Conchylia Insularum Britannicarum: The Shells of the British Islands, Systematically Arranged

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M.A. Nattali, 1822 - 279 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 179 - They gather them in baskets and panniers, and after cleansing them a few hours in cold spring water, fry the animals in a batter made of crumbs of bread.
Σελίδα 55 - Shell somewhat globular, equivalve, closed. Hinge with two approximate teeth and a remote lateral tooth in one valve, and a concave tooth and remote lateral one in the other. Ligament internal.
Σελίδα 112 - Suboval, rlattish, much sloping on the anterior side, semistriated, and semi.pellucid, hinge with two teeth in one valve, and one in the other, pale yellow ; longitudinally radiated with pink ; half an inch long and three fourths of an inch broad.
Σελίδα 60 - SOLEN Squamosus, Montague, and other species described as "flat, nearly orbicular, equivalve, inequilateral, a little open at the sides. Hinge of one valve with a single tooth, and a transverse linear lateral one on each side ; of the other valve, with a cavity in the middle and a transverse deeply cloven lateral tooth each side, the segments of which divaricate from the beak.
Σελίδα 57 - Oval or oblong, equivalve, inequilateral, mostly closed ; hinge with two teeth in each valve and a cavity between them, lateral teeth none; ligament internal.
Σελίδα 14 - The valves rounded and without auricles behind ; a strong conic tooth on the margin above the teeth. T.
Σελίδα 132 - ... confluent in pairs, extending beyond the edges, so as to form a fringe of short obtuse spines, which turn back and form a cavity for the cartilage...
Σελίδα 44 - we have been fortunate enough to procure the intermediate sizes of this species, by which we are enabled to clear up all difficulties with respect to the young of the present shell and the MYA declivis, Montagu.
Σελίδα 250 - Teredo, it inhabits the interior of the wood which has been some time under salt water, penetrating to the depth of from half an inch to an inch, forming for itself an oval receptacle or cavity, and having a very small and single external orifice,
Σελίδα 68 - W. t. 6. /. 23.—Flem. p. 427. Ovaltriangular, inequilateral, convex, whitish or yellowish horn colour, with regular coarse transverse striae ; one side truncated, the other produced in a straight line to a rather acute point ; beaks tumid, prominent without curvature; lateral teeth striated.

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