288 ANOMIA. 



Anomia electrica. Linnaus Syst. Nat. p. 1151. Bom 

 Mus. p. 1 18. Chemnitz, viii. p. 79. t. 76. f. 691. Schroe- 

 ter EinL iii. p. 385. Gmelin, p. 3341. Bruguiere 

 Erie. Meth. p. 71. 

 Anomia Cepa, Var. electrica. Solander's MSS. 

 Lister Conch, t. 205. f. 39. Rumphius, t. 47. f. L. ? Pe- 

 ttier Amb. t. 20. f. 8. ? Knorr, v. t. 25. f. 6. Enc. 

 Method, t. 171. f. 3 and 4. 

 Inhabits the Mediterranean. Linnceus. Coasts of the Mo- 

 lucca Islands. Rumphius. Guinea and Morocco. Chem- 

 nitz. Languedoc. Bruguiere. 

 This shell is not more than one fourth as large as A. Ephip- 

 pium, from which it also differs in being thinner, more brit- 

 tle, and always of a bright yellow colour ; the upper valve 

 is also more convex, and its surface more level and slightly 

 marked with only a few irregular transverse wrinkles. 



punctata. 6. Shell orbicular, horny, with impres- 

 sed dots on the lower and elevated dots on 

 the convex valve. 



Anomia punctata. Chemnitz, viii. p. 88. t. 77- f. 698, 



Gmelin, p. 3346. Bruguiere Enc. Method, p. 72. 

 Anomia, No. 3. Schroeter EinL iii. p. 408. 

 Enc. Method, t. 171. f. S and 9. 



Inhabits the coasts of the Ferroe Islands, most commonly at- 

 tached to Muscles. Chemnitz. 



Shell about half an inch in diameter, transparent, very brittle, 

 and of a horn colour ; the outer surface of the convex valve 

 is covered with elevated dots, and the flat valve has them 

 impressed on the outside, and elevated within. 



aculeata. 7. Shell sub-orbicular, with longitudi- 

 nal prickly striae, and the summit recurved ; 

 lower valve flat and porous. 



Anomia aculeata. Midler Zool. Dan. Prodr. p. 249. 



Chemnitz, viii. p. 92. t. 77. f. 702. Gmelin, p. 3346. 



Bruguiere Enc. Meth. p. 73. Montagu Test. p. 157. 



t. 4. f. 5. Maton and Racket, in Lin. Trans, viii. p. 



103. 

 Anomia scabra. Solander's MSS. 

 Enc. Method, t. 171. f. 10. 

 Inhabits the coasts of Norway on shells, and the stems of Fuci, 

 Midler. Britain. Montagu. 



