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The Linnaean system of conchology ... / By John Mawe.

  • John Mawe
Date:
1823
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Credit: The Linnaean system of conchology ... / By John Mawe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Scientific Name. Locality. Common Names Punctatus - .---- British Seas ---+-+---+-> Punctured B. « Radtatncnis «0 actheo™ ce ey steteltarctie ts atmrete ere saree Rayed oe ee GOts Ghrlosaus- 2feo4 SoS as @aesee weetbeemaie Ridged - -- do -- Psittacus ------- Chili ----+5 --++-eeeee Beaked -- - do ++ Hemispherica --- Africa --+-+-+++++++-++-- Hemispherical do Levis «---++--- East and West Indies --- Smooth---- do -- Striatus ----+---- English and Dutch coasts Striated - - do -- Famity 2. Having radiated cells at their base. Diadema ----... Mediterranean, &c. ---- Turban Barnacle Balanaris -+-+..- comet bee eee ween eee Whale - -- do-- di THiohhiGldGh os On OOMn re Cotiss con oda sas Turtle «« «alow: * Quinquevalyis-+ s+ +e se eee cree teens Five valve do -- Famity 3.— Having a poroits base. Porosus +++ +++: East Indies, &c. -------- Porous Barnacle Purpurascens---- Falkland’s Isle --------- Purple ---- do -- Famity 4.—Having acup-like appendage at the base. Galeata ---+-:-- Mediterranean, &c. +--+: Helmet-like do -- Spongeosa Aron, Dorsetshire -+---- wisievets Spongy Pearce cee Famity 5.—Tubular and truncated at both ends. Tracheaformis -++- ++ ses rece sere t ee ce ee ee Windpipe - do -- Diviston $1.—Shells attached to a fleshy peduncle. Notwithstanding the great aftinity which exists throughout the Lepas genus, there are a few ex- ceptions, in which a resemblance is- difticult to be traced; as, for example, in the L. scalpellum, L. anserifera, L. anatifera, and varieties emanating from them. These three species are closely allied to each other, but exceedingly dissimilar to the rest of the genus, for the generality of Lepades are affixed to