, North America, East Indies,
China, &c.--_Obs._ The construction of the operculum distinguishes this
genus of freshwater shells from Valvata and Cyclostoma. The Paludinæ
are viviparous. Fig. 321. P. Achatina.
PALUDOMUS. Sw. A genus of the family of "Melanianæ," Sw. described as
differing from Melania in having the spire shorter than the aperture.
Sw. p. 340.
PANDORA. Brug. _Fam._ Corbulacea, Lam. Pyloridea, Bl.--_Descr._ Thin,
inequivalve, pearly within, rounded anteriorly, rostrated posteriorly;
right valve flat with a cardinal tooth, or short rib, and a slit
containing the cartilage with a narrow plate on the dorsal edge turned
towards the left valve; left valve concave, with a receptacle for the
cardinal tooth of the right valve and the internal cartilage; no
external ligament. Europe, America, Ceylon, &c.--_Obs._ This well known
genus is in no danger of being confounded with any other shell. Fig.
90. P. rostrata.
PANOPÆA. Menard. _Fam._ Solenacea, Lam. Pyloridea, Bl.--_Descr._
Equivalve, inequilateral, oval, gaping at both extremities; hinge with
an acute cardinal tooth in each valve, and a large callosity near the
umbones supporting the ligament; muscular impressions two, distant,
oval; palleal impression with a large sinus. Britain, North America,
Mediterranean, Australia, &c.--_Obs._ This genus resembles Mya in
general appearance, but differs in having an external ligament and a
sharp tooth, instead of the broad spoon-shaped process in the hinge of
the latter genus. Fig. 65. P. Australis.
PAPER SAILOR. A common name given to the Argonauta.
PAPILLARY. (_Papilla_, a teat.) Shaped like a teat. This term is
applied by conchologists when the apex of the spire of an univalve
shell is rounded like a teat and not spiral up to the extreme point; as
the apex of Cymba, fig. 434.
PAPYRACEOUS. (_Papyrus_, a kind of paper made of the flags of the river
Nile in Egypt.) Of a thin, light texture, resembling that of paper. An
example of this is to be seen in the Argonauta, commonly called the
"Paper Sailor," fig. 485, and in the Pholas papyracea, fig. 56.
PAPYRIDEA. Sw. A sub-genus of Cardium, thus described; "Shell
heart-shaped, or transversely oval; inequilateral; the anterior side
almost always gaping; representing the Pholidæ. P. Soleniforme, Wood,
Conch. pl. 56. f. 3.--apertum, Ib. 56. f. 2.--transversum, Sow. Conch.
f. 4.--ringens, Wood, pl. 53. f. 1, 2."
PARACEPHALOPHORA. Bl. The second class of the type Malacozoa, Bl.
divided into the sub-classes: P. dioica, P. monoica, P. hermaphrodita.
PARIES. (_A wall._) The principal part of a multivalve shell, forming a
circular wall round the body of the animal, and composed of one or more
valves which are called the parietal valves.
PARIETAL VALVES. The principal valves of multivalve shells surrounding
the body like a wall; as distinguished from the opercular valves, or
those which compose the operculum.
PARMACELLA. Cuv. (_A little cell._) _Fam._ Limacinea, Lam. and
Bl.--_Descr._ Haliotoid, internal, thin; spire flat, consisting of one
or two rapidly increasing whorls; aperture as large as the whole shell,
with the dorsal margins inflected.--_Obs._ This description applies to
Parmacella of Cuvier. The shell figured in Sowerby's Genera under that
name is Cryptella of Webb. Fig. 257, P. Olivieri. Fig. 258, P.
Palliolum.
PARMOPHORUS. Bl. A genus composed of EMARGINULA elongata, Auct. and
other species of a similarly elongated form. Australian. Fig. 242. P.
elongatus.
PARTULA. Fer. _Fam._ Colimacea, Lam. Auriculacea, Fer.--_Descr._
Conical, smooth; spire equal to the aperture in length, consisting of
few whorls; aperture auriform; outer lip reflected, broad; inner lip
reflected, with a slight prominence on the columella. P. australis,
fig. 302.
PASITHÆA. Lea. A genus formed of some pyramidal shells, described as
resembling Melania, but separated from that genus on account of being
marine fossils. Fig. 317, P. striata.
PATELLA. Auct. (_A dish_ or _platter_.) _Fam._ Phyllidiana, Lam.
Retifera, Bl.--_Descr._ Symmetrical, compresso-conical, nearly regular,
oblong or oval; apex sub-central, inclining towards the anterior
margin; aperture oval, forming the base of the shell; internal surface
smooth; with a muscular impression shaped like a horse-shoe, with the
ends bending forwards, encircling and dividing the space all round,
except where the interruption occurs to receive the head of the animal;
external surface ribbed, grooved, striated or banded radiately. On
rocks and sea-weeds in all climates.--_Obs._ Patelloida differs from
Patella in the construction of the animal; Siphonaria, in the lateral
siphon; and Ancylus, in the oblique twist of the axis, as well as in
the nature of the animal. The Patellæ are marine. Fig. 229, P. Oculus.
PATELLIFORM. (_Patella_, a dish; _forma_, shape.) Shaped like a dish,
or like shells of the genus Patella.
PATELLOIDA. Quoy and Gaimard. LOTTIA, Gray.--_Fam._ Phyllidiana,
Lam.--_Descr._ Patelliform, rather flat; apex obtuse, leaning towards
the posterior margin; muscular impression not symmetrical, but widest
on the right side near the head of the animal; central disc of a
variable brown colour. On rocks and sea-weeds in all climates.--_Obs._
The shells of this genus so closely resemble Patella that it is almost
impossible to make the distinction from the shells alone. They are,
however, generally flatter, and have the apex placed somewhat nearer
the posterior margin. The animals are very distinct. Fig. 231, P.
Antillarum.
PATELLOIDEA, Bl. or patelliform shells. The third family of the order
Monopleurobranchiata, Bl.; the animals of which are described as
depressed, flattened, covered by a wide external shell, which is
patelliform and non-symmetrical. This family contains the genera
Umbrella and Siphonaria.
PATROCLES. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
PATULARIA. Sw. A sub-genus of "Anodontinæ," Sw. thus described: "Shell
nearly equilateral, round or cordate; no teeth. P. ovata, Sw." _Ex._
_Conch._ pl. 36. rotundatus, Ib. pl. 137.
PAVONIA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
PAXYODON. Schum. HYRIA, Lam.
PECTEN. Brug. (_A comb._) _Fam._ Pectenides, Lam. Subostracea,
Bl.--_Descr._ Inequivalve, ribbed longitudinally, nearly equilateral,
with a triangular auricle on each side of the umbones; hinge linear,
destitute of teeth, having a central pit containing the cartilage;
muscular impressions one in each valve, large, sub-central.--_Obs._
This genus of beautiful shells, to which the well known Scallop
belongs, contains numerous species, some of which are found in the
British Seas. The Hinnites Pusio (P. Pusio of some authors) has been
separated on account of the irregularity of the external surface of one
valve. Fig. 171 to 173.
PECTENIDES. Lam. A family belonging to the second section of the order
Conchifera Dimyaria, Lam. including the following genera.
1. PECTEN. Unattached, including _Decatopecten_ and _Hinnites_.
Fig. 171, 172, 173.
2. LIMA. Unattached, gaping, Fig. 174.
3. PLAGIOSTOMA. Unattached, with an area between the umbones. Fig.
176.
4. DIANCHORA. Attached by the point of the umbo. Fig. 175.
5. SPONDYLUS. Attached, irregular, a triangular area in one valve,
divided by a slit. Fig. 177.
6. PLICATULA. Plicated, a very small area in one valve. Fig. 178.
PECTINATED. (_Pecten_, a comb.) Marked in a regular series of ridges.
PECTUNCULUS. (_Pecten_, dim.) _Fam._ Arcacea, Lam. and Bl.--_Descr._
Equivalve, sub-equilateral, orbicular, thick, covered with a velvety
epidermis, striated longitudinally; ventral margin denticulated within;
hinge semi-circular, with a series of small teeth on each side of the
umbones, which are separated by a small triangular disc in each valve
bearing the ligament; muscular impressions two in each valve, strongly
marked, united by an entire palleal impression.--_Obs._ Linnæan
conchologists have mixed this genus with Arca, from which it is,
however, totally distinct, not only in the roundness of the general
form, but also, and principally, in the curve of the hinge line; in
fact the characters of this genus are so strongly marked that there is
no danger of confounding it with any other. It does not contain many
species; two or three are British. The fossil species occur in London
Clay and Calcaire-grossiér. Fig. 134, P. pilosus.
PEDICLE or PEDUNCLE. (_Pedunculus_, a little foot.) The stem or organ
of attachment of the class of shells called in the system of Lamarck
"Pedunculated Cirripedes," consisting of a fleshy tendinous tube, by
the lower end of which they are attached to sub-marine substances.
PEDICULARIA. Sw. A genus of "Scutibranchia," thus described: "Shell
irregular, sub-patelliform; a thick, large, obsolete apex on one of the
longest sides, and an internal callous rim within, on one side only;
circumference undulated, irregular. P. Sicula, Sw." Sw. p. 357. Sicily.
A singular shell of the nature of Calyptræa, which is found attached to
corals, conforming its shape to the irregularity of their surface, and
fitting closely. _Ex._ Fig. 513.
PEDIPES. Adanson. _Fam._ Auriculacea, Bl. Colimacea, Lam.--_Descr._
Sub-globose, longitudinal, thick, striated; spire equal to the aperture
in length; aperture sub-ovate; peritreme sharp, thickened within,
modified by the last whorl; columella with three strong plaits on the
inner edge; outer lip with one fold.--_Obs._ This genus contains but
one or two small recent species, which in some respects resemble
Auricula, from which it is known by the thickness of its shell, and its
globular form. Fig. 299, P. Adansoni. Coast of Africa.
PEDUM. Lam. (_A shepherd's crook._) _Fam._ Pectinides, Lam.
Sub-ostracea, Bl.--_Descr._ Irregular, inequivalve, sub-equilateral,
attached by a byssus passing through a sinus in the lower valve; hinge
toothless, with a triangular area in each valve, separating the
umbones; ligament contained in a groove running across the area;
muscular impressions one in each valve, large, sub-orbicular; both
valves flat, narrow at the dorsal, broad at the ventral extremities;
lower valve with raised edges overwrapping the upper.--_Obs._ This
singular genus, of which only one species is known, differs from
Ostrea, not only in shape and structure, but also in the mode of
attachment, which is by means of a byssus passing through the lower
valve, in Pedum, but by a portion of the outer surface of the shell in
Ostrea. P. Spondyloideum (fig. 179) is the only species at present
known. Moluccas.
PEDUNCLE. See PEDICLE.
PEDUNCULATED. (_Pedunculus_, a little foot.) Attached to external
objects by a hollow fleshy tube, called the Peduncle.
PEDUNCULATED CIRRIPEDES. Lam. An order consisting of molluscs which
have multivalve shells, supported on a peduncle. The genera which it
contains are thus distinguished:
1. PENTELASMIS. Five valves. Fig. 34.
2. CINERAS. Five very minute valves distant from each other. Fig.
42.
3. OTION. The same, but the animal has two auricles. Fig. 43. The
genus Palmina, Gray, has but one.
4. OCTOLASMIS. Shaped like Pentelasmis, but with 7 or 8 valves.
Fig. 41.
5. LITHOTRYA. Five valves, peduncle scaly with a plate at the base.
Fig. 39.
6. SCALPELLUM. Shape square, valves 13, peduncle scaly. Fig. 35.
7. SMILIUM. Same, but the peduncle hairy. Fig. 36.
8. IBLA. Four valves, one pair long, one pair short, peduncle
hairy. Fig. 40.
9. BRISMEUS. Seven valves, even at the base. Fig. 38.
10. POLLICIPES. Principal valves in pairs, with many smaller valves
at the base. This genus has been divided into _Pollicipes_, and
_Capitellum_, the latter of which is founded upon Pollicipes
Mitellus, Auct. Fig. 37 and 37*.
PELAGUS. Montf. A genus composed of species of AMMONITES, which have
the spire covered by the last whorl, as in Nautilus and have an
umbilicus. ORBULITES. Bl.
PELLUCID. Transparent.
PELORUS. Montf. POLYSTOMELLA, Bl. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
PELORONTA. Oken. NERITA _Peloronta_, Auct. Fig. 330.
PENEROPLIS. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
PENICILLUS. Brug. ASPERGILLUM, Auct.
PENTALEPAS. Bl. PENTELASMIS, Auct.
PENTAMERUS. Sow. ([Greek: Pente], _pente_, five; [Greek: meros],
_meros_, part.) _Fam._ Brachiopoda, Lam.--_Descr._ Equilateral,
inequivalve; one valve divided by a central septum into two parts; the
other by two septa, into three parts; umbones incurved,
imperforate.--_Obs._ Dalman remarks upon his genus Gypidia, that it is
most probably identical with PENTAMERUS, Sow. but rejects the name for
two reasons; 1st. That it has already been applied to a class of
insects; 2nd. He disputes the fact of the shell being quinquelocular,
i.e. not counting the triangular foramen in the hinge of the larger
valve as one of the divisions. Fig. 212, 213.
PENTELASMIS. Leach. ([Greek: pente], _pente_, five; [Greek: elasma],
_elasma_, plate.) _Order._ Pedunculated Cirripedes, Lam.--_Descr._
Compressed, conical, composed of five valves; lower lateral pair
sub-trigonal; upper lateral pair elongated, sub-quadrate; dorsal valve
arcuate, peduncle elongated, smooth. Found on floating wood in the
sea.--_Obs._ This genus is known from all others of the order by the
number of valves. Pentelasmis is the genus Anatifera of Lamarck. Lepas
anatifer, Linn. Fossil species of this marine genus are found in the
Calcaire-grossièr of Paris, and in other similar beds. Fig. 34, P.
lævis.
PENULTIMATE WHORL. The last whorl but one.
PERA. Leach. A genus composed of CYCLAS amnica, and other similar
species.
PERDIX. Montf. DOLIUM _Perdix_, Auct.
PERFORATED. (_Perforatus._) Bored through, as the apex of Fissurella,
fig. 245, and Dentalium, fig. 2.
PERFORATION. (_Perforo_, to bore, or pierce.) A round opening, having
the appearance of being bored, as in Haliotis, fig. 338. Sometimes the
term is applied to an umbilicus which penetrates a shell through the
axis to the apex, as Eulima splendidula, fig. 348.
PERIBOLUS. Brug. A genus founded upon young specimens of CYPRÆA, with
their outer lips not formed.
PERIOSTRACUM. A name used by Mr. Gray to signify the substance which
covers the outer surface of many shells, called the _Epidermis_ by most
conchological writers. "Drap Marin" is the name given to this substance
by French Naturalists.
PERIPLOMA. Schum. _Fam._ Myariæ. A genus thus described: "Shell very
thin with the left valve more ventricose than the right; hinge
toothless, ligament double, the external portion thin, the internal
part thick, placed upon prominent, sometimes spoon-shaped hinge laminæ,
and supported by a transverse bone; muscular impressions two, distant,
palleal impression sinuated posteriorly." _Ex._ P. inæquivalvis. fig.
72. _Genus_, Osteodesma, Deshayes.
PERISTOMATA. Lam. A family belonging to the first section of the order
Trachelipoda, containing the following genera:--
1. AMPULLARIA. Globose or discoidal; operculum concentric;
including _Pachystoma_, _Lanistes_, _Ceratodes_. Fig. 318 to 320.
2. PALUDINA. Oval; operculum concentric. Fig. 321.
3. VALVATA. Globose; operculum spiral. Fig. 322.
PERISTOME. The edge of the aperture, including the inner and outer
lips.
PERITREME. A term used to express the whole circumference of the
aperture of a spiral shell. It is said to be notched or entire, simple,
reflected, round or oval, &c.
PERLAMATER. Schum. (_Mother of Pearl._) MELEAGRINA Margaritifera, Lam.
The pearl oyster.
PERNA. Auct. ("Pernæ concharum generis," Plin.) _Fam._ Malleacea,
Lam.--_Descr._ Sub-equivalve, irregular, compressed, foliaceous; hinge
straight, linear, composed of a series of transverse, parallel grooves,
containing the cartilage and intermediate spaces bearing the ligament;
anterior margin with a sinus for the passage of a byssus; posterior
ventral margin oblique, attenuated. _Obs._ This genus is known from
Crenatula by the straightness, number and regularity of the grooves in
the hinge and the sinus, for the passage of the byssus. Fig. 166, P.
Ephippium. Mostly tropical.
PERSICULA. Schum. A genus formed of MARGINELLA _Persicula_, Auct. and
other species having the spire concealed. Fig. 438.
PERSONA. Montf. (_Mask_). A genus composed of TRITON _Anus_, Auct. and
similar species. Fig. 401.
PETRICOLA. Lam. (_Petrus_, a stone; _cola_, an inhabitant.) _Fam._
Lithophagidæ, Lam.--_Descr._ Equivalve, inequilateral, transversely
ovate or oblong, rather irregular, anterior side rounded; posterior
side more or less attenuated, slightly gaping; hinge with two cardinal
teeth in each valve; muscular impressions two in each valve; palleal
impression entire; ligament external.--_Obs._ The Petricolæ are found
in holes made by the animals in rocks, madrepores, &c. They may be
known from Saxicava by the regularity of their form and the teeth on
the hinge. Fig. 91, 92.
PETRIFIED FINGERS, CANDLES, SPECTRE CANDLES, &c. are vulgar terms by
which fossils of the genus Belemnites were formerly known.
PHAKELLOPLEURA. Guild. A genus composed of those species of CHITON,
Auct. which have bunches of hairs or hyaline bristles on each side of
each valve on the margin. The Chiton fascicularis, found on our own
coasts, is a well known example. Fig. 506.
PHARAMUS. Montf. LENTICULINA, Bl. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
PHARETRIUM. König. ([Greek: pharetreôn], _pharetrion_, a
quiver.)--_Descr._ A testaceous body composed of two conical sheaths,
one within the other, perforated at the apex, and joined together near
the oral margin. P. fragile, fig. 3. In describing this genus, which
appears to be the same as ENTALIS of Defrance, Mr. König expresses the
supposition that it may probably belong to the class Pteropoda.
PHASIANELLA. Auct. (_Phasianus_, a pheasant.) _Fam._ Turbinacea, Lam.
Ellipsostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Smooth, oval, variegated; aperture
entire, oval; outer-lip thin; inner-lip thin, spread over a portion of
the body whorl; columella smooth, rather thickened towards the base;
operculum horny, spiral within; testaceous, incrassated without.
Britain, Mediterranean, &c.; the fine large species are Australian.
Some fossil species are found in the tertiary beds.--_Obs._ The shells
composing this genus are richly marked with lines and waves of various
and delicate colours, and if the genus be restricted to those species
which are smooth, and which have a thick shelly operculum, we may
regard it as well defined; but there are some spirally-grooved species
of TURBO, Linn. which, from their oval shape, have been considered as
belonging to this genus. Such species should not, in our opinion, be
retained in this genus; they belong to Littorina. P. variegata, fig.
367.
PHITIA. Gray. CARYCHIUM, Müller.
PHOLADARIA. Lam. A family of the order Conchifera Dimyaria, Lam. The
animals contained in this family live in cavities bored by themselves
in rocks, wood, &c. They are cylindrical in form. Lamarck here places
PHOLAS and GASTROCHÆNA, the last of which belongs more properly to the
family of Tubicolaria, where we have enumerated it. Pholas has been
divided into _Pholas_, fig. 55, _Martesia_, which has the valves nearly
closed; and Pholadidæa, fig. 56, which has the cup-shaped extension.
The genus Pholadomya, fig. 67, has been added, although of doubtful
character. The genus Galeomma, fig. 58, 59, has also been recently
added.
PHOLADIDÆA. Leach. PHOLAS papyracea, Auct. Remarkable for the
cup-shaped process at the posterior extremity. Fig. 56.
PHOLADOMYA. Sow. (_Pholas_ and _Mya_.) _Fam._ Pholadaria,
Lam.--_Descr._ Thin, rather hyaline, equivalve, inequilateral,
ventricose, posteriorly gaping, elongated, anteriorly short, rounding;
ventral margin rather gaping; hinge with an elongated pit, and lateral
plate in each valve; ligament external, short, muscular impressions two
in each valve, rather indistinct; palleal impression with a large
sinus.--_Obs._ The only recent species of this genus is from the island
of Tortola. Several fossil species occur in rocks of the Oolitic
series. Fig. 57, P. candida.
PHOLAS. Auct. ([Greek: PHôleô], _pholeo_, to lie hid in a cavity.)
_Fam._ Pholadaria, Lam. ADESMACEA, Bl.--_Descr._ Transverse, oblong,
equivalve, inequilateral, imbricated, gaping on both sides, the
anterior hiatus being generally the largest, although sometimes nearly
closed, with the dorsal margin surmounted with one or more laminar
accessary valves; hinge callous, reflected, with a long curved tooth
protruding from beneath the umbones in each valve.--_Obs._ This genus
of marine shells, dwelling in holes formed in rocks, wood, &c. is
easily distinguished from any other nearly allied genus by the curved,
prominent, rib-like teeth. Fig. 55, P. Dactylus; 56. P. papyracea.
PHOLEOBIUS. Leach. Part of the genus SAXICAVA, Auct.
PHONEMUS. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
PHORUS. Montf. TROCHUS agglutinans, Auct. Remarkable for the adhesion
of little pebbles, dead shells, &c. to the outer edge of the whorls,
which are taken up in the course of the growth of the shell. From this
circumstance they are called "Collectors, Carriers, &c." Fig. 360.
Recent species are brought from the East and West Indies; fossil
species are found in the Tertiary beds.
PHOS. Montf. _Fam._ Purpurifera? Lam.--_Descr._ Turrited, thick,
cancellated, varicose; spire pointed, generally longer than the
aperture; aperture rounded or oval; outer lip having internal ridges,
with a sinus near the anterior termination; columella with an oblique
fold; canal short, forming externally a raised varix.--_Obs._ The
raised external surface of the canal, brings this genus near to
Buccinum, while, in general appearance, most of the species more nearly
resemble Murex. They have, however, no true varices on the whorls, but
merely raised bars. Fig. 416, P. senticosus.
PHYLLIDIANA. Lam. A family belonging to the first section of the order
Gasteropoda, Lam. The genera belonging to this family may be
distinguished as follows:
1. CHITON. Composed of eight valves; valves contingent. Fig. 227.
2. CHITONELLUS. The same, with the valves distant. Fig. 228.
3. PATELLA. Conical, symmetrical. Fig. 229, 230.
4. PATELLOIDA. Differing from Patella in the animal. Fig. 231.
5. SIPHONARIA. With a siphon on one side. Fig. 231*.
6. SCUTELLA. Siphon close to the side of the head. Fig. 510, 511.
PHYLLONOTUS. Sw. A sub-genus of Murex, thus described: "Canal moderate;
varices foliated, laciniated, compressed, or resembling leaves;
inflatus. Mart. 102. fig. 980, eurystoma. Zool. Ill. ii. 100.
imperialis. Ib. pl. 109." Sw. p. 296.
PHYSA. Drap. A genus formed for reversed species of Limnæa, Auct. Fig.
310, P. castanea.
PHYSETER. Humph. SOLARIUM, Lam.
PILEOLUS. Cookson. (_A little cap._) _Fam._ Neritacea, Lam.--_Descr._
Patelliform, with the apex sub-central, straight. In the lower disc, or
under surface, the centre of which is rather raised or cushion-shaped,
is placed the lateral, narrow, semilunar aperture, with the outer lip
marginated and the inner lip crenulated.--_Obs._ This interesting genus
is known only in a fossil state. Two species are found in the upper
layer of Oolite, above the Bradford clay. The spire, although internal,
connects this genus in some degree with Neritina. Still there is no
danger of confounding them. Fig. 332, P. plicatus.
PILEOPSIS. Lam. CAPULUS, Montf.
PILLAR. The usual English name for the column which forms the axis of
spiral shells, around which the whorls revolve. See COLUMELLA.
PINNA. Auct. (_The fin of a fish._) _Fam._ Mytilacea, Lam.--_Descr._
Equivalve, inequilateral, oblique, wedge-shaped, thin, horny; umbones
terminal; hinge rectilinear, without teeth; anterior margin sinuated,
to admit the passage of a byssus; posterior margin truncated, gaping;
muscular impressions two in each valve; posterior large, sub-central;
anterior small, terminal, sometimes double.--_Obs._ The beautiful large
shells of which this genus is composed, are possessed of a large,
flowing, silky byssus, of which gloves and hose have been manufactured.
They have received their name from their resemblance to the pectoral
fins of some fishes. Some species attain very large dimensions, and
measure two feet in length. A very improbable story is told with regard
to animals of this genus, namely that a certain small species of crab
is in the habit of taking refuge from its enemies in the shell of the
Pinna, into which it is received with great hospitality and kindness by
the "_blind slug_," which inhabits it. In return for which kindness, he
occasionally goes abroad to procure food for both. On his return he
knocks at the shell, which is opened to receive him, and they share the
supplies together in convivial security! Some species are smooth,
although the greater number are imbricated or crisped outside. P.
saccata, fig. 162.
PINNATED. (From _Pinna_, a fin.) When a part of a shell is spread out
and smooth, as in Rostellaria columbaria, fig. 403, it is said to be
_alated_, or winged, but when the part which is spread is radiated or
ribbed, like the fin of a fish, it is _pinnated_, as in Murex pinnatus,
and Murex tripterus. (Conch. Illustr.)
