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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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    most commonly smooth, The interior margin is rarely crenulated. The exterior of these shells varies materially, some being perfectly smooth and polished, whilst others are covered with minute striz and undulations; and occasionally the whole surface is beset with imbrications or scales. Some species of the Tellina are remarkable for their beautiful radiations, the colors of which are rarely to be equalled in any of the other genera. The Telline are produced in abundance in almost every sea; the rivers, pools, ponds, and marshes of Europe and America supply only afew. The finest varieties are found in the pearl fisheries of Ceylon. The Tellina takes its name from reActw. * Division I.—Ovate and thickish. Scientific Name. Locality. Common Name. Gargadia --+----. Indian Ocean -++-+++++ Toothed Tellen Rugosa ---+-+++- Otaheite,W.IndianSeas Rugged -- do -- Lingua Felis ---. Indian Ocean --+++++++- Cat’stongue do - Marginalis ----- Coasts of China --++-+-- Margined-.- do -- Virgata +++... Amboyna, Ceylon, Bay of ' Naples, Moluccas -++- Striped--++ do ++ * Interrupta --+.+. West India Islands +---- Freckled -- do «+ Angulata es+.-.- Tranquebar, Mediterra- NEAN «eo cereveccvccece Angular se GO +e Inflata ++ee+eee sjetpleaalsiajn-afaislaichcsuigtdett tastes Inflated -- do- Polygona -++++«+ Tranquebar, Naples ---- Potygonal- do -- Lacunosa ++++++- Coast of Guinea ++++++-- Marshy --- do -- Gibbosgaigests igewss a 15 Fae ne Me ctelslotestee = Gibbous -- do «+ Gari ++++++seees Amboyna, Molucca Isles, Ching). «cay eseboeaer Varying -- do «+ Ferréensis -+++-- Britain, Ferroe Isles, Nor- WAY + eeceeccesereeees Carnation + do --