28 CONCHIFERA. 



Class CONCHIFERA. 



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Head indistinct; moutli with elongate flesliy lips or palpi. 

 Body covered with a bi-lobed mantle, each lobe protected by a 

 shelly valve. Gills lamellar, two on each side. Foot placed 

 under the body, usually compressed and keeled. Valves of shells 

 united on their dorsal edges by a ligament. Animal aquatic. In- 

 dividual bisexual. 



Family PHCLADID^, Leach. 1819. 



Shell gaping at both ends, armed in front with rasp-like sculp- 

 ture ; without hinge or ligament, often strengthened by additional 

 valves. 



Oenus TEREDO, Lin. 1758. 



Valves equal, largely open at both ends, forming a ring, placed 

 at the larger extremity of a shelly tube open at both ends, and 

 furnished with pallets. 



Teredo navalis. 



'Principal diameters equal, posterior auricle expanded, descendinj:^ much below 

 the anterior triangle, and internally presenting a broad, appressed shelf. Pallets 

 emarginate at tip. 



Teredo marina, Sellius, Hist. Nat. Tered. tab. 2, fifjs. 2, 3, 6. 



Teredo navalis, Lix., Syst. Nat. 12G7. — Forhes and H.\nl., Brit. Moll. i. 74, pi. \, figs. 

 7, 8; pi. 18, fif^s. 3, 4. — IIanley, Shells of Lin. 450. — Sowerby, 111. Br. Shells, 

 pi. 1, fiff. L — Tryon, Proc. Ac. Nat. So. Phil. (Sept. 18G2), 468, where also may be 

 found the synonymy in full. 



This is the curious sliell which is so remarkable for perforating 

 holes in timber, giving it a honeycomb appearance. These holes 



* With the few exceptions mentioned by mc in foot-notes, all the text of Conchifera 

 was prepared by Dr. Gould. — W. G. B. 