PIRENA. Lam. A genus of fresh-water shells, rejected by De Ferussac and
other authors, who place Lamarck's two first species with Melanopsis,
and his two last with Melania. Fig. 316, P. terebralis.
PISIDIUM. Leach. A genus of river shells separated from Cyclas
principally on account of a difference in the animal. The species of
Pisidium, however, are less equilateral than the Cyclades, and the
posterior or ligamentary side of the latter is the longer, while that
of the former is the shorter. Fig. 112.
PISIFORM. (_Pisum_, a pea; _forma_, shape.) Shaped like a pea or small
globular body.
PISUM. Megerle. (_A pea._) PISIDIUM, Leach.
PITHOHELIX. Sw. A sub-genus of "Geotrochus," Sw. Sw. p. 332.
PITONELLUS. Montf. ROTELLA, Auct.
PLACENTA. Schum. PLACUNA, Auct.
PLACENTULA. Schum. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
PLACUNA. Brug. ([Greek: plakous], _placos_, a cake.) _Fam._ Ostracea,
Lam. and Bl.--_Descr._ Compressed, thin, equivalve, nearly equilateral,
planorbicular, fibrous, foliaceous; hinge flat, with two diverging ribs
in one valve, and two corresponding grooves in the other, containing
the cartilage; muscular impressions one, large, circular, central, and
one or two smaller in each valve.--_Obs._ The two best known species of
this well defined genus are the P. Placenta, commonly called the
Chinese Window Shell, and the P. Sella, called the Saddle Oyster, from
the anterior margin being turned up so as to resemble a saddle. The
genus may be known from all others by the diverging costa on the hinge.
Placunanomia is the only genus resembling it in this respect, but this
is easily distinguished by a perforation through the shell. Fig. 184,
P. Placuna. These shells are used in China to glaze windows.
PLACUNANOMIA. (Sw. _Placuna_ and _Anomia_.) _Fam._ Ostracea, Lam. and
Bl.--_Descr._ Thin, foliaceous, compressed, sub-equivalve,
sub-equilateral, irregular, flat near the umbones, plicated towards the
margins, attached by a bony substance passing through a fissure in the
lower valve; hinge flat, with two diverging ribs in one valve,
corresponding with two diverging grooves, containing the cartilage, in
the other; muscular impressions one in each valve, central,
sub-orbicular.--_Obs._ The specimens from which Mr. Broderip described
this singular genus, were brought by Mr. Cuming from the gulf of Dulce
in Costa Rico. Another species is from one of the Philippine Islands.
They partake of the characters of several genera, having the hinge of
Placuna, and being attached by a process passing through the lower
valve, like Anomia. P. Cumingii, fig. 189.
PLAGIOSTOMA. Sow. Min. Con. ([Greek: plagios], _plagios_, oblique;
[Greek: stoma], _stoma_, mouth.) _Fam._ Pectenides, Lam.
Palliobranchiata, Bl.--_Descr._ Sub-equivalve, inequilateral, oblique,
auriculated on each side of the umbones, radiately striated; hinge
straight in one valve, with a triangular notch in the other.--_Obs._
This genus, one species of which is spinous, and another smooth, is
only known in a fossil state. It is found in the Lias and chalk. Fig.
176, P. spinosum.
PLAIT or FOLD. A term applied to the prominences on the columellar lip
of some univalve shells, particularly in the sub-family of Volutidæ.
_Ex._ Voluta, fig. 433; Cymba, 434; and Melo, fig. 435.
PLANARIA. Brown. A minute fossil resembling Planorbis in appearance,
but differing in being a marine shell, and having a reflected outer
lip. P. nitens, fig. 312, from Lea's Contributions to Geology.
PLANAXIS. Lam. (_Plana_, flat; and _axis_.) _Fam._ Turbinacea, Lam.
Entomostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Sub-ovate, pyramidal, solid; spire
measuring ½ or 1/3 of the axis, consisting of few whorls; columella
contiguous to the axis, flat, truncated, and separated from the outer
lip by a short canal; outer lip thickened and denticulated within;
operculum horny, thin, with a terminal nucleus.--_Obs._ This is a genus
of small marine shells found in the West Indies, &c. Fig. 365, P.
sulcata.
PLANE. (_Planus._) Flat, planed, as the columellar lip of Purpura, fig.
414.
PLANORBICULAR, (_Planus_, flat; _orbis_, an orb.) Flat and circular, as
Ammonites, fig. 478.
PLANORBIS. Müll. (_Planus_, flat; _orbis_, an orb.) _Fam._ Lymnacea,
Lam. and Bl.--_Descr._ Thin, horny, convolute, planorbicular, nearly
symmetrical; spire compressed, concave, consisting of numerous
gradually increasing whorls, which are visible on both sides; aperture
transversely oval, or nearly round; peritreme entire; outer lip thin;
inner lip distinct, spread over a part of the body whorl.--_Obs._ This
is a genus of shells abounding in all climates in ditches and stagnant
pools, not liable to be confounded with any other, excepting the
discoidal species of Ampullaria, which may be distinguished by the
aperture being broadest in the opposite direction. It is further to be
remarked that the discoidal Ampullariæ are dextral shells, and the
Planorbes are sinistral or reversed; and although the latter are
sometimes so flat and orbicular that it is difficult to know which is
the spiral side, it may nevertheless always be ascertained by a careful
examination. Fossil species are found in the freshwater strata of the
Isle of Wight, and the neighbourhood of Paris. Fig. 311, P. corneus.
PLANORBULINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
PLANULACEA. Bl. The second family of Cellulacea, Bl. The microscopic
Foraminifera contained in this family are described as very much
depressed, not spiral, chambered, cellular, and having the septa
indicated by grooves on the external surface of the shell, which
increase in length from the apex to the base: some of the small
cellular cavities are to be seen on the margins. This family contains
the genera Renulina and Peneroplis.
PLANULARIA. Defr. PENEROPLIS, Montf. A genus of microscopic
Foraminifera.
PLANULINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
PLANULITES. Lam. DISCORBITES of the same author. A genus of microscopic
Foraminifera.
PLATIRIS. Lea. ([Greek: platus], _platus_, wide; [Greek: iris],
_iris_.) A genus including several species of Nayades, referred to
IRIDINA, Lam. The genus Platiris is divided into two sub-genera.
Iridina, species which have crenulated margins; I. Ovata, I. exotica,
Spatha, Lea; those with smooth or very slightly crenulated hinges, S.
rubeus, S. Solenoides, Mycetopus, D'Orb. Fig. 151.
PLATYLEPAS. ([Greek: platus], _platus_, wide; [Greek: lepas], _lepas_,
rock.) _Order._ Sessile Cirripedes, Lam. _Fam._ Balanidea,
Bl.--_Descr._ Conical, depressed, consisting of six valves, each
divided internally by an angular plate jutting from the centre (like
the buttress of a wall); operculum consisting of four valves in
pairs.--_Obs._ This genus differs from Balanus, Coronula, &c. in the
internal structure of the valves. De Blainville's description of
Chthalamus partly agrees with this. Fig. 19.
PLECTOPHORUS. Fer. ([Greek: plêktron], _plectron_, spur; [Greek:
phoreô], _phoreo_, to carry.) A genus consisting of small testaceous
appendages fixed on the posterior extremity of a species of slug. P.
corninus, fig. 260.
PLEIODON. Conrad. IRIDINA, Lam. _Fam._ Nayades, Lam.
PLEKOCHEILUS. Guild. AURICULA Caprella, Lam. CARYCHIUM undulatum,
Leach. (CAPRELLA, Nonnull.) This proposed genus is described as
scarcely umbilical, dextral, oval, spiral; with the spire elevated,
obtuse; the two last whorls very large, ventricose; aperture entire,
elongated; columella with a single plait; the plait concave, inflected.
Fig. 522, 523.
PLEUROBRANCHUS. Cuv. ([Greek: Pleura], _pleura_, the side; _Branchiæ_,
gills.) _Fam._ Semiphyllidiana, Lam. Subaplysiacea, Bl.--_Descr._
Internal, thin, haliotoid, slightly convex towards the spiral apex;
aperture entire.--_Obs._ This is a very light shell, delicately
coloured, resembling Aplysia, but differing in the integrity of the
margin. Fig. 232, P. membranaceus.
PLEUROCERUS. Rafinesque. A genus very imperfectly described in the
"Journal de Physique" as "oval, or pyramidal; aperture oblong; outer
lip thin; inner lip truncated at the columella, which is smooth and
tortuous, not umbilicated. Operculum horny or membranaceous." De
Blainville, in giving this description, remarks that he has neither
seen the animal nor the shell of this genus, which he imagines to have
been formed from the "Paludine Coupée de M. Say."
PLEURORYNCHUS. Phillips. ([Greek: Pleura], _pleura_, the side; [Greek:
runchos], _rynchus_, a beak.) A genus founded upon a very singular
species of CARDIUM, distinguished by the short anterior side, and the
elongation of the hinge line into auricular processes, which are
truncated at the extremities. C. Hibernicum from the Black Rock near
Dublin, which is vulgarly called Asses-hoof, and C. elongatum (Sow.
Min. Con. vol. I. 82.), form part of this genus.
PLEUROTOMA. Lam. _Fam._ Canalifera, Lam. Siphonostomata, Bl.--_Descr._
Fusiform, thick, in general ribbed or striated transversely; aperture
oval, terminating anteriorly in an elongated canal; outer lip thin,
with a fissure near its spiral extremity; columella smooth, nearly
straight. Found principally in tropical climates.--_Obs._ This genus,
which nearly resembles Fusus in other respects, may be known by the
notch in the outer lip. The species differ in the length of the canal.
Swainson has designated this genus a family, thus divided into genera:
Brachytoma, in the description of which he says that the spire and
aperture are of equal length, including the species strombiformis:
Pleurotoma, in which the channel is so much lengthened, as to be little
shorter than the spire: Clavatula, having the long narrow slit of
Pleurotoma, but with a very short canal: Clavicantha, having the canal
equally short, but the sinus or notch, instead of being linear and
long, is short and wide; the surface is rough, and the whorls either
coronated with prickles, or with compressed nodules resembling spines:
Tomella, which has the spire and canal fusiform, but the spire of very
few whorls, and the inner lip considerably thickened within where it
joins the outer lip. Fig. 379, 389, P. marmorata; 381, P.
Strombiformis, (Clavatula, Sw.)
PLEUROTOMARIA. Defr. _Fam._ Turbinacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Turbinated,
spiral; aperture sub-quadrate, with rounded angles; outer lip with a
deep slit near its union with the spire.--_Obs._ This genus, which is
only known in a fossil state, abounds in inferior Oolite, Oxford clay,
and casts are found in a limestone bed in Norway. The Scissurellæ
differ in being very minute shells, and are not so trochiform as the
species of Pleurotomaria, P. reticulata, fig. 341.
PLICACEA. Lam. A family of the order Trachelipoda, Lam. containing the
following genera:
1. PYRAMIDELLA. Pyramidal, with numerous whorls. Fig. 342.
2. TORNATELLA. Cylindrical, with few whorls. Fig. 343, 344.
3. RINGICULA. Margin reflected. Fig. 540, 541.
PLICADOMUS. Sw. A sub-genus of Pupa, thus described: "spire moderate,
regular and thick, but gradually conic; the tip obtuse; aperture
perpendicular; inner lip wanting; outer lip semicircular; the margin
dilated and reflected. P. sulcata, Chem. 135, f. 1231, 1232." Sw. p.
332.
PLICATED. (_Plicatus_, folded.) Applied to spiral plaits on the
columella of some shells. _Ex._ Voluta, fig. 433. Also to the angular
bendings in the margins of some bivalve shells. _Ex._ Dendostrea, fig.
181.
PLICATULA. Lam. (_Plicatus_, folded.) _Fam._ Pectenides, Lam.
Sub-ostracea, Bl.--_Descr._ Irregular, sub-equivalve, sub-equilateral,
attached by a small part of the surface of one valve, strongly
plicated; umbones separated by a small, external ligamentary area;
hinge with two cardinal teeth in each valve, two approximate in one
valve, received between two distant in the other; cartilage placed
between the cardinal teeth; muscular impressions one in each
valve.--_Obs._ The cardinal teeth resembling those of Spondylus,
distinguish this genus from others of the Lamarckian family Pectenides.
Very few species are yet known, they are brought from the East and West
Indies and the Philippine Islands. Fossil species are found in several
of the supra-cretaceous beds. Fig. 178, P. gibbosa.
PNEUMOBRANCHIA. Lam. The second section of the order Gasteropoda, Lam.
containing the family Limacinea, fig. 256 to 263.
PODOPSIS. Lam. This genus appears to have been described from specimens
of a species of Spondylus, with the triangular disc broken out, so as
to present a similarly shaped foramen, which was supposed to afford a
passage for a large byssus.
POLINICES. Montf. A genus composed of NATICA Mammilla, and other
similar species, with mammillated spires, and the umbilicus filled with
enamel. Fig. 327.
POLLIA. Gray. TRITONIDEA, Sw. The name given by Gray was pre-occupied
by a genus of Lepidopterous Insects.
POLLICIPES. Leach. (_Pollex_, a thumb's breadth; _pes_, a foot.)
_Order._ Pedunculated Cirripedes, Lam.--_Descr._ Conical, compressed,
consisting of numerous valves, mostly in pairs, three or four pairs
forming the principal part of the shell, and surrounded at the base by
two or three rows of smaller valves, supported on a scaly, short
pedicle.--_Obs._ This description will be found to exclude Scalpellum,
and Smilium, the valves of which are more equal. The P. Mitellus, Auct.
(fig. 37*), has been separated as a genus under the name of Mitellus by
some authors, and it is certainly very different from P. polymerus,
fig. 37, and P. cornucopia.
POLLONTES. Montf. MILIOLA, Bl. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
POLYBRANCHIATA. Bl. ([Greek: Polus], _polus_, many; _branchiæ_, gills.)
The fifth family of the order Lamellibranchiata, Bl. containing the
genera Arca, Pectunculus and Nucula, which have a series of small teeth
on the hinge.
POLYDONTES. Montf. ([Greek: Polus], _polus_, many; [Greek: odos],
_odos_, tooth.) A species of Helix, shaped like CAROCOLLA, and having a
number of teeth in the aperture.
POLYGONAL. Many-sided.
POLYGONUM. Schum. ([Greek: Polus], _polus_, many; [Greek: gônia],
_gonia_, an angle.) A genus composed of species of TURBINELLA, Auct.
which have large continuous costæ, so as to present the appearance of
many-sided shells. T. polygonus, fig. 383. This generic name may be
used to include all those species of Turbinella, Auct. which have very
small folds on the columella.
POLYGYRA. Say. A genus of Heliciform shells, characterized by the large
number of close set whorls, constituting the spire. _Ex._ P.
Septemvolvus, fig. 275, 276.
POLYLEPAS. Bl. ([Greek: Polus], _polus_, many; [Greek: lepas], _lepas_,
rock.) SCALPELLUM, Auct.
POLYMORPHINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
POLYPHEMUS. Montf. A genus composed of species of ACHATINA, Auct. which
have elongated apertures, short spires, and an undulation in the outer
lip. P. Glans, fig. 288.
POLYPLAXIPHORA. Bl. The second class of the sub-type Malentozoa, Bl.
containing the genus Chiton.
POLYSTOMELLA. Lam. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
POLYTHALAMACEA. Bl. ([Greek: Polus], _polus_, many; [Greek: THalamos],
_thalamos_, chambers.) The third order of Cephalophora, Bl. the shells
of which are described as straight, more or less symmetrically
convolute, divided into several chambers. The septa are sometimes, but
not always, pierced by one or more siphons. This order is divided into
the families, Orthocerata, Lituacea, Cristacea, Ammonacea, Nautilacea,
Turbinacea, Turriculacea, all of which contain genera of chambered
shells. De Blainville arranges these families according to the degree
in which the spires revolve. The first being straight, as the
Orthocerata, and the last being so closely coiled up, that the last
whorl covers the rest, as in the Nautilacea.
POLYTHALAMIA. Lam. The first division of the order Cephalopoda, Lam.
containing the following families of chambered shells, viz.
Orthocerata, Lituacea, Cristacea, Sphærulacea, Radiolata, Nautilacea,
Ammonacea. Fig. 463 to 484.
POLYTROPA. Sw. A genus of "Scolyminæ," Sw. thus described:
"Bucciniform; but the base narrow, and ending in a straight and
contracted, but rather short, channel; spire longer, or as long as the
aperture; exterior folliculated, or tuberculated; inner lip flattened,
as in _Purpura_; basal notch small, oblique; no internal channel;
crispata. En. Méth. 419, f. 2. Chem. 187, f. 1802. Capilla, Pennant,
pl. 72, f. 89, imbricata. Mart. 122. f. 1124. ? rugosa. Chem. f.
1473-4." Sw. p. 305.
POLYXENES. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
POMATIA. Gesner. (Gray, Syn. B. M. p. 133.) A genus of the family of
"Cyclostomidæ," described as having "an elongated shell with reflexed
lips, and a horny spiral operculum." Also a sub-genus of Snails,
containing HELIX pomatia, Auct. (Gray's Turton, p. 135.)
PORNUS. Humph. AMPULLARIA, Lam.
PORCELLANA. Adanson. MARGINELLA, Auct.
PORODRAGUS. Montf. A genus composed of species of Belemnites, placed by
De Blainville in the section characterized as swelled near the apex,
and straightened towards the base.
POSIDONIA. Brong. A genus formed on the cast of a bivalve shell, common
on schists from Dillemberg.
POSTERIOR. (_After_, _behind_.) The posterior or hinder part of a
bivalve shell, is that in which the siphonal tube of the animal is
placed. It is known in the shell, by the direction of the curve in the
umbones, which is from the posterior towards the anterior; also by the
ligament, which is always placed on the posterior part of the hinge,
when it exists only on one side of the umbones; and by the sinus (when
there is one) in the palleal impression, which is always near the
posterior muscular impression. In some shells, however, it is very
difficult for a learner to trace these marks; such bivalves, for
instance, as have the ligament spread out on both sides of the umbones;
such as are nearly symmetrical, and have the umbones consequently
straight, and a single muscular impression near the centre of the
valve. The Brachiopodous bivalves have a different position, with
relation to the animal, from the other bivalves, so that the hinge line
is the posterior extremity, and the part where the valves open, is the
anterior. The posterior extremity of the aperture of a spiral univalve
shell, is that nearest to the spire. In patelliform shells the anterior
and posterior extremities are distinguished by the muscular impression,
which is annular, enclosing a central disc in the inner surface of the
shell, excepting where it is interrupted by the place where the head of
the animal lies, which of course is anterior. The posterior is marked
_p._ in fig. 119, and 387. See ANTERIOR.
POSTERO-BASAL MARGIN of a bivalve shell is the posterior side of the
margin opposite the hinge.
POSTERO-DORSAL MARGIN is the posterior side of the hinge.
POTAMIS or POTAMIDES. Brong. A genus of fresh-water shells resembling
Cerithium in the characters of the aperture, but which may be known
from that genus by the thick, horny epidermis with which they are
coated. P. muricata, fig. 377. (Cerithium, Sow.) We think that these
shells should be placed near MELANIA.
POTAMOMYA. A genus of shells resembling Corbula, in every respect
except that of being inhabitants of fresh-water. Fig. 498, 499,
represents one of these fresh-water Corbulæ.
POTAMOPHILA. Sow. ([Greek: Potamis], _potamis_, river; [Greek:
philios], _philios_, choice.) "Conques fluviatiles," Lam.--_Descr._
Thick, equivalve, inequilateral, trigonal, covered with a greenish
brown, smooth, horny epidermis; hinge thickened, broad, with one
central, notched cardinal tooth in one valve, and two in the other,
with indistinct lateral teeth; ligament large, supported on prominent
fulcra; muscular impressions two in each valve, sub-orbicular.--_Obs._
The name given to this shell refers to its place of abode, being found
in rivers. It is the Venus sub-viridis of some authors, although being
a fresh-water shell, and having an incrassated hinge, and a smooth,
thick epidermis, it is most distinct from that genus. It is described
by Bowdich under the name Megadesma, on account of its large ligament,
and by Lamarck under that of Galathæa, a name previously used by him
for a genus of Crustacea. P. radiata, fig. 115. Megadesma appears to be
the preferable name, since it has the right of priority over
Potamophila. It is found in Africa.
PRIAMUS. A genus composed of ACHATINA Priamus, Lam. BUCCINUM
Stercus--Pulicum, Chemn. Conch. 9. t. 120. f. 1026-7. This shell is
ascertained to belong to a marine mollusc, having a horny operculum,
and therefore is justly considered to form a distinct genus, allied to
the Buccina and Struthiolariæ. Fig. 545.
PRISODON. Schum. HYRIA, &c. Auct. Fig. 144.
PRODUCED. (_Productus_, prominent.) A term applied to the spire of
univalve shells, or to any other prominent portion.
PRODUCTA. Sow. (_Productus_, produced.) _Fam._ Brachiopoda,
Lam.--_Descr._ Equilateral, inequivalve, thick, striated; one valve
generally convex, with the margin inflected, produced; the other valve
flat, or slightly convex, with the margin reflected; hinge rectilinear,
transverse.--_Obs._ The peculiarity of this genus, from which it
derives its name, is the manner in which the anterior margins of the
valves are drawn out and overwrap each other. The genus is only known
in a fossil state. Species occur in Mountain Limestone, and Transition
Limestone of older date. P. depressa, fig. 206.
PROSERPINA. Gray? Fig. 274, represents a small shell belonging to the
Helix tribe, to which it is believed, Mr. Gray has applied the name
Proserpina nitida. We do not know how the genus is defined.
PROTO. Defr. A fossil shell resembling TURRITELLA, but having a spiral
band reaching to the centre of each valve. P. terebralis, Bl.
PSAMMOBIA. Lam. _Fam._ Nymphacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Transverse, oblong,
slightly gaping at both ends; hinge with two cardinal teeth in one
valve, one in the other; ligament supported upon a prominent fulcrum;
muscular impressions two in each valve, sub-orbicular, distant; palleal
impression with a large sinus; epidermis thin.--_Obs._ The genus thus
described includes PSAMMOTÆA of Lamarck, which, according to him, only
differs in the number of teeth, and which he says are but "Psammobies
dégenerées." The difference appears to be accidental. This genus
differs from Tellina in not having a posterior fold in the margin. Fig.
100. The species are found in temperate and tropical climates.
PSAMMOCOLA. Bl. ([Greek: psammos], _psammos_, sand; _cola_, an
inhabitant.) A name given by De Blainville to shells of the genus
PSAMMOBIA, including PSAMMOTÆA of Lamarck.
PSAMMOTÆA. See Lam. PSAMMOBIA.
PSEUDOLIVA. Sw. A genus of "Eburninæ," Sw. thus described: "Shell
thick, oval, oliviform, ventricose; spire very short, acute; base with
two parallel grooves, one of which forms a notch at the base of the
outer lip; suture slightly channelled; inner lip very thick, and
turning inwards; aperture with an internal canal. Connects the
TURBINELLIDÆ with the VOLUTIDÆ. P. plumbea, Chem. 188. f. 1806, 1807."
Sw. p. 306.
PSILOSTOMATA. Bl. The third family of Aporobranchiata, Bl. containing
no genera of shells.
PTEROCERAS. Auct. ([Greek: Pteron], _pteron_, a wing; [Greek: keras],
_ceras_, horn.) _Fam._ Ailées, Lam.--_Descr._ Turrited, oval,
ventricose, thick, tuberculated; spire short; aperture oval,
terminating in a lengthened canal at both extremities; outer lip
thickened, expanded, produced into horn-shaped, hollow, thickened
spires, with an anterior sinus apart from the canal.--_Obs._ This
genus, containing the shells commonly called Devil's Claws, Gouty
Scorpions, Spiders, &c. is distinguished from Strombus by the
digitations of the outer lip. No fossil species are known. Fig. 405, P.
aurantiaca.
PTEROCYCLOS. Benson. Syn. B. M. p. 133. A genus formed of species of
Cyclostoma, Auct. which have "a groove or hole at the hinder part of
the mouth."
PTEROPODA. Lam. ([Greek: Pteron], _pteron_, a wing; [Greek: pous],
_pous_, a foot.) The first order of the class Mollusca, Lam. consisting
of molluscs whose organs of locomotion consist of a pair of wing-shaped
fins. This order contains the genera Hyalæa, Clio, Cleodora,
Spiratella, Cymbulia, and Pneumoderma. To which may be added other
genera enumerated in explanation of figures 220 to 226. They may be
thus distinguished.
1. ATLANTA. Shaped like Nautilus, symmetrical. Fig. 220.
2. SPIRATELLA. Spiral, not symmetrical. Fig. 224.
3. CRESEIS. Straight, thorn-shaped. Fig. 222.
4. VAGINULA. Straight, widened in the centre; apex pointed. Fig.
225.
5. CUVIERIA. The same; apex blunt. Fig. 223.
6. CLEODORA. Aperture with three spines; apex recurved. Fig. 221.
7. HYALÆA. Vaulted, open extremity, three-cornered; apex
tridentate. Fig. 226.
PTEROPODA. Bl. The second family of Nucleobranchiata, Bl. the shells of
which are described as symmetrical, extremely thin, transparent,
longitudinally enrolled, either forwards or backwards. The animals are
remarkable for a pair of broad, flat, natatory organs or membranaceous
fins, from which the family derives its name. It contains, in the
system of De Blainville, the genera Atlanta, Spiratella, and Argonauta,
to which may probably be added PHARETRIUM, König; ENTALIS, Defrance.
