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The following List of English Trivial Names will 

 be found useful to purchasers of shells, as dealers 

 most frequently adopt them. It is, however, veiy 

 much to be wished that all names should be 

 abolished which are not strictly translations of the 

 Linnaean specific ones. The trivial terms are 

 mostly derived from some supposed resemblance to 

 well-known objects ; and are therefore liable to be 

 altered according to the fancy of collectors and 

 catalogue-makers, who, in fact, have contrived to 

 create as much uncertainty and confusion as could 

 be expected from such a source. There are doubt- 

 less many technical distinctions which are not 

 included in the subjoined enumeration, but the 

 greater part of those in common acceptation are so. 

 None of those are, of course, inserted which are 

 merely rendered from the Latin, as " scaly Chiton " 

 from Chiton squamosus, except in a few instances 

 where the word is a substantive and not an 

 adjective. 



