A Manual of the Land and Fresh-Water Shells of the British Islands ... with coloured plates |
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Achatina Alder animal aperture apex bands Bithinia Brard Brit brown Brug Bulimus Carychium minimum Clausilia colour Conch conchologists conical convex Cyclas Cyclostoma Dict Drap Draparnaud edge eggs elongate epiphragm Fauna Férus Férussac foot genus grey Helix Hist horn-colour hortensis Icon inch in diameter inch long Inhab inner lip Jeffreys Jenyns Journ keel lacustris Land and Fresh-water Leach Limax Limnæus Linn longitudinal mantle margin Moll Mollusca Mont Montagu Müller nearly Nilson oblique operculum outer lip oval pale Paludina periostraca peristome Pfeiffer Phil Physa Physa fontinalis pillar Pisidium Pisidium amnicum plaits Planorbis Planorbis carinatus Pupa Rossm rounded Shell ovate slightly Snail Sowerby specimens spiral spire composed striæ striated Sturm Succinea teeth tentacles Testacella thickened thin Trans transparent Turbo Turton umbilicus Unio Valvata Valvata cristata variety ventricose Verm Vertigo Vertigo alpestris Vitrina Vitrina pellucida volutions whorls yellowish young shells Zonites Zool