PULLASTRA. Sow. _Fam._ Conques Marines, Lam.--_Descr._ Equivalve, ovate
or oblong, transverse, inequilateral; hinge with three diverging
cardinal teeth in each valve, notched at the terminations; muscular
impressions two in each valve; palleal impression having a large sinus;
ligament external, partly hidden by the dorsal margin.--_Obs._ This
genus includes the Venerirupes of Lamarck, and several species of his
Veneres, they are found in the sand on the shores of temperate and
tropical climates. Fig. 120, P. textile.
PULMONOBRANCHIATA. Bl. The first order of the first section of
Paracephalophora monoica, containing the families Limnacea,
Auriculacea, and Limacinea.
PULVINITES. Defr. (_Pulvinus_, a cushion.) _Fam._ Malleacea,
Lam.--_Descr._ Sub-equivalve, inequilateral, compressed, thin, slightly
gaping posteriorly; one valve flat, the other rather concave; hinge
linear, short, divided into perpendicular grooves; muscular impressions
two, one sub-central, the other above it, nearer the hinge.--_Obs._
This fossil shell is imperfectly known, and it is difficult to give a
sufficient reason for separating it from Perna. It comes from the
Baculite limestone of Normandy. Fig. 170, P. Adansonii.
PUNCTATED. (_Punctatus_, spotted or dotted.) For example, see Conus
Nussatella. Fig. 460.
PUNCTICULIS. Sw. A sub-genus of "Coronaxis," Sw. (Conus) described in
Swainson's Malacology, page 311.
PUNCTURELLA. Lowe. CEMORIA, Leach.
PUPA. Auct. _Fam._ Colimacea, Lam.; Limacinea, Bl.--_Descr._
Cylindrical, generally ribbed; spire long, obtuse, composed of numerous
slowly increasing whorls; aperture sub-quadrate, rounded anteriorly,
entire; outer lip thickened; columella plaited.--_Obs._ This genus is
composed of land shells very variable in form, differing from Bulinus
in the numerous slowly increasing whorls of the spire, and in the plicæ
on the columella, and from Clausilia in the want of a clausium.
Britain, Southern Europe, East and West Indies, Mexico, &c. P. Uva.
Fig. 291.
PUPELLA. Sw. A sub-genus of Clausilia. Lardn. Cyclop. Malac. p. 334.
PUPILLA. Leach. A sub-genus of Pupa, P. marginata, Auct. (Gray's
Turton, p. 196.)
PUPINA. Vignard. MOULINSIA, Grateloup. _Fam._ Colimacea, Lam.--_Descr._
Pupiform, sub-cylindrical; last whorl less than the preceding; surface
brilliantly polished; suture of the spire enamelled; aperture circular;
peritreme thickened; a notch at the base of the inner lip; operculum
horny, spiral.--_Obs._ The species upon which this genus was originally
founded, and described in the "Annal des Sciences Naturelles," tome 18,
p. 439, (December 1829,) is a small pupiform shell, having nothing to
distinguish it but the enamelled suture and the notch in the aperture;
characters quite insufficient in themselves for the purpose of generic
distinction; at the same time sufficient to lead M. De Ferussac to the
suspicion of its having an operculum. The next species, described by
Grateloup under the name of Moulinsia Nunezii, (Ann. Soc. Linn. Burd,
Nov. 1840), presents more remarkable characters, having the spire
turned backwards and the penultimate whorl disproportionately large.
Seven additional species have been lately brought to this country from
the Philippine Islands by Mr. Cuming. They will be described by the
author in the Zoological Proceedings for 1841, and an illustrated
monograph of the whole genus is published in the Thesaurus
Conchyliorum, Part I, by the Author. It may be observed that in one of
the new species, the notch in the peritreme almost disappears, leaving
a very slight sinus. Fig. 524, 526, 527, 528.
PURPURA. Auct. ("_The shell-fish from which purple is taken_," Plin.)
_Fam._ Purpurifera, Lam. Entomostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Oval or oblong,
thick; spire for the most part short, sometimes rather longer; external
surface generally sulcated, granulated, tuberculated or muricated;
aperture long, oval, somewhat dilated, emarginated anteriorly; outer
lip crenated, acute; columella flattened; operculum horny, with the
nucleus lateral, thin towards the columella.--_Obs._ True Purpuræ to be
found in the Lamarckian genera Buccinum, Ricinula, and others. They may
be generally distinguished by the flatness of the columellar lip, and
by the short canal or emargination, which is not reflected or raised,
as in Buccinum. The species are very numerous and very variable in
form, inhabiting the seas of temperate and tropical climates. The
animals secrete a purple liquor, which has been used advantageously for
dyeing; the origin of the famous Tyrian dye. Fig. 414, P. persica.
PURPURIFERA. Lam. (_Purpura_, purple; _fero_, to carry.) A family
belonging to the second section of Lamarck's order Trachelipoda, the
shells of which are described as having a very short recurved, or
ascending canal, or else only a notch between the inner and outer lips.
The name Purpurifera has been given to the family because the animals
which it includes, and particularly the genus Purpura, contain the
colouring matter from which the ancients obtained the well known
splendid purple. This family contains the following genera.
1. CASSIS. Outer lip thick, reflected, denticulated, canal turned
suddenly over the back; spire short; including _Cassidea_ and
_Cypræcassis_. Fig. 410 to 412.
2. CASSIDARIA. Canal turned gently upwards. Fig. 407, 408.
3. ONISCIA. Inner lip granulated; canal short. Fig. 409.
4. BUCCINUM. Outer lip thickened not reflected; canal short;
including _Cyllene_ and _Phos._ Fig. 416, 421, 422, 425.
5. NASSA. The same, with a notch or tooth at the extremity of the
columella; including _Cyclops_. Fig. 423, 424.
6. DOLIUM. Swelled, grooved spirally; outer lip not reflected. Fig.
420.
7. PURPURA. Aperture large; columellar lip flat; including
Tritonidea. Fig. 414, 415.
8. MONOCEROS. The same, with a tooth on the outer lip. Fig. 417.
9. CONCHOLEPAS. Patelliform; aperture as large as the shell. Fig.
417.
10. RICINULA. Columellar and outer lips granulated, denticulated,
outer lip digitated; including _Tribulus_. Fig. 413.
11. TRICHOTROPIS. Hairs on the epidermis, along the keels. Fig.
429.
12. TEREBRA. Elongated, with a spiral groove near the suture of the
whorls. Fig. 428.
13. BULLIA. Short; aperture wide; outer lip marginated. Fig. 427.
14. EBURNA. Like Buccinum, but the outer lip not thickened. Fig.
426.
15. HARPA. With varices at regular intervals. Fig. 419.
PUSIA. Sw. A sub-genus of Tiara (Mitra.) (Sw. Malac. p. 320.)
PUSIODON. Sw. A genus of "Lucerninæ," Sw. (Helix) thus described:
"Shell flattened, smooth; the body-whorl large, and much dilated at the
aperture; spire small, flat, of three or four contracted whorls;
aperture very oblique, sinuated, or obsoletely toothed at the base of
the outer lip, which is spreading and sub-reflected; inner lip
obsolete; umbilicus open. Zonaria Chemn. 132. f. 1188. auriculata Zool.
Ill. I. pl. 6." Sw. Malac. p. 330.
PUSIOSTOMA. Sw. A genus of the family "Columbellinæ." Sw. Thus
described: "general form of Columbella, but the outer lip is only
toothed in the middle, where it is greatly thickened; inner lip convex
between the granular teeth; punctata, E. M. 374. f. 4. mendicaria, 375.
f. 10. turturina, 314. f. 2. fulgurans. Lam." Sw. Malac. p. 313.
PUSTULARIA. Sw. A genus of "Cypræinæ," Sw. thus described: "Shell
generally marked by elevated pustules; aperture narrow and linear; the
extremities more or less produced; the teeth continued beyond, and
frequently forming elevated striæ across the lips. P. Cicercula, P.
Globulus." Sw. Malac. p. 324.
PYGMÆA. Humph. COLUMBELLA, Auct.
PYLORIDEA. Bl. The ninth family of the order Lamellibranchiata, Bl. the
shells of which are described as nearly always regular, rarely
otherwise, nearly always equivalve, gaping at both extremities; hinge
incomplete, the teeth becoming gradually obsolete; two distinct
muscular impressions; palleal impression very flexuous posteriorly.
This family is divided into: Section 1. Ligament internal; Pandora,
Thracia, Anatina, Mya, Lutricola. Section 2. Ligament external;
Psammocola, Soletellina, Solen, Sanguinolaria, Solenocurtus, Solenimya,
Panopæa, Glycimeris, Saxicava, Byssomya, Rhomboides, Hiatella,
Gastrochæna, Clavagella, Aspergillum.
PYRAMIDAL. (_Pyramidalis._) Resembling a pyramid in form. _Ex._
Cerithium Telescopium, fig. 378.
PYRAMIDELLA. Lam. (_A little pyramid._) _Fam._ Plicacea, Lam.
AURICULACEA, Bl.--_Descr._ Pyramidal, smooth, polished; spire long,
pointed, composed of numerous whorls; aperture small, modified by the
last whorl, rounded anteriorly; outer lip slightly expanded; columella
tortuous, with several folds. This is a genus of small, polished,
marine shells. Pyramidella Terebellum, fig. 342.
PYRAZUS. Montf. POTAMIS, Brongniart.
PYRELLA. Sw. A genus consisting of Turbinella Spirilla, Auct. and
similar species, having a long channel, a pyriform outline, and one
strong plait at the base of the columella, the apex of the spire is
enlarged. P. Spirillus, fig. 384. (The proper term would be Spirilla.)
PYRIFORM. (_Pyrum_, a pear; _forma_, shape.) Shaped like a pear, i. e.
large and rounding at one end, and gradually tapering at the other.
_Ex._ Pyrula, fig. 390.
PYRGO. Defr. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
PYRGOMA. Auct. ([Greek: Purgos], _pyrgus_, a tower.) _Order_, Sessile
Cirripedes, Lam.--_Descr._ Composed of a single conical, hollow paries,
with a small aperture closed by an operculum of four valves, and
supported upon a cup-shaped base.--_Obs._ The genera into which Leach
has divided this genus are Pyrgoma, Adna, and Megatrema; his genera
Nobia and Savignium differ in having but two valves for the operculum.
Pyrgoma differs from Creusia in having the body of the shell, i. e. the
parietal cone, simple, not divided into valves. Fig. 31.
PYRGOPOLON. De Montfort's figure of this genus appears as if it had
been drawn from the nucleus of a Belemnite.
PYRULA. Auct. (_A little pear._) _Fam._ Canalifera, Lam.
Siphonostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Thin, oblong, pyriform, ventricose
towards the spire, gradually tapering towards the anterior of the
aperture, spire short, consisting of few volutions; aperture wide,
terminating in a long, narrow, open, canal; columella smooth, elegantly
tortuous.--_Obs._ The above description includes all the true Fig
shells, which present a most graceful form; the contour partaking of
the peculiar curve, called by painters the line of beauty. P. Ficus,
fig. 390.
PYRUM. Humph. PYRULA, Lam.
QUADRATE. (_Quadratus._) Square, applied when the outline of shells is
formed by nearly straight lines meeting at right angles.
QUADRILATERAL. Four-sided.
QUINQUELOCULINA. D'Orbigny. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
RADIATING. (_Radians._) A term applied to the ribs, striæ, bands of
colours, &c. when they meet in a point at the umbones of a bivalve
shell, and spread out towards the ventral margin.--_Ex._ The bands of
colour in Tellina radiata, fig. 105.
RADICATED. (_Radix_, a root.) Attached, and as it were rooted by means
of a fibrous byssus.
RADIOLATA. Lam. A family belonging to the order Cephalopoda, Lam. The
shells belonging to it are described as discoidal, with the spire
central, and the chambers radiating from the centre to the
circumference. This family contains the genera Rotalina, Lenticulina,
and Placentula.
RADIOLITES. A genus belonging to the family of Rudistes, differing from
Sphærulites, in having both the valves more conical.
RADIUS. Montf. A genus composed of OVULUM Volva, Auct. and other
similar species, having a long attenuated canal at each extremity. Fig.
442.
RADIX. Montf. A genus composed of species of LIMNÆA, having a short
spire and wide aperture.--_Ex._ L. aperta, fig. 309.
RAMIFIED. (_Ramus_, a branch.) Branched out.--_Ex._ The varices of some
Murices, &c.
RAMPHIDOMA. Schum. POLLICIPES, Leach.
RAMOSE. (_Ramosus_, branched.) Spread out into branches. _Ex._ Murex
inflatus, fig. 395.
RANELLA. Auct. (_Rana_, a frog.) _Fam_. Canalifera, _Lam._
Siphonostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Oval or oblong, depressed, thick, with
two rows of continuous varices, skirting the outline, one on each side;
spire rather short, pyramidal, acute, aperture oval, terminating in a
canal at each extremity; outer lip thickened within, crenulated, or
denticulated, forming an external varix; inner lip spread over a
portion of the body whorl.--_Obs._ The shells composing this
well-defined genus, are for the most part covered with tuberculations,
and granulations, and from the colour and squat shape of some species,
have been likened to frogs. The Ranellæ are mostly inhabitants of the
East Indian seas. The few fossil species known, occur in the tertiary
beds. The two continuous rows of varices skirting the spire,
distinguish this genus from Triton, which it nearly approaches, and
into which some species run by imperceptible gradations. Fig. 393, 394.
Many new species were brought to this country by Mr. Cuming, and are
represented in parts 84, 85, 88, 89, 92, 93, of the author's
Conchological Illustrations.
RANGIA. Desmoulins. GNATHODON, Gray.
RAPANUS. Schum.? A genus consisting of species of PYRULA, Auct. which
are thin, much inflated, with short canals. Fig. 389, P. papyracea.
RAPELLA. Sw. A genus of "Pyrulinæ," Sw. thus described: "Shell
ventricose, generally thin, almost globose; the base suddenly
contracted, and forming a short canal, the channel almost obsolete;
umbilicus large, partly concealed by the inner lip. R. papyracea. En.
Méth. 436, f. 1." Sw. p. 307. RAPANUS, Schum. Fig. 389.
RAPHANISTER. Montf. A species of madrepore, described as a shell.
RAPUM. Humph. TURBINELLA, Lam.
RAZOR SHELL. A common name by which shells of the genus Solen, are
known in the market.
RECTILINEAR. (_Rectus_, right; _linea_, a line.) In a straight line.
_Ex._ The hinge of Byssoarca Noæ, fig. 132.
RECURVED. (_Re_, back; _curvo_, to bend.) Turned backwards; the term,
when applied to symmetrical conical univalves, is used to signify that
the apex is turned towards the posterior margin, as in Emarginula, fig.
241.
REFLECTED. (_Reflected_, to fold back.) Turned, or folded backwards.
_Ex._ The edge of the outer lip in Bulinus, fig. 282, is _reflected_,
while that of Cypræa, fig. 445 to 450, is _inflected_.
REMOTE. (_Remotus_, distant.) Remote lateral teeth in a bivalve shell,
are those that are placed at a distance from the cardinal teeth. _Ex._
The lateral teeth of Aphrodita, (fig. 123.) are remote; those of Donax,
(fig. 108) are near.
RENIELLA. Sw. A sub-genus of Malleus. Lardn. Cyclop. Malac. p. 886.
Gray states it to be only a distorted specimen of Vulsella, Syn. B. M.
p. 145.
RENIFORM. (_Ren_, a kidney; _forma_, shape.) Shaped like a kidney.
_Ex._ The aperture of Ampullaria, fig. 318.
RENULINA. Lam. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
REOPHAX. Montf. A genus of microscopic Orthocerata, Bl.
REPENT. (_Repens_, creeping.) A term applied to those shells, which,
being attached by the whole length of their shell, give the idea of
creeping or crawling. _Ex._ Vermilia, fig. 7.
RETICULATED. (_Reticulatus._) Resembling net-work.
RETIFERA. Bl. The first family of the order Cervicobranchiata, Bl.
containing the genus Patella.
REVERSED or SINISTRAL SHELLS, are those in which the aperture is on the
left side of the shell, while it is held with the mouth downwards, and
towards the observer. _Ex._ Balea, fig. 296. Attached bivalves are said
to be reversed, when the left valve is free, instead of the right; a
circumstance which sometimes occurs in Chama and Ostrea.
RHEDA. Humph. HYALÆA, Lam.
RHINOCLAVIS. Sw. A genus of "Cerithinæ," Sw. thus described: "channel
curved backwards, in an erect position; inner lip very thick, with a
tumid margin; pillar generally with a central plait; operculum
ear-shaped; lineatum. En. M. 443, fig. 3, Vertagus. Ib. f. 2,
subulatum. Lam. No. 23, fasciatum. Mart. 157, f. 1481. obeliscus, En.
Méth. 443, f. 4; aluco, Ib. f. 5, (Aberrant,) semi-granosum. Ib. 443,
f. 1, asperum. Mart. 157, f. 1483."
RHINOCURUS. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
RHINODOMUS. Sw. A genus of "Scolyminæ," Sw. thus described: No internal
groove; shell clavate; the spire longer than, or equal with the
aperture; the whorls with ridges or longitudinal varices, and rendered
hispid by transverse grooves; inner lip wanting; pillar with a terminal
fold; aperture striated; outer lip with a basal sinus. R. senticosus,
Chem. tab. 193. f. 1864-1866.
RHIZORUS. Montf. A genus described from a microscopic shell, appearing
to be a cylindrical Bulla.
RHODOSTOMA. Sw. A sub-genus of "Turbininæ," Sw. p. 344.
RHOMBOIDAL. ([Greek: rhomboeidos], _rhomboeidus_.) Having a rhombic
form, i. e. four-sided; two sides meeting at acute, two at obtuse,
angles. Conchologists are not very strict in the application of this
term, for, indeed, a perfect rhomboidal figure could not be found among
all the testaceous productions of the sea.
RHOMBOIDES. Bl. A genus described as resembling Byssomya in the shell,
but differing in the animal. MYTILUS rugosus, Gmelin. HYPOGÆA barbata,
Poli.
RHOMBUS. Montf. ([Greek: rhombos], _rhombos_, a rhomb.) A genus
consisting of species of CONUS, having a rhomboidal or quadrilateral
form and a coronated spire. _Ex._ Conus nocturnus, fig. 459.
RICINULA. Lam. (Resembling the seed-vessel of the _Ricinus_.) _Fam._
Purpurifera, Lam. Entomostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Sub-ovate, thick,
tuberculated; spire short; aperture narrow, terminating anteriorly in a
short canal; outer-lip thickened, denticulated within, digitated
without; columellar lip spread over a portion of the body whorl, and
granulated.--_Obs._ This interesting genus is composed of some neat
little shells allied to Purpura, from which they are distinguished by
the finger-like branching of the outer lip, and the granulations of the
columella. Fig. 413, R. Horrida.
RIGHT. See DEXTRAL.
RIMULA. Defr. A genus consisting of a minute species of EMARGINULA,
Auct. which has a fissure near the margin, but not reaching it. R.
Blainvillii, fig. 243.
RIMULINA. D'Orbigny. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
RINGICULA. Deshayes. A genus founded on Auricula ringens of Lamarck and
several small fossils, resembling in some respects Pedipes of Adanson;
they would belong to Tornatella, were it not for the lips being
thickened and marginated, fig. 540, A. ringens.
RISSOA. Freminville. _Fam._ Ellipsostomata, Bl. Melaniana,
Lam.--_Descr._ Oblong, turrited, acuminated; spire long, consisting of
numerous whorls; aperture round or oval, pointed posteriorly, dilated
anteriorly; outer lip slightly thickened, emarginated, operculum
horny.--_Obs._ The Rissoæ are small white, marine shells, considered by
some authors as resembling Melaniæ, but placed by Sowerby near the
Scalariæ. They are principally from the shores of the Mediterranean,
and are also very abundant on the British shores, as well as the East
and West Indian. Fig. 346, R. reticulata.
ROBULUS. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
ROLLUS. Montf. A genus composed of CONUS Geographus, Auct. fig. 462,
and other species, rather cylindrical in form, and having a coronated
spire.
ROSALINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
ROSTELLARIA. (From _rostrum_, a beak.) _Fam._ Alatæ, Lam.
Siphonostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Turrited, fusiform, thick, smooth or
ribbed; aperture oval, terminating anteriorly in a long canal,
posteriorly in a channel running up the spire; outer lip dilated,
thickened, sometimes digitated, running up all or part of the spire,
with a sinus near the anterior canal; inner lip smooth, spread over
part of the body whorl and of the spire. The Red Sea and the Indian
Ocean produce the few known species of this genus.--_Obs._ HIPPOCHRENES
is the name given by De Montfort, to those fossil species which have
the outer lip simple and very much dilated. R. curvirostrum, fig. 412.
APORRHAIS is a name given to another proposed genus, composed of
Rostellaria pes-pelecani, Auct. fig. 404. and similar species.
ROSTRATED. (From _rostrum_, a beak.) Having one or more protruding
points, as Tellina rostrata.
ROTALIA. Lam. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera. The same as
Rotalites of De Montfort.
ROTELLA. Lam. (_A little wheel._) _Fam._ Turbinacea, Lam.--_Descr._
Orbicular, generally smooth, shining; spire conical, depressed, short;
aperture subtrigonal; outer lip thin, angulated near the centre; inner
lip spread over the surface of the whorls, forming a thickened disc.
Operculum horny, orbicular, spiral, with numerous whorls.--_Obs._ The
pretty little shells thus described are found in seas of tropical
climates. They are distinguished from other genera of the family by
their lenticular form and the orbicular callosity of the under surface.
Fig. 357, R. vestiaria.
RUDISTES. Lam. A family of the order Conchifera Monomyaria, Lam. the
shells of which are described as irregular, very inequivalve, without
distinct umbones; the ligament, hinge and animal entirely unknown. The
shells contained in this family may be thus distinguished.
1. CALCEOLA. Large valve conical; attached by a flat space between
the umbones, which form the extremities of the shell. Fig. 194.
2. HIPPURITES. Large valve cylindrical, with two internal lobes or
varices. Fig. 198.
3. SPHÆRULITES. Large valve attached, including _Radiolites_.
Birostrites is proved to be the cast of a Sphærulites. Fig. 193,
196.
4. HIPPONYX. Flat valve attached, upper valve conical. Fig. 199,
200.
RUDISTES. Bl. The second order of the class Acephalophora, Bl.
containing the genera Sphærulites, Crania, Hippurites, Radiolites,
Birostrites and Calceola.
RUDOLPHUS. Lam. MONOCEROS, Auct.
RUFOUS. Reddish brown.
RUGOSE. Rough, rugged.
RUPELLARIA. Fl. de Belvue. An unfigured shell placed by De Blainville
in a division of the genus Venerirupis.
RUPICOLA. Fl. de Belvue. A shell described by De Blainville as an
equivalve, terebrating species of ANATINA. A. rupicola, Lam.
SABINEA. A genus of shells resembling small species of LITTORINA, as L.
Ulvæ, &c. of our shores.
SADDLE OYSTER. PLACUNA Sella, so called on account of a resemblance in
shape to a saddle; the part near the umbones being flat, and the
ventral margins being turned up in a sort of fluting or peak.
SAGITTA. (_An arrow._) An ancient name for Belemnites.
SALIENT. (_Saliens._) Jutting out, prominent.
SALPACEA. Bl. The second family of the order Heterobranchiata, Bl.
containing no genera of shells.
SANDALINA. Schum. CREPIDULINA, Lam. A genus of microscopic
Foraminifera.
SANGUINOLARIA. Lam. (_Sanguis_, blood.) _Fam._ Nymphacea, Lam.
Pyloridea, Bl.--_Descr._ Equivalve, inequilateral, transverse,
sub-ovate, rounded anteriorly, sub-rostrate posteriorly, compressed,
thin, covered with a shining epidermis, gaping at the sides; hinge with
two cardinal teeth in each valve, and an external ligament supported
upon a prominent fulcrum; muscular impressions two in each valve,
lateral, irregular, palleal impressions with a large sinus.--_Obs._
This description is made to exclude some of Lamarck's species of
Sanguinolaria, such as S. occidens, S. rugosa, which are Psammobiæ; and
to include others which he has left out. The Sanguinolariæ are
sub-rostrated posteriorly, while the Psammobiæ are sub-quadrate and
have a posterior angle. Fig. 98, S. rosea. Sandy shores of tropical
climates.
SARACENARIA. Defr. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
SAVIGNIUM. Leach. A genus of Sessile Cirripedes, described as composed
of four valves soldered together, and a convex bivalve operculum; the
ventral and posterior valve on each side being soldered together, in
other respects resembling PYRGOMA. Fig. 30.
SAXICAVA. Fl. de Belvue. Journ. de Ph. an. 10. (_Saxum_, a stone;
_cava_, a hollow.) _Fam._ Lithophagidæ, Lam. Pyloridea, Bl.--_Descr._
Transverse, irregular, generally oblong, inequilateral, sub-equivalve,
gaping anteriorly; ligament external; muscular impressions two,
lateral; palleal impression interrupted, not sinuated; hinge, when
young with sometimes two or three minute, obtuse, generally indistinct,
cardinal teeth; which become obsolete when full grown.--_Obs._ Several
genera have been founded only upon the difference between the young and
old shell of the same species of this genus. The Saxicavæ are found in
the little hollows of rocks; in cavities on the backs of oysters, of
roots of sea-weeds, &c. in northern and temperate climates. S. rugosa,
fig. 94.
SCABRICULA. Sw. A sub-genus of Mitræ, consisting of species which have
a roughened external surface, &c. Sw. Malac. p. 319.
