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MANUAL OF THE MOLLUSCA. 



the markets, being more esteemed than tlie hucclnum. It is the " roaring 

 buckie," in which the sound of the sea may always be heard. In the Zetland 

 cottages it is suspended horizontally, and used for a lamp ; the cavity con- 

 taining the oil, and the canal the wick. (Fleming.) The reversed variety 

 (F. contrarius, Sby) is found in the Medit., and on the coast of Spain ; it 

 abounds in the pliocene tertiary (crag) of Essex. The fasus deformis, a 

 similar sp., found off Spitzbergen, is always reversed. 



FAMILY III. BucciNiD^. 



Shell notched in front ; or with the canal abruptly reflected, producing a 

 kind of varis on the front of the shell. 



Animal similar to murex ; lingual ribbon long and linear, (fig. 16) ra- 

 chidian teeth single, transverse, dentated in front ; uncini single. Carnivorous, 



BucciNUM, L. A^helk. 



Etym., buccina, a trumpet, or triton's-sheil. 



Type, B. undatum. PI. V., fig. 10. 



Shell few whirled ; whirls veutricose ; aperture large ; canal very short, 

 reflected; operculum lamellar, nucleus external. (See pisania) 



Bistr., 20 typical species. Northern and Antarctic seas. Low v/ater to 

 100 fms. (Forbes). (B ? clathratum, 136 fms., off Cape.) 



Fossil, 130 sp., inchxAm^ pisania^ &c. Gault ? — Miocene — . Brit., France. 



Fig. 70. Nidamental capsules of Ihe Whelk* 



The whelk is dredged for the market, or used as bait by fishermen ; it 

 may be taken in baskets, baited with dead fish. Its nidamental capsules are 

 aggregated in roundish masses, which, when thi"own ashore, and diifted by 

 the wind resemble corallines. Each capsule contains five or six young, which, 

 when hatched, ai-e like fig. 70, b : a, represents the inner side of a single 

 capsule, shewing the round hole, fi-om which the fry have escaped. 



* Fig. ^0. From a small specimen, on an oyster-shell, in the cabinet of Albany 

 Hancock, Esq. The line at b, represents the length of the young shell. 



