PLATE XLIV. 



VENUS VERRUCOSA, 



WARTED VENUS SHELL. 

 CENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bivalve. Hinge furnished with three teeth ; two near each other, 

 the third divergent from the beaks, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Somewhat heart shaped. Deeply decussated on the sides, with 

 transverse and oblique furrows, which form membraneous protube- 

 rances or warts. Margins finely crenated. 



Venus Verrucosa : testa subcordata : sulcis membranaceis striatis 



reflexis, antice imprimis, verrucosis, margine cre- 

 nulato. Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 1130. No. 116. 



Pectunculus omnium crassissimus, fasciis ex latere bullatis donatus, 

 List. H. Conch, tab. 2M.fg. 122. 



Concha marina valvis sequalibus aequalitera, notabiliter umbonata et 



oblique incurvata, subrotunda, vulgaris, striis cir- 

 cularibus prcfundis, elatis, bullatis exasperata, et 

 circumdata, crassa, subalbida. Gualt. 1. Conch, 

 tab. 15. fg. II. 



Concha cinerea densa, margine dentato, striis rugosis et € lateribus 

 undose tuberculosis. The wrinkled, notched, and 

 high-beaked concha, or cockle, Borlase Cornw, 

 p. 273. tab, 28. fg. 32, 