SCABROUS. Rough.
SCALA. Klein. SCALARIA, Auct.
SCALARIA. Auct. _Fam._ Scalariana, Lam. Cricostomata, Bl.--_Descr._
Turrited, oval or oblong; spire long, composed of rounded, sometimes
separate whorls, surrounded by regular concentric ribs; aperture oval,
peristome reflected continuous, entire.--_Obs._ The typical species of
this genus, commonly called the Wentletrap, (S. pretiosa) is celebrated
for the beautiful appearance caused by the numerous ribs encircling the
whorls, and formerly produced an immense price in the market. It is
brought from China. There are many smaller species, some of which are
equally elegant. Fig. 351, S. Pallasii, Kiener.
SCALARIANA. Lam. A family belonging to the first section of the order
Trachelipoda, Lam. The shells belonging to it are described as having
the inner and outer lips continuous, without a canal, emargination, or
other division. In this respect the family is stated to differ from the
Turbinacea, and is therefore separated. The genera may be distinguished
as follows:--
1. VERMETUS. Irregularly twisted, like Serpula. Fig. 345.
2. EULIMA. Pyramidal; apex contorted; including _Bonellia_. Fig.
347, 348.
3. RISSOA. Pyramidal, straight, consisting of few whorls. Fig. 346.
4. SCALARIA. With external varices. Fig. 351.
5. CIRRUS. Trochiform. Fig. 349.
6. ENOMPHALUS. Orbicular. Fig. 350.
7. DELPHINULA. Few whorls, rapidly increasing. Fig. 352.
SCALLOP. The common name for shells of the genus Pecten, the larger
species of which were worn by pilgrims to the Holy Land in the time of
the Crusades.
SCALPELLUM. Leach. (A little knife or lancet.) _Order_, Pedunculated
Cirripedes, Lam.--_Descr._ Flat, quadrated, acuminated, composed of
thirteen valves, one dorsal, arcuated; one pair apicial, acuminated;
one pair ventral; two pair lateral, small, sub-quadrate; pedicle
scaly.--_Obs._ This genus and _Smilium_, are the only Pedunculated
Cirripedes which have thirteen valves; in the latter genus, which we
think should at any rate be united to this, the valves are somewhat
differently placed, and the pedicle is said to be smooth. Fig. 35,
Scalpellum vulgare. British.
SCAPHA. Klein. (_A boat._) NAVICELLA, Auct.
SCAPHANDER. Montf. BULLA lignaria, Auct. Fig. 251.
SCAPHELLA. Sw. A genus of the family "Volutinæ," Sw. thus described:
"Shell smooth, almost polished; outer lip thickened internally; suture
enamelled; lower plaits the smallest; apex of the spire various: 1.
fusiformis. Sw. Bligh. Cat. 2. undulatus. _Ex._ Conch. pl. 27. 3.
Junonia, _Ex._ Conch. pl. 33. 4. stromboides. 5. papillosa. Sw. Sow.
gen." Sw. Malac. p. 318.
SCAPHITES. (_A boat._) _Fam._ Ammonacea, Lam. and Bl.--_Descr._
Convolute, chambered, closely related to the Ammonites, from which it
differs in the last whorl being eccentrically straightened, and
lengthened, and again incurved towards the extremity. Only known in a
fossil state. Fig. 481, S. æqualis.
SCAPHULA. Sw. A genus of "OLIVINÆ," Sw. thus described: "Spire very
short, thick, obtuse, and not defined; aperture very wide, with only
two or three oblique plaits at the base. Sw. patula, _Sow._ Tank. Cat.
2331. (_b._)" (Sw. p. 322.)
SCARABUS. Montf. (_Scarabæus_, a kind of beetle.) _Fam._ Colimacea,
Lam. Auriculacea, Fer.--_Descr._ Oval, somewhat compressed, smooth,
with slightly raised varices; spire equal in length to the aperture,
pointed, consisting of numerous whorls; aperture ovate, rounded
anteriorly, pointed posteriorly, modified by the last whorl; outer lip
sub-reflected, with several prominent folds on the inner edge; inner
lip spread over a portion of the body whorls, with several prominent
folds.--_Obs._ The shells of this genus are found like Auriculæ, in
marshy places. C. imbrium is said to have been found on the tops of
mountains, by Captain Freycinet. Fig. 299*, S. imbrium.
SCHIZODESMA. Gray. A genus composed of species of MACTRA, Auct. with
the ligament placed in an external slit. Fig. 8, M. Spengleri.
SCISSURELLA. D'Orbigny. (_Scissus_, cut.) _Fam._ Turbinacea,
Lam.--_Descr._ Sub-globose, umbilicated, with a spiral groove
terminating at the margin of the outer lip in a slit; spire short;
aperture oval, modified by the last whorl; outer lip sharp, with a deep
slit near the spire. Recent on the coasts of Britain; fossil in the
Calcaire-grossièr.--_Obs._ This genus, consisting of small shells, is
known from Pleurotomaria by the shortness of the spire; the latter
genus being trochiform. Fig. 340, S. elatior.
SCOLYMUS. Sw. A genus of the family "Scolyminæ." Sw. (Turbinella) thus
described: "Sub-fusiform, armed with foliated spines; spire shorter;
pillar with distinct plaits in the middle." The species enumerated are,
"cornigerus, pugillaris, Globulus, Rhinoceros, ceramicus, Capitellum,
umbilicaris, mitis." Sw. Malac. p. 304.
SCORTIMUS. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
SCROBICULARIA. Schum. Species of LUTRARIA, Act. of a rounded shape.
LIGULA, Leach.
SCROBICULATED. (_Scrobiculus_, a little ditch or furrow.) Having small
ditches or furrows marked on the surface.
SCUTELLA. Brod. (_Scutellum_, a little shield.) _Fam._ Phyllidiana,
Lam.--_Descr._ Shaped like Ancylus, pearly within; apex posteriorly
inclined, central, involute; muscular impressions two, oblong, ovate,
lateral; aperture large, ovate.--_Obs._ This genus is intermediate
between Ancylus and Patella; while in the aspect of the beak, the
observer is reminded of Navicella.
SCUTIBRANCHIATA. Bl. (_Scutum_, a shield; _branchiæ_, gills.) The third
order of Paracephalophora Hermaphrodita, Bl. containing animals with
patelliform, but not symmetrical shells, and divided into the families
Otidea and Calyptracea.
SCUTUM. Montf. (_A shield._) PARMOPHORUS ELONGATUS, Lam.
SECURIFORM. (_Securis_, an axe; _forma_, shape.) Hatchet-shaped. _Ex._
Pedum, fig. 179.
SEDENTARY ANNELIDES. Lam. The third order of the class Annelides, Lam.
distinguished from the two other orders by the circumstance of the
animal being enveloped by a shelly tube which it never entirely leaves.
The order is divided into the families Dorsalia, Maldania, Serpulacea,
and Amphitrites. Fig. 1 to 13.
SEA DATE. The common name for PHOLAS Dactylus in the market, given to
it on account of its cylindrical shape. Fig. 35.
SEGMENTINA. Flem. NAUTILUS Lacustris, Montagu. Test. Brit. Planorbis
nitidus, Drap. tab. 2. Fig. 17 to 19.
SEMICORDATE. Half heart-shaped.
SEMIDISCOIDAL. Forming the half of a circular disc.
SEMILUNAR. Half moon-shaped.
SENECTUS. Humph. A genus of "Senectinæ," thus described by Swainson:
"Imperforate; the base produced into a broad flat lobe, spire rather
elevated and pointed; the whorls convex; aperture perfectly round; not
more oblique than _Helix_; inner lip entirely wanting, imperialis.
Mart. 180. f. 1790. marmoratus. l. M. 448. f. 1." Sw. p. 348.
SEMIPHYLLIDIANA. Lam. The second family of the order Gasteropoda, Lam.
the genera of which are distinguished as follows:--
1. UMBRELLA, round, flat; apex central, muscular impression not
interrupted. Fig. 233.
2. PLEUROBRANCHUS, apex lateral, sub-spiral. Fig. 232.
SENOCLITA. Schum. CINERAS, Leach.
SEPTARIA. Lam. See TEREDO.
SEPTUM. (Lat.) An enclosure, applied to the thin plate of Crepidula,
fig. 239; also to the plates dividing the chambers of multilocular
shells.
SERAPHS. Montf. TEREBELLUM convolutum, Lam. Fig. 451.
SERPULA. Auct. (_A little serpent._) _Fam._ Surpulacea, Lam.--_Descr._
Tubular, narrow, pointed at the apex, gradually widening towards the
aperture, attached irregularly, sometimes spirally, twisted,
imbricated; keeled or plain; aperture generally round, with the edge
simple, or angulated by the termination of external ribs or
keels.--_Obs._ This description is intended to include the genera
Serpula, Spirorbis, Vermilia, Galeolaria, &c. The Serpulæ abound in all
seas, on rocky shores, at any time covered by water, attached to any
kind of marine substance, whether moveable or stationary. The fossil
species occur in almost all tertiary strata. Fig. 4 to 7.
SERPULACEA. Lam. The fourth family of the order Sedentary Annelides,
Lam. containing the following genera of tubular, irregular shells.
1. SERPULA, attached by a small portion of the shell. Fig. 4.
2. SPIRORBIS, attached by the whole length, coiled. Fig. 5.
3. Galeolaria, with the open extremity raised, and the aperture
tongue-shaped. Fig. 6.
4. VERMILIA, attached by the whole length, straight or waved. Fig.
7.
5. SPIROGLYPHUS, which hollows a bed in the body to which it is
attached. Fig. 8.
Sowerby. (Genera of Shells, published at 50, Great Russell
Street, Bloomsbury,) gives satisfactory reasons for re-uniting the
whole of the preceding under the name SERPULA.
6. MAGILUS, which burrows in coral; outer lip reflected. Fig. 9 to
10.
7. LEPTOCONCHUS, outer lip reflected. Fig. 11.
8. STYLIFER, spiral, thin, globular, living in Starfish. Fig. 12,
13.
The three last genera should certainly find some other place in
the system.
SESSILE CIRRIPEDES. Lam. (_Sessilis_, low, dwarfish.) An order of
Cirripedes, consisting of those which are attached by the base of the
shells, containing the genera Tubicinella, Balanus, Coronula, Acasta,
Pyrgoma, Creusia. To which may be added some other genera enumerated in
explanation of figures 14 to 33. The shells of the Sessile Cirripedes
consist of two different sets of valves: 1st. The _parietal_ valves, or
pieces arranged in a circle, side by side, around the body of the
animal, (an arrangement designated _coronular_ by De Blainville.) 2nd.
The _opercular_ valves, or pieces placed so as to enclose the aperture.
Between those opercular valves the ciliæ protrude which characterize
the class. Besides these two sets of valves, there is generally a
shelly plate, serving as a sort of foundation to the rest. The Sessile
Cirripedes may be thus arranged.
1. TUBICINELLA. Six parietal valves, tube-shaped, opercular valves
perpendicular. Fig. 14.
2. CORONULA. Six parietal valves, opercular valves horizontal. Fig.
15, 16, 17, 18.
These two genera fix themselves in the skin of the Whale. The
latter has been divided into the genera Chelonobia, Cetopirus,
Diadema, and Chthalamus.
3. PLATYLEPAS. Valves divided, each having a prominent internal
plate. Fig. 19.
4. CLITIA. Parietal valves four, opercular valves two, valves
dove-tailed into each other. Fig. 20.
5. ELMINEUS. Parietal valves four, opercular valves four. Fig. 22.
6. CONIA. Parietal valves four, thick and porous at the base. Fig.
21.
7. OCTOMERIS. Parietal valves eight. Fig. 24.
8. CATOPHRAGMUS. Parietal valves numerous, irregular. Fig. 23.
9. BALANUS. Parietal valves six; opercular valves four, placed
against each other conically in pairs. This genus has been divided
into Acasta, Conoplea, Chirona, and Balanus. Fig. 25, 26, 27.
10. CREUSIA. Parietal valves four, supported on the edge of a
funnel-shaped cavity. Fig. 28.
11. PYRGOMA. Paries simple, supported on a cavity. This genus has
been divided into the genera Nobia, Savignium, Pyrgoma, Adna,
Megatrema, and Daracia. Fig. 29 to 33.
SETIFEROUS. Hairy.
SHANK SHELL. The vulgar name for the shell designated Murex Rapa. It is
used in Ceylon for ornamental purposes.
SIDEROLITES. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
SIGARETUS. Lam. _Fam._ Macrostomata, Lam.--_Descr._ Suborbicular,
oblique, haliotoid, thick; spire depressed, consisting of two or three
rapidly increasing whorls; aperture wide, entire, modified by the last
whorl, the width exceeding the length; columella tortuous; inner lip
spread thinly over part of the body whorl; epidermis thin.--_Obs._ This
genus is distinguished from Natica, by the width of the aperture, and
the absence of the umbilical callosity. It may be known from Stomatia,
and Stomatella, by the texture, which in Sigaretus, is never pearly as
in Stomatia, the former being partly an internal shell. Fig. 334, S.
concavus. Mostly brought from tropical climates.
SILIQUA. Megerle. (A husk, or pod.) LEGUMINARIA, Schum. A genus
composed of species of SOLEN, Auct. which have an internal rib. Fig.
51, Solen radiatus.
SILIQUARIA. Brug. _Fam._ Cricostomata, Bl. Dorsalia, Lam.--_Descr._
Tubular, rugose, spiral near the apex, irregularly twisted near the
aperture, with a longitudinal fissure radiating from the apex, and
proceeding through all the whorls and sinuosities of the tube.--_Obs._
This genus was included in Serpula by Linnæus, from which, however, it
is distinguished by the longitudinal slit, fig. 1. S. anguina. The
recent species are found in the sponges with siliceous spiculæ, in the
Mediterranean; the fossils in tertiary beds.
SIMPLE. (_Simplex_, lat.) Single, entire, uninterrupted, undivided.
SIMPLEGAS. Mont. 1, 83. (_Simplex_, simple; [Greek: gastêr], _gaster_,
belly.) A genus described by De Blainville, as being discoidal, and
having the spire uncovered like AMMONITES, but having the chambers
divided, by simple septa, like Nautilus.--_Obs._ The septa of the shell
named Simplegas by De Montfort, are evidently sinuous, according to his
figure. Fig. 475, S. sulcata.
SINISTRAL. (_Sinister_, left.) On the left side. A sinistral shell is a
_reversed_ one. The sinistral valve of a bivalve shell may be known, by
placing the shell, with its ligamentary or posterior part towards the
observer; the sides of the shell will then correspond with his right
and left side.
SINUOUS. Winding, serpentine. The septa of Ammonites are sinuous. The
muscular impression of the mantle, or palleal impression of some
bivalve shells, is sinuated near the posterior muscular impression.
SINUS. (_Sinus_, a winding, or bay.) A winding or tortuous excavation.
The sinus in the outer lip of Strombus, fig. 406; and that in the
muscular impression of Venus, will be indicated by the letter _s_.
SIPHON. ([Greek: Siphon], siphon.) A pipe, or tube. A shelly tube
passing through the septa of chambered shells. It is said to be
_dorsal_, _central_, or _ventral_, according to its situation near the
outer, or inner parts of the whorl. See Introduction.
SIPHONAL SCAR. The name applied by Mr. Gray, to the opening or winding
sinus in the palleal impression of a bivalve shell, in the place where
the siphonal tube of the animal passes.
SIPHONARIA. Sow. ([Greek: Siphon], siphon.) _Fam._ Phyllidiana, Lam.
Patelloidea, Bl.--_Descr._ Patelliform, depressed, inclining to oval,
ribbed; apex nearly central, obliquely inclining towards the posterior
margin; muscular impression partly encircling the central disc, but
interrupted in front, where the head of the animal reposes, and at the
side by a siphon, or canal passing from the apex to the margin.--_Obs._
This siphon, which is in some species very distinct, serves to
distinguish this genus from Patella. S. Sipho, fig. 231*.
SIPHONOBRANCHIATA. Bl. (_Siphon_, and _Branchiæ_, gills.) The first
order of Paracephalophora Dioica, Bl. divided into the families
Siphonostomata, Entomostomata, and Angiostomata.
SIPHONOSTOMA. Guild. A sub-genus of Pupa, consisting of several
elongated species, which have the aperture detached from the whorls;
such as P. costata, and fasciata.
SIPHONOSTOMATA. Bl. ([Greek: Siphon], _siphon_; [Greek: stoma],
_stoma_, mouth.) The first family of Siphonobranchiata, Bl. the shells
of which are extremely variable in form, but always have a canal or
notch at the anterior extremity of the aperture. This family partly
answers to the Canalifera of Lamarck and the genus Murex in the system
of Linnæus. It contains the genera Pleurotoma, Rostellaria, Fusus,
Pyrula, Fasciolaria, Turbinella, Columbella, Triton, Murex, Ranella,
and Struthiolaria.
SIPHUNCLE. (Siphunculus.) A small siphon.
SISTRUM. Montf. RICINULA, Auct. fig. 413.
SKENEA. _Flem._ A genus including some species of EUOMPHALUS and
CIRRUS.
SMILUM. Leach. _Fam._ Pedunculated Cirripedes.--_Descr._ Thirteen
pieces, ten of which are in pairs, lateral, subtriangular; one
posterior dorsal, linear; all smooth; peduncle hairy.--_Obs._ This
genus is distinguished from Pentelasmis, by the number of its valves,
and from Scalpellum, by the hairy peduncle. S. Peronii, fig. 36.
SNAIL. The common garden Snail, so destructive to our vegetables,
belongs to the genus Helix. The water snail, found in ponds, is
Planorbis.
SOL. Humph. A genus consisting of several species of the genus Trochus,
and corresponding with the sub-genus Tubicanthus, Sw. Malac. Fig. 349.
SOLARIUM. Auct. (_A terrace, or gallery_.) _Fam._ Turbinacea, Lam.
Goniostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Discoidal beneath, conical above, with a
wide umbilicus, the spiral margin of which is angulated and crenulated;
aperture trapezoidal; peritreme thin, sharp; columella straight;
operculum horny, subspiral.--_Obs._ The Solarium Perspectivum, is
commonly called the Staircase Trochus, from the angulated edges of the
whorls being seen through the umbilicus, which reaches to the apex, and
presents the appearance of a winding gallery. The species are not
numerous, they belong to tropical climates. A few fossil species occur
in the tertiary formations. Fig. 353, S. Perspectivum.
SOLDANIA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
SOLEN. Auct. (_A kind of shell-fish_, Plin.) _Fam._ Solenacea, Lam.
Pyloridea, Bl.--_Descr._ Bivalve, transversely elongated,
sub-cylindrical, equivalve, very inequilateral, gaping at both
extremities, umbones terminal, close to the anterior extremity; hinge
linear, with several small cardinal teeth, and a long, external
ligament; muscular impressions distant, anterior tongue-shaped, placed
behind the cardinal teeth, posterior irregular, sub-ovate; palleal
impression long, bilobed posteriorly.--_Obs._ The above description of
the genus Solen, is framed so as to admit only those species which are
commonly called Razor Shells, with the umbones terminal, and the
anterior muscular impression behind them. They are found buried deep in
the sand, in a perpendicular position, their situation being pointed
out by a dimple, on the surface. They are abundant in temperate
climates. Some of the Lamarckian Solenes will be found in the genus
Solenocurtus, Bl. Fig. 60, 61.
SOLENACEA. Lam. A family of the order Conchifera, Dimyaria Lam. The
shells belonging to it are described as transversely elongated,
destitute of accessary pieces, gaping only at the lateral extremities;
ligament external.--The genera may be thus distinguished.
1. SOLEN. Razor shells, truncated at the extremities. Fig. 60.
2. PANOPÆA. Broad, with prominent tooth. Fig. 65, 66.
3. SOLENOCURTUS. Rounded at the extremities, with internal bar.
Fig. 61.
4. SOLENIMYA. No teeth, epidermis over-reaching the shell. Fig. 68.
5. GLYCIMERIS. Thick, fulcrum of the ligament prominent. Fig. 67.
6. LEPTON. Flat, scale-shaped. Fig 62.
7. NOVACULINA. Umbones nearly central; covered by a thin epidermis.
Fig. 63.
8. GLAUCONOME. Oval, margins close. Fig. 64.
SOLENELLA. Sow. (_Solen._) _Fam._ Arcacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Oval,
equivalve, subequilateral, compressed, covered with a thin, shining,
olive-green epidermis; hinge with three or four anterior, and numerous
sharp posterior lateral teeth, arranged in a straight line; muscular
impressions two, lateral; palleal impression with a large sinus;
ligament external, prominent, elongated.--_Obs._ This genus partakes of
the characters of the genus Nucula, and of the family Solenacea. A few
specimens of the only species known (S. Norrisii, fig. 138.) were
dredged by Mr. Cuming at Valparaiso.
SOLENIMYA. Lam. (Solen and Mya.) _Fam._ Mactracea, Lau. Pyloridea,
Bl.--_Descr._ Equivalve, inequilateral, transversely oblong, rounded at
the extremities with the umbones near the posterior side, covered with
a shining brown epidermis extending beyond the edges of the shell;
hinge without teeth; ligament partly internal, placed in the margin of
an oblique, flattish, posterior rib; muscular impressions two, distant,
lateral. From the Mediterranean, Australian, and Atlantic
Oceans.--_Obs._ Solenimya differs from Solenocurtus and the true
Solens, in having the posterior side of the shell the shortest; in the
internal ligament; and in being destitute of teeth. It resembles
Glycimeris, but is not incrassated. Fig. 68, Solenimya radiata.
SOLENOCURTUS. Bl. (_Solen_ and _curtus_, short.) _Fam._ Pyloridea, Bl.
Solenacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Oval, elongated, equivalve, sub-equilateral,
with the edges nearly straight and parallel, and the extremities rather
truncated; umbones not very prominent, sub-central; hinge with or
without two or three rudimentary cardinal teeth; ligament prominent,
placed upon thick callosities; muscular impressions two, distant,
rounded; palleal impression straight, with a deep sinus. East
Indies--_Obs._ Distinguished from the true Solenes by the central
position of the umbones and an internal bar reaching partly across the
shell.
SOLETELLINA. Bl. SANGUINOLARIA radiata. S. Diphos, f. 99. S. livida of
Sowerby, and similar species, are placed together in this genus.
SPATHA. Lea. A sub-genus of IRIDINÆ, consisting of I. rubens and I.
nilotica, which have not distinctly crenulated margins. Spatha
solenoides, of Lea, is the genus Mycetopus D'Orbigny. Fig. 151.
SPHÆNIA. Turt. A genus consisting of a small species resembling
Saxicava, in general appearance, but having a spoon-shaped process on
the hinge of one valve. S. Binghamii, Fig. 96.
SPHÆROIDINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
SPHÆRULACEA. Bl. The first family of Cellulacea consisting of the
following genera of microscopic Foraminifera: Miliola, Melonia,
Saracenaria, Textularia.
SPHÆRULACEA. Lam. The fourth family of Cephalopoda, Lam. described as
multilocular, globular, sphærical, or oval, with the whorls enveloping
each other; some of them have a particular internal cavity, and are
composed of a series of elongated, straight and contiguous chambers
which altogether form a covering for the internal cavity. This family
contains the genera Miliola, Gyrogona and Melonia.
SPHÆRULITES. Lam. (_Sphæra_, a sphere.) _Fam._ Rudistes, Lam. and
Bl.--_Descr._ Orbicular, inequivalve, irregularly foliated outside;
lower valve cup-shaped, depressed; upper valve nearly flat, like an
operculum.--_Obs._ These fossils are not regarded as shells by all
conchologists. S. foliacea, Fig. 193.
SPHINCTERULUS. Montf. LENTICULINA, Bl. A genus of microscopic
Foraminifera.
SPINES. (_Spina_, a thorn.) Thin, pointed spikes.
SPINOSE. (Spinosus.) Having spines or elevated points, as Neritina
spinosa. Fig. 325.
SPIRAL. (_Spira_, a spire.) Revolving outwards from a central apex or
nucleus, like the spring of a watch. A shell or an operculum, may be
spiral, without being produced into a pyramid. Bands of colour, striæ,
grooves, &c. commencing from the nucleus and following the volutions of
the shell, are described by the above word.
SPIRAMILLA. Bl. A genus of Serpulacea, differing from other Serpulæ
principally in the characters of the animal.
SPIRATELLA. Bl. LIMACINEA, Lam. Fig. 224.
SPIRE. (_Spira._) The cone or pyramid produced in a non-symmetrical
univalve by its oblique revolution downwards from the apex or nucleus.
The spire, in descriptions, includes all the volutions above the
aperture. See Introduction.
SPIRIFER. Sow. (_Spira_, a spire; _fero_, to bear.) _Order_,
Brachiopoda, Lam.--_Descr._ Transverse, equilateral; hinge linear,
straight, widely extended on both sides of the umbones, which are
separated by a flat area in the upper and larger valve; this area is
divided in the centre by a triangular pit for the passage of the
byssus; interior with two spirally convolute appendages.--_Obs._ This
genus, which is only known in a fossil state, is distinguished from
Terebratula externally, by the flat area in one valve, internally, by
the singular spiral process from which the above name is derived. Fig.
214, 215. Most of the species belong to the mountain or carboniferous
limestone.
SPIROGLYPHUS. Daud. A genus consisting of a species of Serpula _Auct._
which makes a groove for itself in the surface of shells. Serpula
spirorbis, var. Dillwyn. Fig. 8.
SPIROLINA. Lam. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
SPIROLOCULINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
SPIRORBIS. Lam. A genus composed of species of SERPULA, Auct. which are
coiled round in a spiral disc like a snake at rest. S. nautiloides,
fig. 5, is the common little white shell, found upon the shell of
lobsters.
