Manual of Conchology, Structural and Systemic; with Illustrations of the Species ...author, 1888 - Gastropoda |
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12 mill Ancillaria Angas aperture aperture white araneosa Australia body-whorl Brazier callus Cape Carpenter Chenu chestnut chestnut spots chocolate cinnamomea color Columbella Conch convex d'Orb dentate denticulated du Mus Ducl Duclos fig Ducros Dunker E. A. Smith elegans elongated Engina Erato fasciole figure fulvous fusiform Gask Gaskoin Gmel Gmelin Gould Gray Habitat unknown Harpa Hinds Icon Illust inch interior of aperture irisans Jour Jouss Jousseaume Kiener Küster last whorl Length Linn lip thickened longitudinally ribbed maculated marginata Marginella Marr Marrat Mazatlan Menke Moll Monogr nivea oblong Oliva Olivella operculum orange-brown outer lip Panama Pease Philippines Plate plicate Proc Redfield Reeve fig reticularis reticulated revolving bands revolving striæ Ricinula rustica Shell ovate Shell smooth slightly sometimes Sowb Sowerby species specimens spire striate suture Swainson synonym synonymy Tryon unfigured Voluta Weinkauff West Indies white band whitish whorls yellowish brown yellowish white zigzag Zool
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Page 4 - SEE what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl, Lying close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! What is it ? a learned man Could give it a clumsy name.
Page 193 - Adams.) Shell bucciniform, longitudinally ribbed ; spire elevated ; aperture rather wide, enlarging below and terminating in a wide anterior sinus; inner lip callous, plicate below ; outer lip not thickened on the margin, plicate within.
Page 142 - Shell thin, acicular, much contracted at the base, yellowish white, whorls 8, 9, flattened, minutely tabled at the suture, ornamented with roundish opaque white spots, below the suture and between the spots two narrow transverse reddish yellow lines one above the other ; the lower having longitudinal lines of the same colour running down, divided with a white band on the centre of last whorl, spire very much lengthened, aperture pear-shaped, peristome thin, sinus at upper part, columella varicose,...
Page 184 - The curious curve of the suture near the posterior angle of the aperture, as if it had been drawn backward, thereby pulling back this angle and curving the last whorl downward, is very peculiar. The form and aspect of the shell, and the structure of the animal, indicate its place to be intermediate between Mitra and Columbella.
Page 173 - ... notes of this species. The following changes should be made in those notes : Delete "poll" and add "div. 45°." "The nuclear whirls in this shell resemble a minute Paludina. The only operculum in the specimens sent was broken in extraction, but appeared to be Nassoid. The sculpture consists of elongate knobs swelling in the middle; with spiral lines hanging as it were from pier to pier, as in a suspension bridge. The aperture is somewhat Columbelloid, the inner and outer lips joining at the suture;...
Page 58 - Animal without tentacles or eyes; mantle with a large frontal lobe; foot not very voluminous, truncate behind, the shield narrow, the sidelobes small and acute.
Page 158 - ... our deeper dredgings, on muddy bottoms. It resembles the shallow water species, C. zonalis (= C. dissimilis, Stimp.), in form, except that it is somewhat shorter and stouter, with the whorls more convex, the columella more excavated, the aperture a little wider and the canal slightly bent back at the tip, but the shell is translucent and glossy, and the color is pure white or pinkish white, except near the apex, where it is tinged with pale brown or pink, in fresh specimens. The surface is smooth,...
Page 119 - ... it is pale brown, closely spotted irregularly with yellowish-white ; epidermis very thin ; apex eroded, remaining whorls 6, flattish or scarcely convex, smooth, separated by a deep suture, giving the spire a slightly turreted aspect ; last whorl feebly angular at the middle, contracted interiorly, and striated around the extremity ; aperture pale lilac within, occupying about three-sevenths of the entire length ; outer lip arcuate, thickened, especially at the upper part; thin at the margin,...
Page 7 - Kisso. (87.) Shell obovate, polished ; spire short, conical, distinct ; aperture linear ; outer lip without varix, but thickened towards the middle, and denticulate within ; columella with distinct plaits at the fore part. Dist. — World-wide. (xv.) Family OLIVID*.
Page 4 - Oh, what an endless work have I in hand, To count the sea's abundant progeny ! Whose fruitful seed far passeth those in land, And also those which won in th