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SYNOPSIS OF THE ABERDEENSHIRE SPECIES. 

 ORDER I.— TROPIOrODA LAMELLIBRANCHIATA. 



Respiratory organs of two unequal pairs of very thin 

 expanded brancliise, on the sides of the body, within the 

 mantle. 



Lamella, a thin plate ; hrancMce, gills. Blainville. 



MoNOMYARiA. A Single Adductor Muscle. 

 Family I. — Pectinina. 



Body roundish, compressed, with the lobes of the 

 mantle disunited beneath, their margin thickened and 

 fringed with filaments ; the foot very small. Shell in- 

 equivalve, auriculate, more or less radiatingly costate or 

 striate, the hinge toothless, with a central depression for 

 the ligament ; the muscular impression very large, sub- 

 central. Named from the genus Pecten. 



Genus 1. Pecten. — Shell free, regular, inequivalve, 

 roundish, compressed, divergently costate ; umbones 

 very small, pointed ; ligament internal, trigonal. Pecten, 

 a comb. Lister. 



1. Pecten maxinms. — Shell nearly orbicular, inequi- 

 valve, with sixteen convex ribs, which, with their nearly 

 equal convex interstices, are longitudinally striate ; the 

 upper valve flat. Named from being the largest known. 



2. Pecten opercidaris. — Shell nearly orbicular, inequi- 

 valve, with twenty-two convex subcarinate ribs, which, 

 with their concave interstices, are longitudinally striate, 

 and transversely lamelloso-striate ; the upper valve con- 

 vex. Opercidaris, resembling a lid. 



3. Pecten vuriiis. — Shell roundish, somewhat oval, 

 nearly equivalve, with about thirty-two rounded, some- 

 what compressed, irregularly cchinato-laminate ribs. 

 Varius, of different colours. 



4. Pecten Isabellce. — Shell roundish- oval, nearly equi- 

 valve, httle convex, with twenty-four slender, compressed. 