SPIRULA. (_Spira_, a winding compass.) _Fam._ Lituolata, Lam. Lituacea,
Bl.--_Descr._ Convolute, smooth, symmetrical, discoid, with parallel
unconnected whorls, divided into numerous chambers by transverse septa;
siphon continuous.--_Obs._ This pretty little shell is partly internal,
only a part of it being visible when on the animal. Fig. 471.
SPISULA. Gray. A genus composed of MACTRA fragilis, and other similar
species, which have the ligament sub-external, marginal, not separate
from the cartilage; with the posterior lateral teeth double in one
valve, and single in the other. M. fragilis, fig. 80, is the species
figured for Spisula in Mr. Gray's paper on the Mactradæ, in the second
series of Loudon's Magazine of Natural History. We have since learned,
however, that it was figured there by mistake, not having been intended
for a Spisula, but belonging more properly to the genus Mactra, as
defined by Mr. Gray, whose description of Spisula, is as
follows:--"Shell ovate, trigonal, sub-angular at each end. Hinge and
lateral teeth as in Mactra, but hinge of left tooth small. Siphonal
inflexion ovate." The principal difference between Spisula and Mactra
is, that the ligament is not separated from the cartilage in the
former.
SPONDYLUS. Auct. (_A shell-fish_, Ancients.) _Fam._ Pectenides, Lam.
Sub-ostracea, Bl.--_Descr._ Inequivalve, sub-equilateral, irregularly
foliaceous and spinose, auriculated, denticulated at the margins,
attached by the lower and deeper valve; hinge rectilinear, with two
prominent teeth in each valve, locking into corresponding cavities in
the opposite valve; umbones separated by a broad, elongated, triangular
disc in the lower valve; ligament contained in a groove, dividing the
triangular area in the centre; muscular impressions one in each valve,
sub-central, sub-orbicular. The Mediterranean, East and West Indies,
and China, produce Spondyli most abundantly.--_Obs._ This genus is
remarkable for the richness and beauty of the spines and foliations,
which adorn the external surface of most of the species, the splendid
colours by which many of them are varied, and the natural groupings
formed by their attachment to each other. Fig. 177, and Frontispiece.
SPORULUS. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
SQUAMOSE. (_Squama_, a scale.) Scaly, covered with scales, as the
pedicle of Pollicipes Mitellus, fig. 37*.
STENOPUS. Guild. ([Greek: Stenos], narrow, [Greek: pous], foot.) A
genus nearly "allied to the Linnæan Helices, from all of which it
differs in the curious contraction of the pedal disc, and the caudal
tentaculum furnished with a gland beneath." The shell is described as
heliciform, umbilicated, transparent, with the aperture transverse. The
two species described are Stenopus cruentatus and lividus; they are
both from the Caribbæan Islands, Guild. Zool. Journ. xii. p. 528, tab.
15, f. 1 to 5.
STOMATELLA. Lam. See STOMATIA.
STOMATIA. Auct. ([Greek: stoma], _stoma_, mouth.) _Fam._ Macrostomata,
Lam.--_Descr._ Sub-orbicular, oblong, auriform, variegated without,
iridescent within; spire depressed; aperture entire, very wide,
oblique; peritreme uninterrupted. _Obs._ This genus is known from
Haliotis by being destitute of the series of holes; is distinguished
from Sigaretus by the substance of the shell, the latter being
internal, and never pearly. Our description includes STOMATELLA, Lam.
The Stomatiæ are marine, and belong to the East Indies and New Holland.
Fig. 335, S. Phymotis.
STORILLUS. Montf. 1, 131. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera, included
in the genus Rotalites in M. De Blainville's system.
STRAPAROLLUS. Mont. A genus containing some species of HELIX, Auct.
Generic characters not defined.
STREPTAXIS. Gray. _Fam._ Colimacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Ovate, or oblong;
when young, sub-hemispherical, deeply umbilicated, with rapidly
enlarging whorls. At length the penultimate whorl is bent towards the
right and dorsal side of the axis, and the umbilicus becomes depressed,
and often nearly closed. The mouth is lunulate, the edge slightly
thickened and reflected, and often with a single tooth on the outer
side of the inner lip.--_Obs._ This genus of land shells is separated
from Helix on account of the eccentricity of the penultimate whorl. S.
contusa, fig. 269.
STRIATED. (_Stria_, a groove.) Marked with fine grooves or lines.
STRIGOCEPHALUS. Defr. PENTAMERUS, Sow.? GYPIDIA, Dalman.
STROMBUS. Auct. _Fam._ Alatæ, Lam. Angiostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Oblong,
turrited, rather ventricose, solid; aperture generally lengthened,
terminating posteriorly in a short canal, and anteriorly in an
emargination or truncated canal; outer lip, when young, thin; when full
grown, thickened and expanded, lobed at the spiral extremity, sinuated
anteriorly near the caudal canal.--_Obs._ This well known genus
includes some species of immense size, commonly called conch shells.
Most of the recent species are brought from the Indian Ocean. Very few
fossil species are known. The young shells have very much the
appearance of cones, the outer lips being thin. There are also several
species which do not, even when full grown, thicken their outer lips
very considerably. The genus Strombus is distinguished from
Rostellaria, by the notch in the outer lip, which in the latter genus
is close to the canal. Fig. 406, S. pugilis.
STROPHOMENA. Rafinesque. ORTHIS, Dalman.
STROPHOSTOMA. Deshayes. A fossil shell, of the family of Colimacea,
Lam. in some degree resembling Anostoma, having the aperture turned
upwards towards the spire, it is, however, umbilicated, and is said to
have an operculum resembling that of Cyclostoma. It is the Ferussina of
Grateloup. Fig. 534, 5, 6.
STRUTHIOLARIA. Auct. (_Struthio_, an Ostrich.) _Fam._ Canalifera,
Lam.--_Descr._ Oblong, turrited, thick; spire turrited, composed of
several angulated whorls; aperture oval, sub-quadrate, oblique; outer
lip thickened, reflected, advancing in the centre, receding towards the
extremities; inner lip thickened, expanded over the columella and part
of the body whorl.--_Obs._ This singular genus, consisting of three or
four recent species, is named "Pied D'Autruche" by the French, on
account of some resemblance in the outer lip to the foot of the
Ostrich. From New Zealand. Fig. 391, S. straminea.
STYLIFER. Brod. (_Stylus_, a style; _fero_, to bear.)--_Descr._ Thin,
pellucid, turbinated; apex a little out of the perpendicular; aperture
wide anteriorly, gradually narrowing towards the spiral extremity,
where it terminates acutely.--_Obs._ This is a genus of small,
transparent shells, found burrowing in the rays of Starfish. There are
but two or three species at present known, one of which is elongated
like Terebra, the other nearly globular. Fig. 12, S. astericola. West
Indies, Gallapagos, and Britain.
STYLINA. Flem. STYLIFER, Brod.
SUB. (_under._) Used as a prefix and signifying nearly. Thus a
bivalve-shell, the valves of which are nearly alike, would be described
as _sub_-equivalve.
SUB-APLYSIACEA. Bl. The first family of the order Monopleurobranchiata,
Bl. containing several genera of Mollusca without shells, and the genus
Pleurobranchus.
SUB-BIVALVES. A term of distinction applied by De Blainville, to those
spiral univalves which have an operculum; these, as they constitute two
distinct pieces, he considers as forming a medium between univalves and
bivalves.
SUB-MYTILACEA. Bl. The sixth family of the order Lamellibranchiata, Bl.
the shells belonging to which are described as free, rather pearly,
regular, equivalve; hinge dorsal, laminated; ligament external; two
muscular impressions; palleal impression not sinuated. This family,
with the exception of the last genus, agrees with the family Nayades of
Lamarck, and contains the genera Anodon, Unio, and Cardita.
SUB-OSTRACEA. Bl. The second family of Lamellibranchiata, Bl. the
shells of which are described as of a compact texture, sub-symmetrical;
with the hinge rather complex; one single, sub-central, muscular
impression, without any traces of palleal impression. This family
corresponds with the Pectenides of Lamarck, and part of the genus
Ostrea in the system of Linnæus. It contains the genera Spondylus,
Plicatula, Hinnites, Pecten, Pedum, Lima.
SUB-SPIRAL. Not sufficiently spiral to form a complete volution.
SUBULA. Bl. (_An awl._) A generic name under which M. De Blainville
includes TEREBRA maculata, Auct. f. 428, together with nearly all the
species of Terebra, enumerated by Lamarck and other authors; only
leaving in the latter genus those species, which being more bulbous, or
ventricose, nearly resemble Buccinum in general form. These last
mentioned species, such as Terebra buccinoidea, (fig. 247) have been
formed into a new genus by Mr. Gray, under the name Bullia. If both
these genera were adopted, the genus Terebra would be extinct.
SUBULATE. (_Subula_, an awl.) A term applied to shells which are long
and pointed as in Terebra. Fig. 427, 428.
SUCCINEA. Drap. (_Succinum_, amber.) _Fam._ Colimacea, Lam. Limacinea,
Bl. _Sub-genus_, Cochlohydra, Fer.--_Descr._ Ovate, rather elongated;
aperture large, entire, longitudinal; spire short; outer lip thin,
continuous with the thin, sharp-edged columella; inner lip spread over
a part of the body-whorl.--_Obs._ The shells belonging to this genus of
partly amphibious mollusca, are distinguished from Limnæa by not having
a fold on the columella The S. amphibia is of a bright amber colour.
Fig. 265, 266. Temperate and tropical climates.
SULCATED. (SULCATUS, lat.) Having grooves or furrows.
SULCI. Grooves or furrows.
SUTURE. (_Sutura_, lat.) A seam, stitch, joining together. Applied
particularly to the line which marks the joining of the whorls of the
spire. The suture is distinguished as _simple_, as in most cases; or
_double_, when accompanied by a parallel groove close to it;
_marginated_, when produced into a ledge by the matter which fills up
and covers it; _obsolete_, when it is filled up so as not to be
visible, as in the case of Ancillaria.
SYLVICOLA. Humph. CYCLOSTOMA, Lam.
SYMMETRICAL, ([Greek: sun], _syn_, similar; [Greek: metron], _metron_,
proportion.) Both sides alike. Although the term is used thus as one of
distinction, it is to be observed that no shells are strictly and
perfectly symmetrical; even in the Nautilus, the apex verges in a
slight degree towards one side of the shell. Two kinds of univalve are
symmetrical, or nearly so; 1st. Those which are symmetrically
convolute, as the Nautilacea and the Ammonacea, which are spiral; 2nd.
Those which are not spiral, but simply conical, as the patelliform
shells. Bivalves belonging to the Brachiopoda are also symmetrical.
_Ex._ Patella, fig. 229. Ammonites, fig. 478.
SYMPHYNOTA. Lea. A genus of Nayades, in which Mr. Lea proposed to
include species of the genus UNIO, the valves of which are connate, or
united at the dorsal margin. We believe that this distinction, as a
genus, has been abandoned by its author. The fact is, that all the
Uniones are Symphynotæ when in a young state. In Unio Alatus, (fig.
147) and Dipsas plicatus, (fig. 142) it will be observed that the
valves have not separated at the dorsal edge, but are broken lower
down.
TAPADA. (Gray. Turton. p. 127.) A division of the genus HELIX,
containing HELIX aperta, Auct. or the Tapada snail.
TAPES. Schum. PULLASTRA. Sow.?
TECTUS. Montf. A genus composed of species of the genus Trochus, having
elevated, conical spires, and columella notched or truncated by a
spiral fold. Fig. 359. Trochus maculatus, presents an example.
TELEBOIS. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
TELESCOPIUM. Montf. CERITHIUM Telescopium, Auct. fig. 378.
TELLINA. Linn. _Fam._ Nymphacea, Lam. Conchacea, Bl.--_Descr._
Sub-equivalve, inequilateral, compressed, rounded anteriorly, slightly
beaked or angulated posteriorly, the posterior ventral margin having a
flexuosity; hinge with two cardinal and generally two lateral teeth in
each valve; muscular impressions, two in each valve, remote; palleal
impression with a large sinus.--_Obs._ The fold or bending in the
posterior margin distinguishes this genus from others which it nearly
resembles. It is composed of some bivalves of great beauty and variety,
which are found in nearly all climates. Fig. 105, T. radiata, 106, T.
lingua-felis.
TELLINIDES. Lam. _Fam._ Nymphacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Sub-equivalve,
inequilateral, transverse, compressed, rounded anteriorly, slightly
beaked or angulated posteriorly; hinge with two cardinal teeth in each
valve, and one lateral tooth in one valve, very near the cardinal
teeth. Muscular impressions two, distant, palleal impression with a
large sinus. _Obs._ This genus is distinguished from Tellina in having
but one lateral tooth near the cardinal teeth. Fig. 107, T. rosea.
Tropical.
TENUIPEDES. (_Tenuis_, slender; _pedes_, feet.) The second section of
the order Conchifera Dimyaria, divided into the families Mactracea,
Corbulacea, Lithophagidæ, Nymphacea.
TERACLITA. Schum. CONIA, Auct.
TEREBELLUM. Lam. (_Terebra_, an augur?) _Fam._ Convolutæ, Lam.
Angyostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Smooth, slender, oblong, sub-cylindrical;
spire obtuse, short, sometimes hidden; (Seraphs, Montf.) aperture long,
narrow posteriorly, wider anteriorly; outer lip slightly thickened,
truncated, unconnected at the base with the columella; inner lip thin,
smooth, nearly straight, spread over a portion of the body-whorl,
continued in a ridge above the sutures of the spire.--_Obs._ Montfort
has separated the fossil species with hidden spires, under the name
Seraphs. (T. convolutum, Lam.) Only one recent species is known, of
which there are several varieties, one spotted, one marked in
sub-spiral lines, another in patches. It is brought from the East
Indies. Fig. 451, T. convolutum; 452, T. subulatum.
TEREBRA. (_An augur, a piercer._) _Fam._ Purpurifera, Lam.
Entomostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Subulate, elongated, pointed, turrited;
spire long, consisting of numerous whorls; aperture small terminating
in a short, reflected canal; outer lip thin; columella tortuous;
operculum horny. The recent species are mostly tropical.--_Obs._ Nearly
all the species enumerated by Lamarck and other authors are included by
De Blainville in his genus Subula; those few species which that
conchologist left in the present genus, being shorter and more
ventricose than the others, approximate in shape to some of the
Buccina, and are distinguished by Mr. Gray under the generic name
Bullia. It seems strange, that De Blainville, being convinced of the
necessity of separating the two groups, and consequently applying a new
generic term to one of them, should have given that term to the larger
number and the more typical species of the Lamarckian genus. Fig. 427,
Bullia vittata. (Terebra.) Fig. 428, Terebra maculata. (Subula.)
TEREBRALIA. Sw. A genus of "Cerithinæ," Sw. thus described: "Outer lip
much dilated, generally uniting at its base to the inner lip; leaving a
round perforation at the base of the pillar; channel truncate;
operculum round: palustre. Mart. f. 1472." Sw. p. 315.
TEREBRATING SHELLS. (_Terebro_, to pierce.) Shells which reside in
holes pierced in rocks, wood, &c. by means of some corrosive secretion
of the animal. _Ex._ Pholas, Teredo, &c.
TEREBRATULA. Brug. (_Terebrans_, bored.) _Fam._ Brachiopoda,
Lam.--_Order._ Palliobranchiata, Bl.--_Descr._ Inequivalve,
equilateral, oval or sub-trigonal, ventricose or compressed, attached
by a tendon passing through an opening in the dorsal, or upper and
larger valve, the umbo of which advances beyond that of the other
valve; hinge destitute of a ligament, with two teeth in the dorsal
valve, locked into corresponding cavities in the ventral, or lower
valve, and with two curious processes originating at the umbo of the
lower valve, presenting, in some species, the appearance of fine
winding tape, advancing towards the front of the valve, and again
receding to the centre, where the ends unite; muscular impressions two,
placed near the centre of each valve.--_Obs._ The Terebratulæ are
included in the genus Anomia in the system of Linnæus. The recent
species are not very numerous--they are found in all climates. The
fossil species are more numerous than the recent ones, occurring in the
secondary and tertiary formations. T. Psittacea, fig. 202.
TEREDINA. (From Teredo.) _Fam._ Tubicolæ, Lam. Adesmacea, Bl.--_Descr._
Valves equal, inequilateral, with prominent umbones, as it were
soldered to the outside of the rounded end of a shelly tube, of which
they form a part; aperture of the tube partly divided; a flat accessary
valve placed on the umbones.--_Obs._ This genus, which is only known in
a fossil state, is distinguished from Teredo, by the valves being fixed
on the tube, and the tube being closed at one extremity. Fig. 46, 47,
T. personata.
TEREDO. Auct. (_A piercer._) _Fam._ Tubicolæ, Lam. Adesmacea,
Bl.--_Descr._ Valves equal, inequilateral; presenting when closed, an
orbicular figure, with a large angular opening in front, and a rounded
opening at the back; placed at the anterior extremity of an irregular,
flexuous, elongated tube, open at both ends; the anterior termination
divided in a double aperture opened and closed at the will of the
animal by two opercula.--_Obs._ This genus of Molluscous Animals, is
remarkable for boring holes in wood, which are filled by their
elongated tubes, and give it a honey-comb appearance. Fig. 48. T.
Navalis. Fig. 49, a piece of bored wood.
TERMINAL. When the umbones of a bivalve shell are placed at or near the
extremity, as in Mytilus, fig. 158, Pinna, fig. 162, they are said to
be _terminal_. The same term is also applied to the nucleus of an
operculum, when it forms an extreme point, or is close to one of the
edges.
TESSELLATED. (Wrought in chequer-work). A term applied to the colouring
of shells, when arranged in regular defined patches like a tessellated
pavement.
TESTACELLA. (_Testa_, a shell.) _Fam._ Limacinea, Lam. and
Bl.--_Descr._ Haliotoid, compressed; aperture wide, oblique; columella
flat, oblique; spire short, flat, consisting of less than two
whorls.--_Obs._ This shell which is extremely small compared with the
animal, is placed upon its back, near the posterior extremity. The
animal is found in some of our gardens, and very much resembles the
common garden slug. Fig. 261, T. Haliotoidea.
TESTACEOUS. (_Testa_, a shell.) Shelly. Testaceous Mollusca, are soft
animals having shells. A testaceous operculum is one composed of shelly
matter.
TETRACERA. Bl. The first family of the order Polybranchiata, Bl.
containing no genera of testaceous mollusca.
TEXTILIA. Sw. A sub-genus of Conus, consisting of Conus bullatus, &c.
Sw. Malac. p. 312.
TEXTULARIA. Defr. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
THALAMUS. Montf. A genus described as resembling Conilites, but curved
and granulated.
THALLEPUS. Sw. A genus of "Aplysianiæ," Sw. thus described: "Body more
slender and fusiform;" (than Aplysia,) "the lobes of the mantle short,
and incapable of being used for swimming; tentacula two, large, ear
shaped; eyes not visible. T. ornatus, _Sw._ Sp. Nov." Sw. p. 359.
THALLICERA. Sw. A generic name under which Swainson distinguishes
AMPULLARIA Avellana, Auct.
THECIDIUM. (_Thecas_, a box.) _Fam._ Brachiopoda, Lam. _Order_,
Palliobranchiata, Bl.--_Descr._ Lower valve concave, sub-trigonal, with
the umbo produced into a triangular, slightly incurved beak, and with
two short, pointed processes advancing from beneath the umbones; upper
valve flat, rounded square, with a short, blunt appendage, formed to
fit between the tooth-like process of the other valve; its inner
surface ornamented with symmetrically curved ridges.
THECOSOMATA. Bl. The first family of the order Aporobranchiata, Bl.
containing the genera Hyalæa, Cleodora, Cymbulia, Pyrgo.
THELICONUS. Sw. A sub-genus of Conus. Lardn. Cyclop. Malac. p. 312.
THELIDOMUS. Sw. A generic name under which Swainson has described a
division of the genus Helix, and which he has also used to designate a
genus in the family of "Rotellinæ," founded upon an aggregate of loose
particles collected and agglutinated in a spiral form by the larva of
an insect. Sw. Malac. p. 330 and 353.
THEMEON. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
THEODOXUS. Montf. A division of the genus Nerita. Fig. 324, N.
virginea.
THETIS. Sow. (_A sea nymph._) A genus of fossil shells, described as
resembling Mactra, but not having the internal ligament, and having
several small, acuminated, cardinal teeth, but no lateral teeth. It
resembles Tellina in some degree, but has not the posterior fold.
THIARELLA. Sw. A sub-genus of Mitra, Lardn. Cyclop. Malac. p. 319.
THRACIA. Leach. _Fam._ Lithophagidæ, Lam. Pyloridea, Bl. A genus
described as intermediate between Anatina, and Mya, and in some degree
resembling Corbula. T. corbuloides, fig. 93.
THUNDER-STONES. One of the vulgar appellations which have been applied
to shells of the genus Belemnites.
THIATYRA. Leach. A genus composed of AMPHIDESMA _flexuosa_, Lam. and
similar species, belonging more properly to the genus LUCINA.
TIARA. Sw. A genus of "Mitranæ," Sw. thus described: "Aperture narrow,
linear, or of equal breadth throughout; outer lip and base of the body
whorl contracted, the former generally striated; an internal canal at
the upper part of the aperture; shell (typically) turrited, and equally
fusiform; representing the _Muricidæ_ and Cymbiola." Sw. Malac. p. 319.
The principal difference between Tiara and Mitra appears to be that in
the latter, the aperture is more linear and contracted in the centre.
Mitra Episcopalis is an example.
TINOPORUS. Montf. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
TIRANITES. Montf. A division of the genus Baculites.
TOMELLA. Sw. A genus of "Pleurotominæ," Sw. thus described: "Fusiform,
smooth; the spire of very few whorls, and not longer than the channel;
inner lip with a thick callosity at the top; the slit short and wide;
lineata, En. Méth. 440, f. 2, clavicularis, Ib. f. 4. filosa. En. Méth.
440, f. 6. lineolata. Ib. f. 11." Sw. p. 314.
TOMOGERUS. Montf. ANASTOMA, Auct. Fig. 471.
TONICHIA. Gray. Syn. B. M. p. 126. A genus composed of those species of
Chiton which have the margin smooth.
TORNATELLA. Auct. _Fam._ Plicacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Oval, spirally
grooved; spire short, rather obtuse, consisting of few whorls; aperture
long, narrow, rounded anteriorly; outer lip simple; inner lip thin,
slightly spread, columella spiral, incrassated, confluent with the
outer lip. The recent species are few. Several fossil species occur in
London Clay, Inferior Oolite and Calcaire-grossièr. Monoptygma, Lea,
resembles this genus, but has a fold on the inner lip. Fig. 343, T.
solidula.
TORTUOUS. (_Tortuosus_) Twisted. This adjective is sometimes applied as
a specific name; as Arca tortuosa.
TRACHELIPODA. Lam. ([Greek: trachêlos], _trachelos_, a neck; [Greek:
poda], _poda_, foot.) The third order of the class Mollusca, in the
system of Lamarck. The trachelipodous mollusca are described as having
the posterior part of the body spirally twisted and separated from the
foot; always enveloped in a shell. The foot is free, flat, attached to
the base of the neck. Shell spiral, and enclosing the animal when at
rest. This order contains the families, Colimacea, Lymnacea, Melaniana,
Peristomiana, Neritacea, Janthinea, Macrostomata, Scalariana, Plicacea,
Canalifera, Alata, Purpurifera, Columellaria, Convolutæ. The genera
belonging to these families, are represented in the plates, fig. 264,
to 462.
TRANSVERSE. (Crosswise.) A shell is said to be transverse, when its
width is greater than its length, that is, when it is longer from one
side to the other than from the umbones to the ventral margins. The
term is applied by some authors to express the direction of the lines
of growth in bivalve shells, and the spiral lines in spiral shells. See
CONCENTRIC.
TRAPEZIUM. Meg. CYPRICARDIA, Lam.
TRAPEZIFORM, or
TRAPEZOID. ([Greek: trapezion], _trapezion_, _trapezium_; [Greek:
eidos], _eidos_, form.) Having four unequal and unparallel sides. _Ex._
Cucullæa, fig. 133.
TRIBULUS. Klein. RICINULA, Lam.
TRICHOTROPIS. Brod. and Sow. ([Greek: Trichos], _trichos_, hair;
[Greek: tropis] _tropis_, keel.) _Fam._ Purpurifera, Lam.--_Descr._
Turbinated, keeled, thin, umbilicated; aperture longer than the spire,
entire; columella obliquely truncated; outer lip thin, sharp; epidermis
horny, produced into long hairs at the angles of the shell; operculum
horny, with the nucleus lateral.--_Obs._ Although the shells of this
genus have something of the shape of Turbo, they are distinguished from
that genus at once by the thinness of the shell. They are also known
from Buccinum, by the absence of a canal. Only two or three species are
known, which belong to the Northern and Arctic Oceans. T. bicarinata,
fig. 429.
TRIDACNA. Auct. _Fam._ Tridacnacea, Lam. Chamacea, Bl.--_Descr._
Equivalve, regular, inequilateral, radiately ribbed, adorned on the
ribs with vaulted foliations, waved at the margins, with a large,
anterior hiatus close to the umbones, for the passage of a large
byssus, by which the animal fixes itself to marine substances; hinge
with a partly external ligament; two laminar teeth in one valve, one in
the other.--_Obs._ The beautiful shells composing this genus are of a
delicate white colour, tinged with buff. One species, the T. gigas,
attains a remarkable size, measuring from two to three feet across, and
weighing five hundred pounds. Tridacna is distinguished from Hippopus
by the large opening in the hinge. T. elongata, fig. 157.
