266 OSTREA. 



Ostrea opercularis. Linnaus Syst. Nat. p. 1147. Born 



Mus. p 106. Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 317- t. 9. f. 3. 



Gmelin, p. 3325. Maton and Racket, in Lin. Trans. 



viii. p. 98. Dorset Cat. p. 38. t. 9. f. 1, 2, 4, and 5. 



Brooks's Tntrod. p. 77- t. 4. f. 41. 

 Ostrea diibia. Gmelin, p. 3319- 

 Ostrea elegans. Gmelin, p. 3319. 

 Ostrea versicolor. Gmean, p. 3319- 

 Ostrea radiata. Gmelin, p. 3320. 

 Ostrea subrufa. Donovan, i. t. 12. 

 Ostrea, No. 36. Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 336, No. 38. p. 



336, No. 39- p 337, and No. 50. p. 340. 

 Pecten subrufus. Pennant Zool. iv. p. 100. t. 60. f. 63. 

 Pecten pictus. Da Costa Brit. Conch, p. 144. t. 9. f« 1, 



2, 4, and 5. 

 Pecten opercularis. Chemnitz, vii. p. 341. t. 67. f. 646. 

 Bonanni Rec. and Kirch. 2. f. 6. Lister Anim. Ang. t. 5. 



f. 30, and Conch, t. 182. f. 19, t. 190. f. 27, t. 191. f-28, 



and t. 192. f. 29- Petiver Gaz. t. 94. f. 1. Seba, iii. t. 



87. f. 15. Knorr, ii. t. 3. f. 2 and 3. Favanne, t. 54. 



f. L 2. Enc. Meth. t. 213. f. 3. 

 Inhabits the Southern Ocean. Linnteus. Coasts of Britain. 

 Pennant, fyc. Ferroe Islands. Muller. America. D'Avila. 

 Bay of Naples. Ulysses. 

 Shell varying from one to two inches and a half in diameter, 

 and the length and breadth are equal ; the colour is bright 

 yellow, brown, reddish, flesh-colour or purple, generally more 

 or less beautifully streaked, and mottled with white ; the 

 lower convex valve has the brightest colours, and the inside 

 is white tinged with brown ; the auricles are nearly equal. 



lineata. 43. Shell sub-orbicular, with about 

 twenty somewhat carinated ribs, and crowd- 

 ed decussated striae ; upper valve more con- 

 vex than the lower. 



Ostrea lineata. Donovan, iv. t. 116. Maton and Racket, 

 in Lin. Trans, viii. p. 99. Dorset Cat. p. 38. t. 10. 

 f. 8. 



Ostrea crenata. Gmelin, p. 3319- 



Ostrea carinata. Solanders MSS. 



Ostrea, No. 28. Schroeter Einl. iii. p. 334. 



Pecten lineatus. Da Costa Brit. Conch, p. 147. t. 10. f. 

 8. Montagu Test. p. 147. 



Lister Conch, t. 170. f. 7-? 

 Inhabits the coasts of Britain. Da Costa, fyc. 



