1070 



(genus XXXIV. 



SERPULArt 



SHELL UNIVALVE, TUBULAR, ADHERING, AND SOME- 

 TIMES DIVIDED BY IMPERFORATED DISSEPIMENTS 

 AT UNEQUAL DISTANCES. 



STELLARis. 1. Shell sub-orbicular, umbilicated, coti- 

 vex, with radiated wrinkles. 



Serpula stellaris. Fahricius Fauna Groenl. p. 383. No. 

 380. Gmelin, p. 3747. 



Inhabits the shores of Greenland, on Sertulariae, and sometimes 

 on stones and shells. Fahricius. 



Shell very small, not larger than a small pin's head, of a red- 

 dish brown, yellow, or violet-colour, and rayed with white. 

 It has one whirl or bend, is flat beneath, and has an ex- 

 tremely minute aperture. 



SEMiNULUM. 2. Shell regular, oval, detached, and 

 glabrous. 



Serpula Seminulum. Linnmts Si/st. Nat. p. 1264. Mar- 



ti7ii, i. p. 6l. t. 3. f. 22, a and b. Schr oeter Einl. li. 



p. 535. Fahricius Fauna Groenl. p. 376. Gmelin, p. 



3739. Maton and Racket, in Lin. Trans, viii. p. 245. 



Dorset Cat. p. 60. t. 19. f. 31. 

 Serpula ovalis. Adams in Lin. Trans, v. 1. 1. f. 28 to 30. 



t I have omitted the following of Gmelin's species, which appear to me to be 

 very doubtful and obscure. S. cinerea, p. 3747, S. Infundibulum, p. 3745, S, 



Norwegica, p. 3746, and S, pyramidalis, p. 3746. S. Melitensis, p. 3746, is a 



fossil. The S.Jilograna of Linnaeus and the Tubipora ramosa of Gmelin are the 

 same ; and S. intestinalis of Gmelin, p. 3745, appears also to be a Zoophyte. 