TRIDACNACEA. Lam. A family belonging to the first section of the order
Conchifera Dimyaria, Lam. described as regular, equivalve, solid, and
which are remarkable for the deeply sinuated or undulated ventral
margin. This family contains the genera:
1. HIPPOPUS. Valves closed at or near the hinge. Fig. 156.
2. TRIDACNA. An hiatus near the hinge. Fig. 157.
TRIDENTATE. (_Tridentatus_.) Having three teeth, or salient points.
_Ex._ Hyalæa tridentata, fig. 226.
TRIGONA. Schum.? Triangular species of CYTHEREA, such as C. lævigata,
Triplas corbicula, ventricosa, bicolor, &c. Fig. 117 _b._
TRIGONACEA. Lam. A family belonging to the order Conchifera Dimyaria,
containing the genera Trigonia and Castalia, the latter of which ought
to be removed to the Nayades. Fig. 139, 140.
TRIGONAL. Triangular, having three sides.
TRIGONELLA. Humph. MACTRA, Auct.
TRIGONIA. Brug. ([Greek: trigônon], _trigonon_, triangular.) _Fam._
Trigonata, Lam. Camacea, Bl.--_Descr._ Equivalve, inequilateral,
transverse, sub-trigonal, costated and granulated without, pearly and
iridescent within, denticulated on the inner margin, rounded
anteriorly, truncated posteriorly; hinge with four oblong, compressed,
diverging teeth in one valve, receiving between their grooved sides,
two similar teeth in the other; ligament external, thick; muscular
impressions two in each valve.--_Obs._ Only one recent species of this
marine genus is known, the T. pectinata, which comes from New Holland;
and was formerly so rare, that a much worn odd valve has been sold for
a considerable sum. It is of a brilliant pearly texture within, tinged
with purple or golden brown. Fossil species occur in Lias, upper and
lower Oolite, and Green-sand. T. Pectinata, fig. 139.
TRIGONOSEMUS. König. A genus composed of species of TEREBRATULA, Auct.
which have one valve produced into a beak, perforated, or as it were
truncated at the apex. T. lyra, fig. 208, differing from Terebratula
lyra, Lam.
TRIGONOSTOMA. A sub-genus of Helix, with a trigonal aperture. Gray's
Turton, p. 139.
TRIGONOTRETA. König. A genus composed of species of Terebratula, Auct.
which have the hinge of the larger valve produced into a triangular
disc, divided by a triangular foramen in the centre. Spirifer, Sowerby,
belongs to this genus. Fig. 214, 215.
TRILOBATE. ([Greek: Treis] three; [Greek: lobos], division, lobe.)
Divided into three lobes or principal parts. Ex. Malleus, Fig. 165.
TRILOCULINA. D'Orbigny. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
TRIPARTITE. (_Tripartitus_) composed of or divided into three separate
parts.
TRIPHORA, or TRISTOMA. Deshayes. A genus composed of small reversed
species of CERITHIUM, Auct. which have the anterior canal closed at the
anterior of the aperture, but opened at the extremity, and a small
tubular opening on the upper part of the whorls, making three openings
on the body whorl. This genus stands in the same relation to Cerithium
as the Typhis to Murex. Fig. 375 in the old plates, and fig. in the new
plates.
TRIPLEX. Humph. MUREX, Linn.
TRIPLODON. Spix. HYRIA, Auct.
TRIPTERA. Quoy et Gaimard, CUVIERA, Fer. Described in the Voyage de la
Coquille, and represented as a molluscous animal destitute of a shell.
TRIQUETRA. Bl. Triangular species of VENUS Auct.
TRISIS. Oken. ARCA tortuosa, Auct.
TRISTOMA. Described as TRIPHORA.
TRITON. Auct. _Fam._ Siphonostomata, Bl. Canalifera, Lam.--_Descr._
Oblong or oval, thick, ribbed or tuberculated, with discontinuous
varices placed at irregular distances; spire prominent, mammillated;
aperture round or oval, terminating anteriorly in a generally long,
slightly raised canal; columellar lip granulated or denticulated; outer
lip thickened, reflected, generally denticulated within; epidermis
rough; operculum horny.--_Obs._ However nearly allied the Tritons may
appear to be to the Murices and Ranellæ there are still to be traced in
the shells of each of those genera, several constant and well marked
distinctions, by which they maybe at once recognized. In the Ranellæ,
the varices run in two rows along the spire; in the Murices, they form
three or more rows; but in the Tritons, they do not follow each other,
_i.e._ they do not occur in the same part of each volution. The large
species of Triton, are sometimes used as trumpets. The Tritons are
brought from the Mediterranean, Ceylon, the East and West Indies, and
South Seas. Fig. 398 to 401.
TRITONIDEA. Sw. A genus of "Buccininæ," Sw. thus described: "Shell
bucciniform, but the basal half is narrowed, and the middle more or
less ventricose; spire and aperture equal. Pillar at the base with two
or three obtuse and very transverse plaits, not well defined; outer lip
internally crenated and with a superior siphon; inner lip wanting, or
rudimentary." This genus is the same as the one first distinguished by
Mr. Gray under the name of Pollia. We do not regret the discovery made
by Mr. Swainson of that name being previously occupied for a genus of
Lepidopterous Insects. Fig. 415, represents Tritonidea articularis.
(Pollia, Gray.)
TRIVIA. Gray. A genus composed of those small species of CYPRÆA, Auct.
which are characterized by small ridges on the dorsal surface, and have
the anterior of the columella internally concave and ribbed. C.
Pediculus. Auct. fig. 449, 450.
TROCHATELLA. Sw. A sub-genus of Helicinæ, consisting of those species
which are acute and trochiform.
TROCHIA. Sw. A genus of the family Buccininæ, thus described: "shape
intermediate between Purpura and Buccinum; whorls separated by a deep
groove; inner lip when young, depressed, when adult, thickened, convex
and striated; basal canal very small. T. sulcatus. E. M. 422. f. 4."
Sw. Malac. p. 300.
TROCHIDON. Sw. A sub-genus of "Trochinæ," Sw. Lardn. Cyclop. Malac. p.
351.
TROCHILÆA. Sw.? PILEOLUS, Auct.
TROCHURUS. Humph. MONODONTA. Lam.
TROCHUS. Auct. (_A top._) _Fam._ Turbinacea, Lam. Goniostomata,
Bl.--_Descr._ Turbinated, thick, striated, tuberculated or smooth;
spire elevated, conical, consisting of numerous whorls; under surface
discoid; aperture more or less depressed in an oblique direction,
generally angular; columella arcuated, more or less prominent at its
union with the outer lip, contiguous to the axis of the shell;
operculum horny, orbicular, with numerous whorls.--_Obs._ Lamarck
distinguished this genus from Turbo by the general form, which is more
conical, and the aperture, which is angulated, while that of Turbo is
rounded. Monodonta or Odontis is only separated on account of the notch
at the termination of the columella. But these characters glide so
imperceptibly from one genus to the other, that there is no line of
demarcation to be found but in the operculum. Accordingly, Sowerby (in
Gen. of Sh. 37.) has stated his reasons for considering as Trochi, all
the species which have horny opercula; and as Turbines, all those which
have testaceous opercula. Fig. 358 to 360. The Trochi are found in all
climates.
TROPÆUM. Sow. CRIOCERATITES.
TROPHON. Montf. MUREX Magellanicus, Auct. and several other species
which belong more properly to Fusus than to Murex.
TRUMPET SHELL. A large species of Triton (variegatus), used by natives
of South Sea Islands as a trumpet, to call warriors and herds of cattle
together. It answers the purpose tolerably well, producing a very
sonorous blast.
TRUNCATED. (_truncus_, cut short.) Terminating abruptly, as it were cut
short. _Ex._ Solenensis, fig. 60.
TRUNCATULANA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
TRUNCATELLA. Risso. A genus composed of several species of land shells
which have been confounded by some authors with Cyclostoma. The genus
is thus described: "Shell turriculated, cylindrical, decollated or
truncated at the apex, no epidermis; aperture oval, short, with lips
continuous, simple." _Ex._ Truncatella truncatulina, Lowe, Zool. Journ.
t. 5. p. 80. Our plates, fig. 520, 521. It is found on the shores of
Britain, the Mediterranean, and West Indies.
TUBA. Lea. A genus of small fossil shells, described as resembling
Turbo, but with the aperture more like that of Melania. Lea. Contrib.
Geol.
TUBERCLE. (_tuberculus._) A small swelling excrescence, or knob.
TUBERCULATED. Having a number of small lumps or pimples, as Turrilites,
fig. 483.
TUBICINELLA. Lam. (_Tubicen_, a trumpeter.) _Order_, Sessile
Cirripedes, Lam.--_Descr._ A cylindrical tube, composed of six
elongated valves jointed together side by side, striated
longitudinally, surrounded by concentric rings; aperture circular,
enclosed by an operculum of four valves, placed perpendicularly in an
epiphragm.--_Obs._ The Tubicinellæ are found with nearly the whole
shell buried in the thick skin of the whale. T. Balænarum.
TUBICOLARIA. Lam. (_Tuba_, a tube; _cola_, an inhabitant.) A family of
the order Conchifera Dimyaria, Lam. consisting of bivalves soldered as
it were within, or connected with, a testaceous tube. The genera
contained in this family may be thus distinguished.
1. ASPERGILLUM. Valves fixed, tube perforated and fringed. Fig. 44.
2. TEREDINA. Valves fixed, prominent, tube closed at one end.
Fossil. Fig. 46, 47.
3. CLAVAGELLA. One valve fixed, the other free. Fig. 45.
4. TEREDO. Both valves free, tube open at both ends. Fig. 48, 49.
5. FISTULANA. Valves free, tube closed at one end, straight, long.
Fig. 53, 54.
6. GASTROCHÆNA. Valves free, tube closed at one end, short,
bulbous. Fig. 52.
TUBIVALVES. Bl. Shells composed of two valves connected in a tube,
corresponding with the family Tubicolæ of Lamarck.
TULIPARIA. Sw. A sub-genus of "Coronaxis," Sw. Lardn. Cyclop. Malac. p.
311.
TURBINACEA. Bl. The sixth family of Polythalamacea, Bl. containing the
genera Cibicides and Rosallites, microscopic Foraminifera.
TURBINACEA. Lam. A family of the first section of the order
Trachelipoda, Lam. containing the following genera.
1. SOLARIUM. With umbilicus reaching to the apex; including
_Bifrontia_ and _Orbis_. Fig. 353 to 356.
2. ROTELLA. A callosity on the under side. Fig. 357.
3. PHASIANELLA. Oval; operculum shelly. Fig. 367.
4. PLANAXIS. Columellar lip flat; aperture notched. Fig. 365.
5. TURBO. Top-shaped; mouth generally round; operculum shelly. Fig.
368.
6. TROCHUS. Top-shaped; mouth generally angulated; operculum horny,
consisting of many whorls; including _Elenchus_. Fig. 358, 359,
361.
7. MARGARITA. Operculum horny, consisting of few whorls; pearly.
Fig. 362.
8. LITTORINA. Similar, not pearly; including _Assiminnea_. Fig.
363, 363*.
9. PHORUS. Attaching dead shells, stones, &c. Fig. 360.
10. MONODONTA or ODONTIS. A notch and prominent point at the lower
part of the aperture. Fig. 366.
11. LACUNA. With an umbilicus. Fig. 364.
12. TURRITELLA. Elongated, screw-shaped. Fig. 369 to 371.
TURBINATED. (_Turbo_, a top,) Top-shaped. The term is applied generally
to those shells which are large at one extremity, and narrow to a point
at the other. _Ex._ Trochus, fig. 358; Turbinellus, fig. 382.
TURBINELLUS. Auct. (_A little top._) _Fam._ Canalifera, Lam.
Siphonostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Turbinated, thick, wide near the apex,
generally tuberculated; spire short, depressed, mammillated; aperture
rather narrow, terminating anteriorly in an open canal; outer lip
thickened within; columella having from three to five prominent,
compressed, transverse folds. The species of this genus are mostly
tropical.--_Obs._ The Turbinelli are a well marked genus of marine
shells, the species of which are numerous. No fossil species are known.
The genus Cancellaria makes the nearest approach to Turbinellus in some
characters, but may be distinguished by the roundness of its form, the
raised lines inside the outer lip, and the obliquity of the folds on
the columella. Fig. 382 to 384.
TURBO. Auct. (_A top._) _Fam._ Cricostomata, Bl. Turbinacea,
Lam.--_Descr._ Turbinated, solid, ventricose, generally grooved or
tuberculated; spire short, pointed; aperture generally rounded,
sub-effuse anteriorly, entire; operculum shelly, solid, incrassated on
the outer side, horny and sub-spiral on the inner side. The Turbines
are mostly tropical.--_Obs._ The only certain means of distinguishing
this extensive genus of marine shells from Trochus, is the operculum,
which in the latter genus is horny, spiral, and composed of a great
number of whorls. The Trochi, however, are in general more conical, and
flatter at the under side of the whorls, and this constitutes Lamarck's
distinction between the genera. T. setosus, fig. 368.
TURGID. (_Turgidus._) Puffed up, swollen, inflated. This term is
applied synonymously with Ventricose.
TURRICULA. Humph. MELANIA, Auct.
TURRICULACEA. Bl. The seventh family of the Order Polythalamacea, Bl.
containing the genus Turrilites, fig. 483.
TURRILITES. Lam. (_Turris_, a tower; [Greek: lithos], a stone.) _Fam._
Turriculacea, Lam. Ammonacea, Bl.--_Descr._ Chambered, turrited,
spiral; septa sinuous and lobate, perforated by a siphon; aperture
rounded, with the outer lip expanded. This genus, which is
distinguished from the other Ammonacea by having the spire produced,
_i. e._ not being convolute, consists of several species, occurring
only in chalk-marl. Fig. 483.
TURRIS. Montf. A genus composed of those species of MITRA, Auct. which
have the whorls angulated, with the aperture lengthened and undulated.
TURRITED. The spire of an univalve shell is said to be _turrited_ when
the whorls of which it is composed are regulated so as to have the
appearance of little turrets rising above each other, as in Mitra, fig.
431.
TURRITELLA. Lam. (_A little tower._) _Fam._ Turbinacea, Lam.
Cricostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Turrited, elongated, generally grooved
spirally; spire pointed, consisting of numerous whorls; aperture
rounded or angulated; inner and outer lips thin, confluent anteriorly;
operculum horny.--_Obs._ The shells composing this well defined genus,
are commonly called screws, a name to which the spiral grooves of most
of the species seems to entitle them. Fig. 370, T. imbricata.
TYMPANOSTOMA. Schum. (_Timbrel mouth._) POTAMIS, Brongn.
TYPHIS. Montf. A genus composed of MUREX tubifer, Auct. and other
similar species, which have the canal closed and a perforated tube
between each varix on the angulated part of the whorls. Besides the
fossil species originally described, there are now five species known,
which are figured in part 200, of the Conchological Illustrations by
the Author. Typhis tubifer, fig. 397.
ULTIMUS. Montf. (_The last._) A genus composed of OVULUM gibbosum,
Auct. fig. 443, and other species in which the canals are not
distinctly defined, nor elongated. This fanciful name is given to the
genus on account of its being described in the last page of the book.
UMBILICATED. (_Umbilicatus._) Having an umbilicus, as Nautilus
umbilicatus.
UMBILICUS. (_A navel._) The hollow formed in spiral shells when the
inner side of the volutions do not join each other, so that the axis is
hollow. The umbilicus is marked with the letter u in Helix algira, fig.
279. The term is also used to express any small, neat, rounded hollow.
UMBO. (_The boss of a buckler or shield._) The point of a bivalve shell
above the hinge, which constitutes the apex or nucleus of each valve,
from which the longitudinal rays diverge, and the lines of growth,
commencing at the minutest circle, descend in gradually enlarging
concentric layers to the outer margin. The umbones will be marked with
the letter _u_, in Cytherea, fig. 117.
UMBRELLA. (_A little shade._) _Fam._ Semiphyllidiana, Lam. Patelloidea,
Bl.--_Descr._ Patelliform, sub-orbicular, compressed, rather irregular;
apex slightly raised, placed near the centre; margin acute; internal
surface with a central, callous, coloured disc, surrounded by a
continuous, irregular muscular impression.--_Obs._ This genus is known
from Patella, by its continuous muscular impression. It is commonly
called the Chinese Umbrella shell. There are but two species at present
known; the U. Mediterranea, and the U. Indica, fig. 233.
UNDATED. (_Unda_, a wave.) Waved.
UNDULATED. (_Undulatus._) Minutely waved.
UNGUICULATED. (_Unguis_, a nail or hoof.) An unguiculated operculum is
one in which the layers are disposed laterally, and the nucleus
constitutes part of the outer edge.
UNGULINA. Daud. (_Ungula_, a nail or claw.) _Fam._ Mactracea, Lam.
Conchacea, Bl.--_Descr._ Equivalve, sub-orbicular, sub-equilateral,
with margins entire, simple, closed all round; hinge with one short,
sub-divided cardinal tooth in each valve, and a very minute additional
tooth in one valve, an oblong ligamentary pit divided into two
portions, one of which receives the cartilage, the external ligament is
immediately below the umbones; muscular impressions, two in each valve,
oblong; impression of the mantle entire. U. transversa, fig. 88. Coast
of Africa.
UNI-AURICULATED. Having one AURICLE. See AURICULATED.
UNICORNUS. Montf. MONOCEROS, Auct.
UNIO. (_A pearl._) _Fam._ Nayades, Lam. Submytilacea, Bl.--_Descr._
Inequilateral, equivalve, regular, free, pearly within, covered by a
smooth epidermis without; umbones prominent, generally corroded;
muscular impressions two in each valve, lateral, distant; the anterior
composed of several small divisions; hinge varying in age, species, and
individuals.--_Obs._ The above description is framed so as to include
all the genera of the Lamarckian Nayades, together with Castalia, which
are placed in the family Trigonacea, they are all fresh-water shells,
commonly called fresh-water muscles. The distinctions of the various
genera into which they have been divided, will be found in their
respective places, and under the name Nayades. They are all represented
in figures 140 to 152. Of these fig. 145 to 148, are more generally
considered as forming the genus Unio.
UNIOPSIS. Sw. A sub-genus of Alasmodon. Sw. p. 382.
UNIVALVE. (_Unus_, one; _valva_, valve.) A shell consisting of a single
piece, as distinguished from Bivalves and Multivalves, which are
composed of two or more principal pieces. Spiral shells having an
operculum, are called sub-bivalves by some authors.
UPPER-VALVE. The free valve in attached bivalves.
UVIGERINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
VAGINA. Megerle. SOLEN _vagina_, Auct.
VAGINULA. (_A little sheath, the husk of corn._) _Class_, Pteropoda,
Lam.--_Descr._ Pyramidal, slightly inflated in the centre, thin,
fragile; aperture oblong, with the edges turned slightly
outwards.--_Obs._ The little shells of this genus, which are only known
in a fossil state, differ from Cuvieria in being pointed at the
extremity. Found in the tertiary beds of Bordeaux. V. Daudinii, fig.
225.
VAGINULINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
VALVATA. Müll. _Fam._ Peristomata, Lam. Cricostomata, Bl.--_Descr._
Thin, turbinated; spire short, composed of from three to six rounded
whorls; aperture circular; peritreme acute, entire; operculum horny,
spiral.--_Obs._ This genus of small shells resembles Cyclostoma, from
which the recent species may be known by the horny texture of the
external surface, being fresh-water shells. The fossils of course
belong to the fresh-water formations. V. piscinalis, fig. 322. Europe
and North America.
VALVES. (_Valva_, a door, a folding piece.) The two pieces composing a
bivalve shell, which close upon each other, turning upon a hinge
consisting of a ligament, cartilage, and teeth. See BIVALVE,
MULTIVALVE, and UNIVALVE.
VALVULINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
VARIX. (_A swelling vein._) A varix is formed on the outer surface of a
spiral shell, by the thickened, reflected edge of a former aperture,
after fresh deposits of testaceous matter have increased the size by
adding to the growth of the shell beyond it. In this manner there are
frequently many varices, or edges of former apertures, in various parts
of the spire and the body whorl. They are sometimes placed at regular
distances from each other, as in Harpa, fig. 419; sometimes
_continuous_, as in Ranella, fig. 394; sometimes _discontinuous_, as in
Triton, fig. 398; sometimes _ramose_, as in Murex, fig. 395; sometimes
_simple_, as in Scalaria, fig. 351; sometimes _spinose_, as in Murex
spinosus. The term _varix_ has also been applied to any swelling ridge,
such as that on the lower part of the columella of Ancillaria, fig.
456.
VELATES. Montf. NERITINA perversa, Auct. Fig. 326.
VELLETIA. Gray? A genus described as differing from ANCYLUS in being
dextral. VELLETIA lacustris, ANCYLUS lacustris, Auct. fig. Sowerby Gen.
fig. 2.
VELUTINA. Auct. _Fam._ Macrostomata, Lam.--_Descr._ Sub-globose,
covered with a velvety epidermis; spire short, composed of two rapidly
enlarged ventricose whorls; aperture large, sub-ovate; peritreme thin,
entire, separated from the last whorl; columella tortuous,
thin.--_Obs._ This shell does not resemble any other genus in the
family. Fig. 337. Northern Seas.
VENERICARDIA. Lam. A genus composed of the shorter species of Cardita.
VENERIRUPIS. Lam. (From _Venus_ and _rupis_, a rock.) The oblong
species of Venus Auct. which live in cavities of rocks and stones. This
genus is united by Sowerby with some other species of Venus under the
name Pullastra. V. Vulgaris, fig. 97.
VENTRAL. (_Venter_, the belly.) The margin of a bivalve shell opposite
the hinge. The under valve in Brachiopodous bivalves is the ventral
valve. The ventral surface of an univalve spiral shell is that which
faces the observer when the aperture is placed towards him. The ventral
part of the whorls of symmetrical convolute shells, is the inner part,
that which is nearest to the spire.
VENTRAL SIPHON. In symmetrical convolute univalves, is one placed near
the inner edge of the whorls.
VENTRICOSE. (_Ventricosus._) Swelled, rounded out, (_bombé Fr._) as
Harpa ventricosa, fig. 419.
VENUS. Auct. (_Goddess of Beauty._) _Fam._ Marine Conchacea, Lam.
Conchacea, Bl.--_Descr._ Equivalve, inequilateral, sub-globose,
sub-ovate, transverse, externally rugose, striated, ribbed, cancellated
or smooth; margins entire, simple, close; hinge with three more or less
distinct cardinal teeth, diverging from the umbones in each valve;
muscular impressions two, lateral, distant; palleal impressions
sinuated posteriorly; ligament external.--_Obs._ This extensive genus,
including some bivalves of splendour and beauty, justifying the name
given to it, may be known from Cytherea by the absence of a lateral
tooth, which is found near the cardinal teeth in the latter. Artemis is
distinguished not only by its beautiful form, but by the deep angular
sinus in the palleal impression. Fig. 119, 119 a. Found mostly in
temperate and tropical climates.
VERMETUS. Adanson. _Fam._ Scalariana, Lam. Cricostomata, Bl.--_Descr._
Spiral at the apex, irregularly twisted towards the aperture; aperture
round, small.--_Obs._ This shell resembles the Serpulæ in general
appearance, although it is regularly spiral near the apex. The animal
is known to be a true mollusc, rather nearly allied to that of the
genus Dentalium, which is also placed wrongly in the Lamarckian system.
Vermetus Lumbricalis, fig. 345. Coast of Africa.
VERMICULAR. (_Vermicularis._) Worm-shaped, tubular, serpentine. _Ex._
Vermilia triquetra, fig. 7.
VERMICULARIA. Lam. VERMETUS, Adanson; afterwards VERMETUS, Lam.
VERMILIA. Lam. A genus composed of species of Serpula, which are
attached by the whole length of the shell, no part being free. Vermilia
triquetra, fig. 7.
VERTEBRALINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
VERTEX. Apex.
VERTIGO. Müll. _Fam._ Colimacea, Lam.--_Descr._ Cylindrically fusiform,
sinistral, hyaline; aperture marginated, sinuated, denticulated on the
inner edge; peristome sub-reflected.--_Obs._ This genus of minute land
shells, resembles Pupa, but is a reversed, hyaline shell. Vertigo
pusilla, fig. 293. Europe.
VERRUCA. Schum. CLITIA, Leach.
VESICA. Sw. A sub-genus of Bulinus, Sw. p. 360.
VEXILLA. Sw. A genus of "Nassinæ," Sw. thus described: "General shape
of _Purpura_, the inner lip flattened and depressed; the outer, when
adult, thickened, inflected and toothed; aperture wide; picta _Sw._
Chem. pl. 157, f. 1504-5." Sw. Malac. p. 300.
VIRGULINA. D'Orb. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
VITRELLA. Sw. A sub-genus of "Bullinæ," Sw. Lardn. Cyclop. Malac. p.
360.
VITRINA. Drap. (_Vitreus_, glassy.) _Fam._ Limacinea, Lam. and
Bl.--_Descr._ Ovate, thin, glassy, fragile; spire short; last whorl
large; aperture wide, transverse; peritreme simple; columella spiral,
linear.--_Obs._ This genus of land-shells is not known in a fossil
state. The recent species are found among moss and grass, in shady
situations. De Ferussac has divided this genus into Helicolimax, fig.
263, and Helixarion, fig. 262.
