140 ilANUAL OF THE MOLLUSCA. 



Type, A. australis, PI. IX., fig. 33. 



Shell gloljular, with an uneven, battered, sui"face ; columella fissui-ed ; 

 outer lip channelled near the suture ; operc. horny, sub-spiral. Animal with- 

 out tentacles ; eyes placed on round lobes ; air-breathing ; respiratory cavity 

 closed, except a small valvular opening on the right side ; a large glaud occu- 

 pies the position of the gill of paludina ; sexes united (Quoy). Mr. Gray 

 places this genus amongst the true pulmonifera. 



Distr., 3 sp. Shores of New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. The living 

 shells sometimes have serpulce attached to them (Cuming). They are eaten 

 by the New Zealanders. 



Valyata, INIiiller. Valve-shell. 



Types, V. piscinalis, PL IX., fig. 28. V. cristata, PI. IX., fig. 29. 



Shell turbinated, or discoidal, umbilicated ; whirls round or keeled ; aper- 

 ture not modified by the last whirl ; peristome entii-e ; operc. horny, multi- 

 spiral. 



Animal with a produced muzzle ; tentacles long and slender, eyes at their 

 outer bases ; foot bi-lobed in front ; branchial plume long, pectinated, parti- 

 ally exserted on the right side, w^hen the animal is walking. Lingual teeth 

 broad ; uncini 3, lanceolate ; all hooked and denticulated. 



Disir., 6 sp. Brit., N. America. 



Fossil, 19 sp. "Wealden — . Brit., Belgium, &c. 



PAMILY VIII. Neritid^. 



Shell thick, semi-globose ; spire very small ; cavity simple, from the 

 absorption of the internal portions of the whii-ls ; aperture semi-limate ; colu- 

 meUar side expanded and flattened ; outer lip acute. Operculum shelly, sub- 

 spiral, articulated. 



At each end of the columella there is an oblong muscular impression, 

 connected on the outer side by a ridge, on which the operculum rests ; Avithiu 

 this ridge the inner layers of the shell ai-e absorbed. 



Animal ^vith a broad, short muzzle, and long slender tentacles ; eyes on 

 prominent pedicels, at the outer bases of the tentacles ; foot oblong, triangidar. 

 Lingual dentition similar to the turlinidce. Teeth 7 ; uncini very numerous. 



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Fig. 85.* 

 Fig. 85. Nerita polita, L. (from Quoy and Gaimard) New Ireland. 



