PLATE XLVIII. 



* DENTALIUM ENTALIS. 



TOOTH SHELL. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Animal a Terebella. Shell slender, tubiform. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS, 



Tubular, conical, somewhat curved, and open at both ends. 



Dentalium Entalis : testa tereti subarcuata continua laevi. 



Linn. Sj/st. Nat. p. 3736. 332. sp. 3. a Gmel. 

 Dentale laeve album, altera extremitate rufescens. List. H. Conch. 



tab. 547. fig. 2. 

 Tubulus marinus regulariter intortus arcuatim incurvatus, & versus 



unam extremitatem acuminatus, dentalis dictus, 



la2vis, candidus. Gualt. 1. Conch, tab. 10. 

 fig- E. 

 Dentale lsve, curvum album. Borlase Cornw. p. 276. tab. 28. 

 fig- 5. 



D 4 