VITULARIA. Sw. A genus of "Muricinæ," Sw. thus described: "General
habit of _Muricidea_, but the inner lip is depressed and flattened as
in the _Purpurinæ_; varices simple, nearly obsolete. Tuberculata, Sw.
En. M. 419. fig. 1. (_Murex vitulinus_, Auct.)" Sw. p. 297.
VIVIPARA. A generic name given by Montfort, and retained by some
authors for PALUDINA, Lam. on account of the animals being
_viviparous_, i. e. the young being perfectly formed before they leave
the ovaries.
VIVIPAROUS. See VIVIPARA.
VOLUTA. Auct. (_Volvo_, to revolve.) _Fam._ Columellaria, Lam.
Angyostomata, Bl.--_Descr._ Sub-ovate, rather angulated, thick,
generally tuberculated, smooth; spire short, conical, with a
mammillated apex; aperture generally angulated, large, terminating
anteriorly in a deep notch; columella smooth, with several plaits, of
which the lowest is the largest; outer lip thickened within.--_Obs._
The genus Voluta, as left by Linnæus, is only characterized by the
folds on the columella, and includes many shells which, although they
agree in this respect with the genus, are yet quite opposite to each
other in all other characters. Thus the Auriculæ, which are land
shells, and have the aperture entire, are mixed up with others which
are marine, and have a canal, as Turbinellæ, and the Fasciolariæ, and
others which have merely a notch, as the true Volutes. This genus, as
it is circumscribed at present, includes a great number of beautiful
shells, most of which are rich in colouring. CYMBA and MELO have been
separated by Mr. Broderip from the genus VOLUTA of Lamarck, for reasons
stated in their respective descriptions. Fig. 443.
VOLVARIA. Lam. (_Volva_, a shuttle.) _Fam._ Columellaria,
Lam.--_Descr._ Cylindrical, convolute, spirally striated; spire very
short, nearly hidden; aperture narrow, as long as the whole shell;
columella with three oblique plaits; outer lip dentated.--_Obs._ The
Volvaria are only known in a fossil state, and resemble some species of
Bulla in general form, but are distinguished by the plaits on the
columella. Fig. 439, V. concinna.
VOLUTELLA. Sw. (_A little volute._) A genus composed of those species
of MARGINELLA, Auct. which have the spire concealed, and the aperture
smooth within. Fig. 438, PERSICULA of Schumacher.
VOLUTILITHES. Sw. (_Voluta_, and [Greek: lithos], _lithos_, a stone.) A
genus composed of some fossil species of Voluta, which have the plaits
on the pillar generally numerous, indistinct, and sometimes wanting
altogether, with a pointed spire. Fig. 436, V. spinosa.
VOLUTION. See WHORL.
VORTICIALIS. Lam. A genus of microscopic Foraminifera.
VULSELLA. Lam. (_A little tongue._) _Fam._ Ostracea, Lau. Margaritacea,
Bl.--_Descr._ Equivalve, irregular, longitudinal, compressed, oblong;
umbones separated by a slight area in both valves; hinge with a large
pit in the centre, containing the cartilage, the ligament being spread
over the areas; muscular impressions, one on each valve, sub-central,
oblong.--_Obs._ This genus differs from Ostræa in the equality of the
valves, and in having a hollow pit in the hinge for the cartilage.
Vulsella lingulata, fig. 185.
WATERING-POT. Aspergillum, fig. 44, commonly so called on account of
the resemblance of its perforated termination to that of the spout of a
watering-pot.
WENTLE TRAP. Scalaria pretiosa, commonly so called.
WHORL. A complete turn or revolution round the imaginary axis of a
spiral shell. The last whorl is called the _body-whorl_. The whorls are
described as _non-contiguous_, when they do not touch each other;
_continuous_, in the opposite case. _Depressed_ when they are flat.
They are _angulated_, _heeled_, or coronated; _distinct_, or
indistinct. They are sometimes, as in Cypræa, hidden by the last whorl.
XYLOPHAGA. Sow. ([Greek: xulon], _zylon_, wood; [Greek: phagô],
_phago_, to eat.) _Fam._ Tubiscolæ, Lam.--_Descr._ Equivalve, globose,
closed at the back; with a large, angular hiatus in front; hinge with a
small curved tooth advancing from beneath the umbones in each
valve.--_Obs._ This shell, which is found in a cylindrical cavity,
eaten in wood by the animal, resembles Teredo, but has not the shelly
tube, nor the posterior hiatus. X. dorsalis, fig. 50, 51.
XYLOTRYA. Leach. XYLOPHAGA, Sow.
ZONITES. Montf. A genus formed of Helix Algira, and other similar
species with depressed spires and large umbilici; included in the
sub-genus Helicella. Fig. 279.
ZUA. Leach. A genus described as differing from Bulinus in having a
polished epidermis, and a thickened, not reflected lip. Zua lubrica, B.
lubricus, Auct.
ZURAMA. Leach. A sub-genus of Helix. H. pulchella, Auct. Gray's Turton,
p. 41.
* * * * *
EXPLANATION OF PLATES,
AND SYSTEMATIC VIEW OF THE
LAMARCKIAN ARRANGEMENT.
_Class_, ANNELIDES.
_Order_, SEDENTARIA.
_Fam._ Dorsalia.
FIG.
1. Siliquaria anguina. Agathirses, Montf.
_Fam._ Maldania.
2. Dentalium octogonum.
3. Pharetrium fragile, with the outer tube broken.
_Fam._ Serpulacea.
4. Serpula bicarinata.
5. Spirorbis Nautiloides, on sea-weed.
6. Galeolaria decumbens, on a Conia.
7. Vermilia triquetra.
8. Spiroglyphus, on a portion of Patella.
9. Magilus antiquus, old shell. Campulotus, Guild. (from Guerin.)
10. The same, in a young state.
11. Leptoconchus striatus.
12. Stylifer astericola.
13. The same, in a portion of Star-fish.
_Class_, CIRRIPEDES.
_Order_, SESSILE CIRRIPEDES
14. Tubicinella Balænarum.
15. Coronula Testudinaria. Chelonobia, Leach, Astrolepas, Klein.
16. ---- Balænaris. Cetopirus, Ranz.
17. ---- diadema. Diadema, Ranz.
18. Chthalamus, Ranz. (from Blainville.)
19. Platylepas pulchra, Leach. One valve separate, showing the inside.
20. Clitia Verruca, Leach. Octhosia, Ranz. Verruca, Schum.
21. Conia porosa. Teraclita, Schum.
22. Elminius Leachii.
23. Catophragmus imbricatus, (from Sowerby's Genera.)
24. Octomeris angulosus, (from Sow. Gen.)
25. Balanus tintinnabulum.
26. ---- Montagui. Acasta, Leach.
27. ---- galeatus, Conoplæa, Say.
28. Creusia gregaria. _b._ showing the internal structure.
29. Nobia grandis.
30. Savignium crenatum. }
}
31. Pyrgoma cancellata. } Pyrgoma, Auct.
}
32. Adna Anglicum. }
}
33. Megatrema semicostata.}
_Order_, PEDUNCULATED CIRRIPEDES.
34. Pentelasmis lævis. Antifa, Lam. a. anterior.
35. Scalpellum vulgare.
36. Smilium Peronii.
37. Pollicipes polymeus. Ramphidoma, Schum.
37*. Pollicipes mitellus. Capitulum, Klein.
38. Brismæus Rhophodius.
39. Lithotrya dorsalis. Absia, Leach, Litholepas, Bl.
40. Ibla Cuvieriana.
41. Heptalasmis Warwickii. Octolasmis, Gray.
42. Cineras vittatus.
43. Otion Cuvieri.
_Class_, CONCHIFERA.
_Order_, C. DIMYARIA.
_Fam._ Tubicolaria.
44. Aspergillum vaginiferum. Penicillus, Brug.
45. Clavagella, a fossil species.
46. Teredina personata.
47. Lignite, pierced by Teredinæ.
48. Teredo navalis; _a_, tube (from Sowerby's Genera.)
49. Wood bored by Teredo.
50. Xylophaga dorsalis. Xylotrya, Leach.
51. The same, in wood.
(This would be more properly placed in Pholadaria.)
52. Gastrochæna Modiolina, in the tube (from Sowerby's Genera.)
53. Fistulana Clava. }
} (From Sowerby's Genera.)
54. Tube of the same. }
_Fam._ Pholadaria.
55. Pholas Dactylus; _a_, plates of the hinge.
56. ---- papyracea. Pholadidæa.
57. Pholadomya Candida.
58. Galeomma Turtoni.
59. Front view of the same.
(Here Xylophaga should be placed, see Tubicolaria.)
_Fam._ Solenacea.
60. Solen ensis. Ensis, Schum. Ensatella, Sw.
61. Solen radiatus. Solenocurtus, Bl. Leguminaria, Schum. Siliqua,
Megerle.
62. Lepton squamosum. (from Turton.)
63. Novaculina gangetica.
64. Glanconome Chinensis.
65. Panopæa Australis. }
} (From Sowerby's Genera.)
66. Hinge of Panopæa Faujasii.}
67. Glycimeris Siliqua.
68. Solenimya Mediterranea.
_Fam._ Myaria.
69. Anatina rostrata. Auriscalpium, Megerle.
70. Anatinella Sibbaldii.
71. Mya truncata.
72. Periploma inæquivalvis. Osteodesma, Desh. _a_, bone of the
hinge, (from Blainville.)
73. Myochama anomioides; lower valve with clavicle, and hinge of
upper valve.
74. External view of the same, attached to a Trigonia.
75. Cleidothærus Chamoides, attached valve.
76. Upper valve of the same, with the clavicle.
_Fam._ Mactracea.
77. Lutraria papyracea. Ligula, Leach. Carinella, Adans.
78. ---- Solenoides. Cutellus ----?
79. Mactra Stultorum.
80. ---- plicataria. Spisula? Gray.
81. ---- Spengleri. Schizodesma, Gray.
82. ---- bicolor. Mulinia, Gray.
83. Gnathodon cuneatus. Clathodon, Conrad.
84. Crassatella rostrata.
85. Amphidesma reticulatum.
86. Erycina plebeja. Mesodesma, Desh.
87. Cuming mutica.
88. Ungulina transversa, (from Sowerby's genera.)
_Fam._ Corbulacea.
89. Corbula nucleus.
90. Pandora rostrata.
_Fam._ Lithophagidæ.
91. Petricola Roccellaria.
92. ---- Carditoidea. Coralliophaga, Bl.
93. Thracia corbuloides.
94. Saxicava rugosa.
95. Hiatella biaperta.
96. Sphænia Binghamii.
97. Venerirupis vulgaris.
_Fam._ Nymphacea.
98. Sanguinolaria rosea. Lobaria, Schum.
99. ---- Diphos. Soletellina, Bl.
100. Psammobia Ferroensis. Gari, Schum.
101. Corbis fimbriata. Fimbria, Megerle.
102. Grateloupia Moulinsii. (from Lea.)
103. Egeria triangulata, (from Lea.)
104. Lucina tigerina.
105. Tellina radiata.
106. ---- lingua-felis; _a_, showing the fold in the ventral
margin.
107. Tellinides rosea.
108. Donax cuneatus.
109. Capsa Braziliensis, young.
110. Astarte Danmoniensis. Crassina, Lam.
Fluviatile Conchacea.
111. Cyclas rivicola. Cornea, Megerle.
112. Pisidium amnicum. Pisum, Megerle.
113. Cyrena fuscata. Corbicula, Megerle.
114. Cyrenoides Dupontia.
115. Potamophila radiata. Galathæa, Lam. _v._ ventral margin.
Marine Conchacea.
116. Cyprina vulgaris. Arctica, Schum.
117. Cythera Meretrix; _e._ escutcheon.
117 _a._ C. Meroe; _Gen._ Meroe.
117 _b._ C. Tripla; _Gen._ Trigona.
117 _c._ C. maculata; _Gen._ Chione.
117 _d._ C. Castrensis; _Gen._ Circe.
118. Artemis lincta; _s_, sinus in the Palleal impression.
119. Venus cancellata. Antigona, Schum. _a._ anterior; _p._
posterior; _c._ cardinal teeth.
119 _a._ V. Verrucosa. Dosina, Schum.
120. Pullastra Textile.
_Fam._ Cardiacea.
121. Venericardia, recent species, resembling V. planicostata, Lam.
122. Cardium Dionæum. Cardissa, Sw. Hemicardium, Nonnull.
123. ---- angulatum.
123*. ---- Greenlandicum. Aphrodita, Lea, Acardo, Sw.
123**. --- hemicardium. _Gen._ Hemicardum.
124. Cardita calyculata.
125. Cypricardia angulata.
126. Isocardia Moltkiana.
127. Megalodon cucullatus, (from Sow. Min. Con.)
128. Hippagus Isocardioides, (from Lea.)
129. Hippopodium ponderosum, (from Sow. Min. Con.)
130. Pachymya gigas, (from Sow. Min. Con.)
_Fam._ Arcacea.
131. Arca antiquata.
132. Bysso-arca Noæ.
133. Cucullæa auriculifera, (from Sowerby's Genera.)
134. Pectunculus pilosus.
135. Myopara costata, (from Lea.)
136. Crenella.
137. Nucula margaritacea, three views.
138. Solenella Norrissii.
_Fam._ Trigonacea.
139. Trigonia pectinata.
140. Castalia ambigua. Tetraplodon pectinatus, Spix.
_Fam._ Nayades.
141. Alasmodon complanatus, Say. Margaritana, Schum.
142. Dipsas plicatus, Leach. Cristaria, Schum.
143. Hyria corrugata, Lam. Paxyodon, Schum. Triplodon.
144. Syrmatophora, Sow. Prisodon, Schum. Diplodon, Spix.
145. Unio littoralis, Lam. Mysca ovata, Turton.
147. ---- Alatus. Symphynota, Lea.
148. ---- Atratus, Lam. Naia, Sw.
149. Monocondylæa Paraguayana.
150. Iridina elongata. Pleiodon, Conrad. } Platiris, Lea.
}
151. Mycetopus solenoides, D'Orb. Spatha, Lea. }
152. Anodon Cataractus.
_Fam._ Chamacea.
153. Chama Lazarus. Jataronus, Adanson.
154. Diceras perversum, (from Sowerby's Genera.)
155. Etheria semilunata.
_Order_, MONOMYARIA.
_Fam._ Tridacnacea.
156. Hippopus maculatus.
157. Tridacna elongata.
_Fam._ Mytilacea.
158. Mytilus achatinus.
159. ---- polymorphus. Dreissina.
160. Modiola Tulipa.
161. Lithodomus Dactylus.
162. Pinna saccata.
_Fam._ Malleacea.
163. Avicula Hirundo.
164. ---- margaritifera. Meleagrina, Lam.
165. Malleus Vulgaris. Himantopoda, Schum.
166. Perna Ephippium.
167. Catillus Lamarckii. Inoceramus, Sow. (from Blainville.)
168. Crenatula mytoloides. }
}
169. Gervillia aviculoides. } (from Sowerby's Genera.)
}
170. Pulvinites Adansonii. }
_Fam._ Pectinides.
171. Pecten varius. Janera, Schum.
172. ---- Plica. Decadopecten, Rüppell.
173. Hinnites Pusio. Pecten Pusio, Lam.
174. Lima squamosa.
175. Dianchora striata, (from Sow. Min. Con.)
176. Plagiostoma spinosum, (from Sow. Min. Con.)
177. Spondylus Americanus, hinge. (See Frontispiece.)
178. Plicatula gibbosa. Harpax, Parkinson.
179. Pedum Spondyloideum, (from Sow. Gen.)
_Fam._ Ostracea.
180. Ostrea edulis.
181. ---- Folium. Dendostrea, Sw.
182. Gryphæa incurva.
183. Exogyra conica, (from Sow. Min. Con.)
184. Placuna placenta. _Gen._ Placenta, Schum.
185. Vulsella lingulata.
186. Anomia Ephippium.
187. Hinge of the same, with bony process.
188. Hinge, showing the fissure.
189. Placunanomia Cumingii.
190. Hinge of the same, showing the fissure.
191. Hinge of the unattached valve.
192. Mulleria. (from Sow. Gen.)
_Fam._ Rudistis.
193. Sphærulites foliacea. (Radiolites is more conical.)
194. Calceola Sandalina.
196. Birostrites inæquiloba, internal cast of Sphærulites.
197. _a._ Crania personata, dorsal valve; _b._
C. antiquata, interior.
(This would be more properly placed in Brachiopoda.)
198. Hippurites Cornucopia, (from Blainville.)
199. Hipponyx Cornucopia, attached valve.
200. Upper valve of the same.
_Fam._ Brachiopoda.
201. Orbicula lævis.
202. Terebratula Psittacea; _a._ anterior margin.
203. Atrypa reticularis. Trigonotreta, König.
204. Cyrtia exporrecta.
205. Delthyris plycotes, (from Dalman.)
206. Leptæna depressa, Dalman. Producta, Sow. (from Sow. Gen.)
206*. Producta antiquata.
207. Orthis basalis, Dalman. Strophomena, Rafinesque.
208. Trigonosemus Lyra, König.
209. Magas pumilus, Sow.
210. Gypidia conchidium, (from Dalman.)
211. Interior of the large valve of the same. (from Dalman.)
212. Pentamerus Aylesfordii, (from Sow. Min. Con.)
213. ---- lævis.
214. Spirifer trigonalis. }
} Trigonotreta, König, (from Sow. Gen.)
215. ---- dorsatus. }
216. Thecidium recurvirostrum.
(Here should come Crania, see Rudistes.)
217. Pycnodonta radiata, (from Fischer.)
218. Hinge of the same.
219. Lingula Anatina.
_Class_, MOLLUSCA.
_Order_, PTEROPODA.
220. Atlanta helicialis.
221. Cleodora cuspidata.
222. Creseis spinifera.
223. Cuvieria columella.
224. Spiratella limacinea, with animal; Limacella, Lam. Limacina
Cuvier. (from Blainville.)
225. Vaginula Daudinii.
226. Hyalæa tridentata. Archonte, Montf.
_Order_, GASTEROPODA.
_Fam._ Phyllidiana.
227. Chiton spinosus.
228. Chitonellus striatus. (from Sow. Gen.)
229. Patella oculus; _a._ anterior.
230. Patella pellucida. Helcion, Montf. Ansates, Klein.
231. Patelloida Antillarum. Lottia, Gray.
231*. Siphonaria Sipho.
_Fam._ Semiphyllidiana.
232. Pleurobranchus membranaceus.
233. Umbrella indica. Gastroplax, Bl.
_Fam._ Calyptracea.
234. Calyptræe Equestris.
235. ---- extinctorium.
236. ---- auriculata.
237. ---- Pileus. Infundibulum, Montf.
238. Side view of the same.
239. Crepidula Porcellana.
240. Capulus ungaricus, two views. Pileopsis, Lam.
241. Emarginula fissura.
242. Parmophorus elongatus. Scutus, Montf.
243. Rimula Blainvillii.
244. Cemoria Flemingii.
245. Fissurella oriens.
246. Ancylus fluviatilis.
_Fam._ Bullæana.
247. Bulla fragilis. Akera, Nonnul.
248. ---- aperta. Bullæa, Lam.
249. ---- aplustre. Aplustre, Schum.
250. ---- Naucum. Atys, Montf.
251. ---- lignaria. Scaphander, Montf.
252. ---- Ampulla.
253. ---- lineata.
_Fam._ Aplysiacea.
254. Aplysia Petersoni.
255. Dolabella Rumphii.
_Fam._ Limacinea.
256. Parmacella calyculata, Cryptella. Webb.
257. Parmacella Olivieri. (from De Ferussac.)
258. ---- palliolum. (from De Ferussac.)
259. Limax antiquorum.
260. Plectophorus corninus.
261. Testacella Haliotoidea.
262. Helixarion, Cuv. }
} Vitrina, Drap. Cobresia, Haubner.
263. Helicolimax pellucida. }
_Order_, TRACHELIPODA.
_Fam._ Colimacea.
_Sub-genera_ of De Fer.
264. Helix brevipes, Drap. Helicophanta.
265. Succinea amphibia. }
} Cochlohydra.
266. ---- patula. Amphibulima, Lam. }
267. Helix hæmastoma. Acarus, }
Montf. }
268. ---- Pomatia. } Helicogena.
}
269. Streptaxis contusa, Gray.}
}
270. Another view of the same.}
271. Anastoma depressum. }
}
272. Another view of the same. }
}
273. Helix nux-denticulata. } Helicodonta.
}
274. Proserpina nitida. }
}
275. Polygyra septemvolva. }
}
276. Another view of the same. }
277. Carocolla Lamarckii. }
} Helicigona.
278. Helix pileus. Geotrochus, Sw. }
279. ---- algira. Zonites, Montf. }
} Helicella.
280. ---- citrina. Naninia, Gray. }
281. ---- epistilum Helicostyla.
282. Bulinus rosaceus; _a._ apex. }
}
283. ---- Guadaloupensis; Bulinulus, }
Leach. } Cochlostyla.
284. ---- Lyonetianus. Gibbus, Montf. }
}
285. ---- lubricus. Cionella, Jeffreys.}
286. Achatina virginea Liguus, Montf. }
} Cochlitoma.
287. Achatinella, Sw. }
288. Polyphemus Glans, Montf. Cochlicopa.
289. Bulinus decollatus, in a young state. Cochlicella.
290. Azeca tridens, Jeffreys. Turbo tridens, } Cochlogena.
Gmelin. }
291. Pupa Uva. }
}
292. Alæa marginata; Jeffreys. }
} Cochlodonta.
293. Vertigo pusilla. }
}
294. Megaspira Ruschenbergiana. }
295. Clausilia Macascarensis; _a_, a break, }
to show the clausium. } Cochlodina.
}
296. Balea fragilis. }
297. Auricula Judæ.
298. ---- coniformis. Conovulum, Lam. Melampus, Montf.
299. Pedipes Adansonii.
299*. Scarabæus imbrium.
300. Chilina Dombeyana.
301. Carychium minimum.
302. Partula Australis.
303. Cyclostoma ferrugineum.
304. ---- Involvulus. Cyclophorus, Montf.
305. Nematura Deltæ.
306. Helicina major.
307. Operculum of the same.
_Fam._ Lymneana.
308. Limnæa stagnalis.
309. ---- auricularia. Radix, Montf.
310. ---- castanea. Physa, Drap.
311. Planorbis corneus.
312. Planaria niteus, (from Lea.)
_Fam._ Melaniana.
313. Melania subulata. Melas, Montf.
314. Melania prærosa and monodontoides. Anculosa, Say.
315. Melanopsis costata. Faunus, Montf.
316. Pirena terebralis.
317. Pasithæa striata, (from Lea.)
_Fam._ Peristomata.
318. Ampullaria fasciata. Amphibola; _a_, aperture.
319. ---- Guinaica. Lanistes, Montf.
320. ---- Cornu-arietis. Ceradotes, Guild.
321. Paludina Bengalensis.
322. Valvata piscinalis.
_Fam._ Neritacea.
323. Navicella elliptica.
324. Neritina virginea. Theodoxus, Montf.
325. ---- spinosa. Clithon, Montf.
326. ---- perversa. Velates, Montf. (from Sow. Gen.)
327. Natica mamilla. Polinices, Montf.
328. ---- lineata.
330. Nerita peloronta. Peloronta, Oken.
331. Neritopsis granosa.
332. Pileolus plicatus.
333. Janthina fragilis.
_Fam._ Macrostomata.
334. Sigaretus concavus.
335. Stomatia Phymotis.
336. Stomatella imbricata.
337. Velutina lævigata. Galericulus, Nonnul.
338. Haliotis rubra, young.
339. ---- tricostalis, Lam. Padollus, Montf.
340. Scissurella elatior, magnified. }
} (from Sow. Gen.)
341. Pleurotomaria reticulata. }
_Fam._ Plicacea.
342. Pyramidella terebellum.
343. Tornatella solidula. Acteon, Montf.
344. Monoptygma elegans. (from Lea.)
_Fam._ Scalariana.
345. Vermetus lumbricalis.
346. Rissoa reticulata.
347. Eulima labiosa.
348. ---- marmorata. Bonellia, Desh.
349. Cirrus nodosus, Sow.
350. Euomphalus pentangulus. (from Sow. Min. Con.)
351. Scalaria Pallassii. Aciona, Leach.
352. Delphinula laciniata.
_Fam._ Turbinacea.
353. Solarium perspectivum.
354. ---- Bifrons. Bifrontia and Omalaxis, Desh.
355. Orbis Rotella. (from Lea.)
356. Another view of the same.
357. Rotella vestiaria, Pitonellus, Montf.
358. Trochus stellaris, Lam. Calcar, Montf. Turbo, Sow.
359. ---- maculatus. Tectus, Montf.
360. ---- agglutinans. Phorus.
361. ---- Pharaonis. Clauculus, Montf.
362. Margarita tæniata.
363. Littorina vulgaris.
363*. Assiminea Grayana.
364. Lacuna pallidula.
365. Planaxis sulcata.
366. Monodonta labeo; Odontis, Sow.
367. Phasianella variegata.
368. Turbo setosus. Marmarostoma, Sw.
369. Tuba striata. (from Lea.)
370. Turritella imbricata.
371. Monotygma, Gray.
_Fam._ Canalifera.
372. Cerithium Aluco, front.
374. Nerinea Goodhallii. (from Geol. Trans.)
375. Triphora plicata. (from Deshayes.)
376. End view of the same.
377. Potamis muricata. Pyrazus, Montf. Tympanostomata, Schum.
378. Cerithium Telescopium. _Gen._ Telescopium.
379. Pleurotoma Babylonia; _a, a_, extremities of the axis.
381. ---- strombiformis, Clavatula, Lam.
