The Linnæan System of Conchology: Describing the Orders, Genera, and Species of Shells Arranged Into Divisions and Families : with a View to Facilitate the Student's Attainment of the Sciencesold, 1823 - 207 pàgines |
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The Linnaean System of Conchology: Describing the Orders, Genera, and ... John Mawe Visualització completa - 1823 |
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Adriatic Africa Amboyna America Asiatic Ocean Banded Barbadoes beak beautiful Bivalves Britain Britain Ditto brittle Brown Buccinum Cape Ceylon China CHITON Coast color color'd Common Name Coromandel crenated crenulated Crouch Lithog Denmark Devonshire Ditto Ditto DIVISION II.-Shell Domingo E.A.Crouch Lithog East & West East Indian Ocean East Indian Seas East Indies England Europe European exterior FAMILY 2.-With fifth division Gaping genus gibbous Goree greater number Greenland Grooved Guinea Hinge without teeth Indian Ocean Jamaica LIBRARIES STANFORD linear lip toothed Locality Madagascar Magellan margin Mauritius Mediterranean Moluccas Multivalves Murex Nicobar Isles Norway oblong opposite valve outer lip ovate perforated pillar lip plaited Printed by Rowney Red Sea resemblance Rowney & Forster Scientific Name Senegal shap'd Shell bivalve smooth South Seas species specimens spines spinous spiral spire Strand striæ striated subulate Tranquebar transverse truncated tuberculated Turbo umbilicated umbilicus UNIVALVES Ventricose VOLUTA West Indies White whorls Wrinkled Yellow Zealand
Passatges populars
Pàgina 46 - coat, as a mark of their having crossed the sea, for the purpose of paying their devotions at the holy shrine in Palestine: in commemoration of which they are still preserved in the armorial bearings of many families of distinction, whose ancestors had performed that ceremony.
Pàgina 79 - Shell univalve, involute, subovate, smooth, obtuse at each end ; aperture effuse at each end, linear, extending the whole length of the shell, and toothed on each side. THIS
Pàgina 52 - Shell bivalve, inequivalve, one of the valves flatfish, the other gibbous at the base, with a produced beak, generally curved over the hinge ; one of the valves often perforated near the base : hinge with a linear, prominent cicatrix, and a lateral tooth placed within, but in the flat
Pàgina 46 - Shell bivalve, generally with unequal valves, and slightly eared; hinge without teeth, but furnished with an ovate hollow, and
Pàgina 97 - gibbous; aperture ovate, terminating in a short canal, leaning to the right, with a refuse beak or projection; pillar-lip expanded.
Pàgina 171 - Shell tubular, composed of particles of sand, broken shells, and vegetable substances, united to a membrane by a glutinous cement.
Pàgina 64 - in the Indian, American, Atlantic, and European oceans, as well as in the Adriatic and Red Seas.
Pàgina 112 - Shell univalve, spiral, rough, with membranaceous sutures ; aperture oval, ending in an entire, straight, or slightly ascending canal. THE
Pàgina 181 - The SHELL-COLLECTOR'S PILOT, or VOYAGER'S COMPANION, with an elegant coloured Frontispiece, and Plate of Insects. This little Work is peculiarly adapted for Voyagers in general, pointing out the Places where, the best Shells were found in a Voyage round the World, and during a period of -Sixteen Years which the Author passed at Sea.
Pàgina 1 - recurved, united by a cartilage ; in the inside, beneath the hinge, is an incurved tooth.