British Marine Conchology; Being a Descriptive Catalogue, Arranged According to the Lamarckian System, of the Salt Water Shells of Great Britain (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 Excerpt: ...p. 389.--pecten S. Mont. Sup.p, 63. t. 29./. 2.--Ostrea. 8. Turt. D. p. 131.--Flattish and subequilateral, a little unequal at one of the sides (but not so much as in the last) with longitudinal straight striae without lesser intermediate ones; auricles nearly rectilinear. W. Coasts. More elongated than the last, the stria more remote and nearly straight. Genus.--PECTEN. Free, regular, inequivahe, auriculated, dorsal line transverse and straight; the beaks contiguous; hinge toothless, the cardinal cavity entirely internal, triangular, and receiving the ligament. Ears equal or nearly so. P. Maximus. Pen. 4. p. 219. t 62.---Lam. 1.--F.p. 383.--Turt. B.p. 207.--Oh.f. 585.--Mont. p. 143.--Ostrea M. Lin. 1144.--List. t. 163. /. 1.--Knorr. 2. t. 14. /. 1.--If. t. 285. /. 1.--Don. 2. t. 49.--Lin. T. S.p. 96.--Dor. Cat. p. 37. t. 9./. 3.--D. p. 247.--Turt. D. p. 128.--P. Vulgaris. Da. Cos. t. 9. /. 3.--Suborbicular, inequivalve, one valve being convex white and tinged with yellow towards the beaks, the other flattish concave towards the beaks and usually brownish red, or white variegated with pink or brown; about fourteen radiating lounded ribs. 4 or 5. The common scallop. P. Operculars. Pen. 4. p. 221. t. 63./, 2.--Mont. p. 145.--Lam. 34, --F. p. 383.--Turt. B. p. 209.--E. t. 112./1. 2.--Ostrea O. Lin. 1146.--Dor. Cat. p. 38. t. 9./. 1,2,4,5.--2). p. 266.--Turt. D. p. 129--(T. Pictus. Da. Cost. t. 9./. 1,2,4,5.;--List, t. 190./. 27.--Knorr. 2. t. 2. /. 2,3.--Suborbicular, the upper valve the more convex, with from eighteen to twenty radiating rather convex ribs, which arc somewhat roughened by obsolete longitudinal and minute transverse striae, and are narrower than their interstices; the color extremely variable, being yellow, white, pink, &c, but the lower va..