382. Turbinella corniger. Scolymis, Sw.
383. ---- polygona. Polygonum, Schum.
384. Spirillus. _Gen._ Pyrella, Sw. Turbinella spirillus, Auct.
385. Cancellaria reticulata.
386. Fasciolaria Trapezium.
387. Fusus Colus; _a_, anterior of the aperture; p, posterior.
388. Pyrula perversa. Fulgur, Montf.
389. ---- papyracea. Rapanus, Schum. Bulbus, Humph. Rapella, Sw.
390. ---- Ficus. Ficula, Sw.
391. Struthiolaria straminea.
393. Ranella ranina. Apollon, Montf.
394. ---- neglecta. Bufo, Montf.
395. Murex inflatus. Chicoreus, Montf.
396. ---- haustellum. Brontes, Montf.
397. Typhis tubifer. (from Deshayes.)
398. Triton pilearis.
399. ---- cutaceus. Aquillus, Montf.
400. ---- Lotorium. Lotorium, Montf.
401. ---- anus. Persona, Montf.
_Fam._ Alatæ.
402. Rostellaria curvirostrum.
403. ---- columbaria. Hippochrenes, Montf. (from Sow. Gen.)
404. ---- Pes-pelicani. Aporrhais, Petiver.
405. Pteroceras aurantiacum.
406. Strombus pugilis.
_Fam._ Purpurifera.
407. Cassidaria echinophora. Morio, Montf.
408. Side view of the outer lip, to shew the canal.
409. Oniscia Oniscus. Cassidara.
410. Cassis tuberosa, reduced.
411. ---- erinaceus. Cassidea, Sw.
412. ---- testiculus. Cypræcassis, Stutchbury.
413. Ricinula horrida. Sistrum, Montf.
414. Purpura persica.
415. Tritonidea (_Pollia_, Gray.) articularis.
416. Phos senticosa.
417. Monoceros crassilabrum.
418. Concholepas Peruviana.
419. Harpa ventricosa.
420. Dolium maculatum.
421. Buccinum undatum; _a_, anterior of the aperture; _p_, posterior.
422. ---- papillosum. Alectrion, Montf.
423. Nassa arcularia.
424. ---- neritoidea. Cyclops, Montf.
425. Cyllene, Gray.
426. Eburna Zeylanica.
427. Bullia vittata.
428. Terebra maculata. Subula, Bl.
429. Trichotropis bicarinata.
_Fam._ Columellata.
430. Columbella mercatoria.
431. Mitra plicaria; _c_, termination of the columella.
432. Conohelix marmorata.
433. Voluta Vespertilio. Cymbiola, Sw.
434. Cymba porcina.
435. Melo Æthiopicus.
436. Volutilithes spinosus.
437. Marginella Glabella. Glabella, Sw. Cucumis, Klein.
438. ---- persicula. Volutella, Sw. Persicula, Schum.
439. Volvaria concinna.
_Fam._ Convolutæ.
440. Ovulum Ovum.
441. ---- verrucosum. Calpurnus, Montf.
442. ---- Volva. Radius, Montf.
443. ---- gibbosum. Ultimus, Montf.
444. Cypræovulum capense.
445. Cypræa arabica, back.
446. The same, front.
447. Cypræa Algoensis. Luponia, Gray, front.
449. ---- Pediculus. Trivia, Gray, back.
450. The same, front.
451. Terebellum convolutum. Seraphs, Montf.
452. ---- subulatum, front.
454. Erato Mangeriæ.
455. Ancillaria glabrata. Anolax, Brongn.
456. ---- cinnamonea.
457. Oliva Maura.
458. ---- subulata. Hiatula, Sw.
459. Conus nocturnus. Rhombus, Montf.
460. ---- Nussatella. Hermes, Montf.
461. ---- Textile. Cylinder, Montf.
462. ---- geographus. Rollus, Montf.
_Order._ CEPHALOPODA.
_First Division._ Polythalamous Cephalopoda.
_Fam._ Orthocerata.
463. Amplexus coralloides. (from Sow. Min. Con.)
464. Orthoceratites annulatus.
465. Nodosaria æqualis.
466. Belemnites, with the outer coat broken to shew the alveole.
467. ---- portion of the alveole separated.
468. ---- hastatus. Hibolithes, Montf. (from Blainville.)
469. Conularia quadrisulcata.
470. Conilites pyramidatus, (from Blainville.)
_Fam._ Lituacea.
471. Spirula Peronii.
_Fam._ Nautilacea.
472. Nummulites buticularis, outside. Helicites, Bl. Camerina, Brookes.
473. The same inside, to shew the chambers.
474. Nautilus pompilius, young. See Frontispiece.
475. Simplegas sulcata.
476. Endosiphonites. (from Camb. Philos. Trans.)
_Fam._ Ammonacea.
477. Ammonoceras. (from Blainville.)
478. Ammonites; _a_, break in the shell, showing the sinuous septa.
479. Orbulites crassus. Globulites, Nonnul. Angulites, Montf. reduced.
479*. ---- discus. Aganides, Montf.
480. Goniatites striatus.
481. Scaphites æqualis.
482. Crioceratites Duvallii.
483. Turrilites tuberculatus.
484. Baculites Faujasii. Portion near the centre.
484*. Hamites cylindricus; _a_, internal cast of part of the shell;
_b_, hollow external cast of the remainder.
_Second Division._ Monothalamous Cephalopoda.
485. Argonauta Argo.
486. Bellerophon tenuifasciata. (from Sow. Gen.)
487. The same, shewing the dorsal keel.
_Order._ HETEROPODA.
488. Carinaria Mediterranea.
* * * * *
EXPLANATION OF THE NEW PLATES.
_Order._ SESSILE CIRRIPEDES.
489. Pyrgoma monticularia. _Sub-genus_, Daracia, Gray, back and
front.
490. The same, in situ.
_Fam._ Myaria.
491. Lyonsia Norvegica. Anatina, Nonnul. Inside view of both valves.
492. Outside, with the valves closed.
493. Næra longirostrum. Anatina longirostris, Lam. Inside of both
valves.
494. Outside, with both valves closed.
495. A smaller species of Næra, shewing the inequality of the valves.
_Fam._ Mactracea.
496. Amphidesma tennis. Abra, Leach.
497. Ervillia nitens.
_Fam._ Corbulacea.
498. Potamomya, of some authors. A fresh-water shell resembling
Corbula. Outside, valves closed.
499. Inside of both valves.
Fluviatile Conchacea.
500. Cyclas amnica. Pera, Leach.
_Fam._ Cardiacea.
501. Cardilia semisulcata. Isocardia semisulcata, Lam. Internal view.
502. External view of the same valve.
503. Cardium apertum. Papyridea, Sw.
504. The same, shewing the umbones.
505. Pleurorynchus, fossil, (from Mineral Conchology.)
_Fam._ Phyllidiana.
506. Chiton fascicularis. Phakellopleura, Guild.
507. ---- amiculatus. Amicula, Gray.
_Fam._ Calyptracea.
508. Scutella, Brod. Internal view.
509. External view of the same.
510. Ancylus, a reversed species, illustrating the genus Velletia,
Gray. Enlarged view.
511. The same, natural size.
512. Pedicularia. Enlarged figure, (copied from Swainson.)
513. The same, natural size, growing on coral.
_Fam._ Colimacea.
514. Achatina? octona. Macrospira, Guild.
515. Stenopus cruentatus, Guild. Under side.
516. ---- lividus.
517. Helix, the aperture covered by the epiphragm.
518. Pupa secale, Drap. Abida, Leach.
519. ---- pagoda. Gonidomus, Sw.
520. Truncatella, enlarged figure.
521. The same, natural size.
522. Auricula caprella. _Gen._ Caprella, Nonnul. Front view.
523. The same, dorsal view.
524. Pupina vitrea.
526. ---- antiquata.
527. ---- Namezii.
528. ---- lubrica. Callia? Gray.
529. Cyclostoma, a pupiform species. Megalomastoma, Guild.
530. ---- Planorbulum. Cyclotus, Guild.
531. ---- a similar species, with the complicated notch at the
posterior part of the aperture. Pterocyclos, Gray.
532. Helicina acutissima, nobis. View of the under side. Trochatella,
Sw.
533. The same in profile.
534. }
}
535. } Strophostoma, Desh. three views.
}
536. }
_Fam._ Peristomata.
537. Paludina impura. Bithinia, Gray?
538. Ampullaria avellana. Thallicera, Sw. Ampullarina?
539. A species of Ampullaria having a thickened ledge on which the
shelly operculum rests. Pachystoma, Guild. changed to
Pachylabra, Sw.
_Fam._ Plicacea.
540. Ringicula, Desh. A fossil species, front view.
541. Back view of the same.
_Fam._ Turbinacea.
542. Turbo nicobaricus. Chrysostoma, Sw.
543. Trochus Iris. Elenchus, Humph.
_Fam._ Purpurifera.
544. Purpura vexilla. _Gen._ Vexilla, Sw.
545. Priamus. Achatina priamus, Auct. The propriety of placing it in
this family will depend upon the correctness of the statement
made by Dr. Beck that this shell is marine, and possesses an
operculum.
546. Purpura crispata. Polytropa, Sw.
547. Pseudoliva plumbea. Gastridium, Sow.
_Fam._ Canalifera.
548. Fusus longevus. Clavalithes, Sw.
549. ---- bulbiformis. Leiostoma, Sw.
550. Pyrella, Sw. Turbinella Spirillus, Auct.
551. Pleurotoma lineata. Tomella, Sw.
552. Pyrula melongena. _Gen._ Myristica, Sw.
553. Murex vitulinus. _Gen._ Vitulina, Sw.
554. Typhis Sowerbii.
555. A brown variety of the same.
556. Typhis Cumingii.
_Fam._ Columellata.
557. Voluta Vexillum. Harpula, Sw.
558. Mitra monodonta. Mitreola, Sw.
559. ---- bicolor. Mitrella, Sw.
560. Columbella nitidella. _Gen._ Nitidella, Sw.
_Fam._ Convolutæ.
561. Oliva volutella. _Gen._ Lamprodoma, Sw.
562. ---- maura.
563. Cypræa Globulus. _Gen._ Globularia, Sw.
564. ---- pulchella, fossil. _Gen._ Cyprædia, Sw.
THE END.
* * * * *
TABLE OF LAMARCK'S CONCHOLOGICAL SYSTEM.
_Classes of
Invertebrated _Orders._ _Families._ _Genera._
Animals._
ANNELIDES. Sedentary _Dorsalia_ Siliquaria.
_Maldania_ Dentalium.
_Serpulacea_ Serpula, Spirorbis,
Galeolaria, Vermilia,
Magilus.
CIRRIPEDES. Sessile Tubicinella, Coronula,
_Multivalve._ Balanus, Acasta, Pyrgoma,
Creusia.
Pedunculated Anatifer, Pollicipes,
Cineras, Otion.
CONCHIFERA Dimyaria _Tubicolaria_ Aspergillum, Clavagella,
_Bivalve._ Fistulana, Septaria, Teredo,
Teredina.
_Pholadaria_ Pholas, Gastrochæna.
_Solenacea_ Solen, Panopæa, Glycimeris.
_Myaria_ Mya, Anatina.
_Mactracea_ Lutraria, Mactra,
Crassatella, Erycina,
Ungulina, Solemya,
Amphidesma.
_Corbulacea_ Corbula, Pandora.
_Lithophagidæ_ Saxicava, Petricola,
Venerirupis.
_Nymphacea_ Sanguinolaria, Psammobia,
Psammotæa, Tellina,
Tellinides, Corbis, Lucina,
Donax, Capsa, Crassina.
_Fluviatile Cyclas, Cyrena, Galathæa.
Conchacea_
_Marine Conchacea_ Cyprina, Cytheræa, Venus,
Venericardia.
_Cardiacea_ Cardium, Cardita,
Cypricardia, Hiatella,
Isocardia.
_Arcacea_ Cucullæa, Arca,
Pectunculus, Nucula.
_Trigonacea_ Trigonia, Castalia.
_Nayades_ Unio, Hyria, Anodon,
Iridina.
_Chamacea_ Diceras, Chama, Etheria.
Monomyaria _Tridacnacea_ Tridacna, Hippopus.
_Mytilacea_ Modiola, Mytilus, Pinna.
_Malleacea_ Crenatula, Perna, Malleus,
Avicula, Meleagrina.
_Pectenides_ Pedum, Lima, Plagiostoma,
Pecten, Plicatula,
Spondylus, Podopsis.
_Ostracea_ Gryphæa, Ostræa, Vulsella,
Placuna, Anomia.
_Rudistes_ Sphærulites, Radiolites,
Calceola, Birostrites,
Discina, Crania.
_Brachiopoda_ Orbicula, Terebratula,
Lingula.
MOLLUSCA Pteropoda Hyalæa, Cleodora, Limacina,
_Univalve._ Cymbulia.
Gasteropoda _Phyllidiana_ Chiton, Chitonellus,
Patella.
_Semiphyllidiana_ Pleurobranchus, Umbrella.
_Calyptracea_ Parmophorus, Emarginula,
Siphonaria, Fissurella,
Pileopsis, Calyptræa,
Crepidula, Ancylus.
_Bulleana_ Bulla, Bullæa.
_Aplysiacea_ Aplysia, Dolabella.
_Limacinea_ Parmacella, Limax,
Testacella, Vitrina.
Trachellipoda _Colimacea_ Helix, Carocolla, Anastoma,
Helicina, Pupa, Clausilia,
Bulinus, Achatina, Succinea,
Auricula, Cyclostoma.
_Lymneana_ Planorbis, Physa, Lymnæa.
_Melaniana_ Melania, Melanopsis, Pirena.
_Peristomata_ Valvata, Paludina,
Ampullaria.
_Neritacea_ Navicella, Neritina, Nerita,
Natica, Janthina.
_Macrostomata_ Stomatia, Stomatella,
Haliotis.
_Plicacea_ Tornatella, Pyramidella.
_Scalariana_ Vermetus, Scalaria,
Delphinula.
_Turbinacea_ Solarium, Rotella, Trochus,
Monodonta, Turbo, Planaxis,
Phasianella, Turitella.
_Canalifera_ Cerithium, Pleurotoma,
Turbinella, Cancellaria,
Fasciolaria, Fusus, Pyrula,
Ranella, Murex, Triton.
_Alata_ Rostellaria, Strombus,
Pteroceras.
_Purpurifera_ Cassidaria, Cassis,
Ricinula, Purpura,
Monoceros, Concholepas,
Harpa, Dolium, Buccinum,
Eburna, Terebra.
_Columellata_ Columbella, Mitra, Voluta,
Marginella, Volvaria.
_Convoluta_ Ovulum, Cypræa, Oliva,
Ancillaria, Conus.
Polythalamous _Orthocerata_ Belemnites, Orthoceras,
Cephalopoda Nodosaria, Hippurites,
Conilites.
_Lituacea_ Spirula, Spirolina, Lituola.
_Cristacea_ Renulina, Cristellaria,
Orbiculina.
_Spherulacea_ Miliola, Gyrogona, Melonia,
(Microscopic.)
_Radiolacea_ Rotalites, Lenticulina,
Placentula, (Micros.)
_Nautilacea_ Discorbites, Siderolites,
Polystomella, Vorticialis,
Nummilites, Nautilus.
_Ammonacea_ Ammonites, Ammonoceras,
Turrilites, Baculites.
Monothalamous Argonauta.
Cephalopoda
Heteropoda Carinaria.
* * * * *
TABLE OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL SYSTEM OF DE BLAINVILLE.
Key.
1 = TYPE MALACOZOARIA
2 = SUB-TYPE MALENTOZOARIA
CLASSES
A = CEPHALOPHORA
B = PARACEPHOLOPHORA DIOICA
C = PARACEPHALOPHORA MONOICA
D = PARACEPHALOPHORA HERMAPHRODITA
E = ACEPHALOPHORA
F = NEMATOPODA
G = POLYPLAXIPHORA
ORDERS
a = Cellulacea
b = Polyphalamacea
c = Siphonobranchiata
d = Asiphonibranchiata
e = Pulmobranchiata
f = Chismobranchiata
g = Monopleurobranchiata
h = Aporobranchiata
i = Nucleobranchiata
j = Cirrobranchiata
k = Cervicobranchiata
l = Scutibranchiata
m = Palliobranchiata
n = Rudistes
o = Lamellibranchiata
_Classes._ _Families._ _Genera._
_Orders._
{_Planulacea_ Renulina, Peneroplis.
{
{ a {_Sphærulacea_ {Miliola, Pollontes, Melonia,
{ { {Saracenaria, Textularia.
{ {
{ {_Nummulacea_ {Nummulites, Orbiculina,
{ {Helicites, Placentula,
{ {Vorticialis, Siderolites.
{ A {
{ { {_Orthocerata_ {Belemnites, Conularia,
{ { { {Conilites, Orthoceras,
{ { { {Baculites.
{ { {
{ { {_Lituacea_ {Icthysarcolites, Lituola,
{ { { {Spirula, Spirolina,
{ { { {Hamites, Ammonoceras.
{ { {
{ { b {_Cristacea_ Crepidulina, Oreas, Linthuris.
{ {
{ {_Ammonacea_ {Discorbis, Scaphites,
{ { {Ammonites, Simplegas.
{ {
{ {_Nautilacea_ {Polystomelle, Nautilus,
{ { {Lenticulina.
{ {
{ {_Turbinacea_ Cibicides, Rotalia.
{ {
{ {_Turriculacea_ Turrilites.
{
{ {Pleurotoma, Rostellaria,
{ {Fusus, Pyrula,
{ {_Siphonostomata_ {Fasciolaria, Turbinella,
{ { {Columbella, Triton,
{ { {Struthiolaria, Ranella,
{ { {Murex.
{ {
{ { {Cerithium, Pyrena, Melanopsis,
{ { {Planaxis, Subula, Terebra,
{ { {Eburna, Buccinum, Harpa,
{ { c {_Entomostomata_ {Dolium, Cassis, Cassidaria,
{ { { {Ricinula, Cancellaria,
{ { { {Purpura, Concholepas, Terebra,
{ { { {Mitra
{ { {
{_Univalves_ { { { {Strombus, Conus, Terebellum,
{ { { {_Angyostomata_ {Oliva, Ancillaria, Voluta,
{ { { {Mitra, Marginella, Volvaria,
{ { { {Cypræa, Ovulum.
{ { {
{ { { {_Goniostomata_ Solarium, Trochus.
{ { B { {
{ { { { {Monodonta, Turbo,
{ { { { {Pleurotomaria, Littorina,
{ { { { {Delphinula, Cyclostoma,
{ { { {_Cricostomata_ {Paludina, Valvata, Scalaria,
{ { { { {Proto, Turitella, Vermetus,
{ { { { {Siliquaria, Magilus.
{ { { {
{ { { d {_Hemicyclostomata_{Nerita, Neritina, Clithon,
{ { { {Velates, Pileolus, Navicella,
{ { { {Natica.
{ { {
{ { {_Ellipsostomata_ {Helicina, Ampullaria, Melania,
{ { { {Rissoa, Phasianella,
{ { { {Pleurocerus.
{ { {
{ { {_Oxystomata_ Janthina.
{ {
{ { {_Limnacea_ Limnæa, Physa, Planorbis.
{ { {
{ { {_Auriculacea_ {Auricula, Pedipes, Tornatella,
{ { C e { {Tomogerus, Pyramidella.
{ { {
{ { { {Succinea, Bulinus, Achatina,
{ { { _Limacinea_ {Clausilia, Pupa, Partula,
{ { {Helix, Vitrina, Testacella,
{ { {Parmacella, Limacella, Limax.
{ {
{ { f {Sigaretus, Cryptostomata,
{ { {Stomatella, Velutina.
{ {
1 { { {_Sub-aplysiaca_ Pleurobranchus.
{ { {
{ { g {_Aplysiaca_ Aplysia, Dolabella.
{ { {
{ { {_Patelloidea_ Umbrella, Siphonaria.
{ { {
{ { {_Akera_ Bulla, Bellerophon, Sormetus.
{ {
{ { h _Thecosomata_ Hyalæa, Cleodora, Cymbulia.
{ {
{ { {_Nectopoda_ Carinaria.
{ { i {
{ { {_Pteropoda_ {Atlanta, Spiratella,
{ { {Argonauta.
{ {
{ { { j Dentalium.
{ { {
{ { { {_Retifera_ Patella.
{ { D { k {
{ { {_Branchifera_ {Fissurella, Emarginula,
{ { {Parmophorus.
{ {
{ { {_Otides_ Haliotis, Ancylus.
{ { l {
{ {_Calyptracea_ {Crepidula, Calyptræa,
{ {Capulus, Hipponyx, Notrema.
{
{ {Lingula, Terebratula,
{ { {Strophomena, Dianchora,
{ { m {Thecidium, Plagiostoma,
{ { {Podopsis, Orbicula, Crania.
{ {
{ { n {Sphærulites, Hippurites,
{ { {Radiolites, Birostrites,
{ { {Calceola.
{_Bivalves_ E {
{ {_Ostracea_ {Anomia, Placuna, Ostræa,
{ { {Gryphæ.
{ {
{ {_Sub-ostracea_ {Spondylus, Plicatula,,
{ { {Hinnites, Pecten, Pedum,,
{ { {Lima.
{ {
{ { {Vulsella, Malleus, Avicula,
{ {_Margaritacea_ {Perna, Crenatula, Inoceramus,
{ { {Catillus, Pulvinites,
{ { {Gervillia.
{ {
{ {_Mytilacea_ Pinna, Mytilus.
{ {
{ {_Arcacea_ Arca, Pectunculus, Nucula.
{ {
{ {_Sub-mytilacea_ Anodon, Unio, Cardita.
{ {
{ {_Chamacea_ {Chama, Diceras, Etheria,
{ { {Tridacna, Hippopus,
{ { {Isocardium, Trigonia.
{ {
{ o { {Cardium, Donax, Tellina,
{ {Lucina, Cyclas, Cyprina,
{_Conchacea_ {Mactra, Erycina, Crassatella,
{ {Venerirupis, Venus,
{ {Coralliophaga, Clotho,
{ {Corbula, Sphænia, Ungulina.
{
{ {Pandora, Anatina, Thracia,
{ {Mya, Lutricola, Psammocola,
{ {Soletellina, Sanguinolaria,
{_Pylorides_ {Solenocurtus, Solen, Solemya,
{ {Panopæa, Glycimeris,
{ {Saxicava, Byssomya,
{ {Rhomboides, Gastrochæna,
{ {Clavagella, Aspergillum
{
{_Adesmacea_ {Pholas, Teredina, Teredo,
{Fristulana, Septaria.
{_Lepadicea_ {Gymnolepas, Pentalepas,
{ {Polylepas, Litholepas.
{ F {
{ {_Balanidea_ {Balanus, Acasta, Octhosia,
2 _Multivalves_{ {Conia, Creusia, Pyrgoma,
{ {Chthalamis, Coronula,
{ {Chelnobia, Cetopirus,
{ {Diadema, Tubicinella.
{
{ G _Seriales_ {Chiton, Chitonellus.
[Illustration: Fig. 1 to 33.]
[Illustration: Fig. 34 to 59.]
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[Illustration: Fig. 79 to 100.]
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the spirit of life.
"Every individual of the Falcon and Owl Families would make a PERFECT
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HAVE CERTAINLY NEVER BEEN EQUALLED EVEN BY GOULD AND AUDUBON."
_Ornithologist's Text Book._
"The author has been most successful, especially in the larger birds,
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* * * * *
_Just Published, in Imperial 8vo. price, Coloured, £1 5s. Plain, 16s._
Part I
OF THE
THESAURUS CONCHYLIORUM,
BY
G. B. SOWERBY, JUN.
Containing descriptions of all the species hitherto known of the following
Genera of SHELLS; Helicina, Pupina, Rostellaria, Aporrhais, Struthiolaria
and Strombus, accompanied by 300 highly finished coloured engravings.
This work is commenced, and will be continued on a more extensive,
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extensive conchological library, or of consulting a variety of books for
the purpose of identifying species. IT WILL FORM A COMPLETE CONCHOLOGICAL
LIBRARY IN ITSELF.
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in miscellaneous works, and voyages; the difficulty of obtaining such
works, or of naming species without them, and the confusion of Synonymes
which has been the result, are facts which prove the importance of the
present undertaking. The facilities enjoyed by the author, in having access
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information respecting the localities of subjects by those who have sought
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English. The figures of average sized shells will be reduced to half the
real diameter; those of larger size will be still further reduced; and
those of small size will be represented of the natural dimensions. The size
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* * * * *
THE
CONCHOLOGICAL ILLUSTRATIONS,
_Or, figures of hitherto unfigured recent Shells, Part 1 to 200_,
PRICE, 1S. 6D. EACH,
May now be had with Indices complete. None of the Genera contained in this
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* * * * *
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* * * * *
CORRECTIONS MADE TO PRINTED TEXT
ANOMIA: "sub-equilateral" corrected from "sub-equilaternal"
ARGONAUTA: "Cephalopoda" corrected from "Cepholopoda"
ib. "the Argonaut is the testaceous part" corrected from "... Agonaut ..."
HALIOTIS: "oblique" corrected from "obilque"
POLYLEPAS: "lepas, rock." corrected from "lepas, Linn."
RHINODOMUS: "No internal groove" corrected from "... grove"
65. "Panopæa Australis" corrected from "... Ausrtalis"
Heading: "Fam. Brachiopoda" corrected from "... Brachipoda"
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