WORMS. TESTACEA. 54. Lepas. 169 
Inhabits the American and Atlantic feas, and is fometimes found 
in a foffüle ftate: peduncle pale faffron: firft valve curved, 
fmooth and carinate on the back, the reft with diftant ftriz, 
each of the larger ones turgid towards the peduncle, with a 
wedged divergent end; the {maller ones narrower and more 
pointed, 
* Anatitera Shell compreffed, 5-valved, fmooth, feated on a peduncle. 
" Duc£-bernacle. 
Natur. Mifell. tab. igi. Barbut, tab. 1, f. 10. 
Pennant Brit. Zool. iv. tab. 38, f. 9. 
Donovan's Brit. fnells, 1. ta5. 7. 
Ellis Philof Tran]. 1758. tab. 34, f. 6. 
Da cla Brit. conch. tab. 18, f. 3. 
Lifter conch. tab 440, f. 283. 
Chemin. conch. tab. 100, f. 853—855. 
Gualt. Te. tab. 106, f. A; B; 
Argenw. conth. tab, 20, f E. Zoomorph. t. 7, f. 1, Ke 
Seba Mof. 5. tab. 5 PoP. A. 2. 
-Shellrounded. Lif. conch. tab. 439, f. 280. 
. The longer valve {pinous on the back. 
Lifter anch, tab. 439, fig. 202: 
t3 
oa. 
4. Cancellate with fine fire; cinereous. 
Gualt. Test. tab. 106, fig. B. 5; 
Inhabits moft feas; and is generally found fixed in clufters to 
the bottoms of veffels and old pieces of floating timber; gene- 
rally whitith with a blue catt; the margins of the valves yel- 
low 5: fometimes marked with a ray or two dotted with black: 
peduncle long, coriaceous, black, and very much wrinkled to- 
wafds the fhell,.and growing paler and pellucid towards the 
bafe, extenfile; fometimes though rarely red: valves finely 
itriate; the 2 larger ones triangular; the 2 top ones nearly 
triangular and about half the fize; the other narrow, long, 
curved, rounded at the back, a little protuberant at the baíe 
and inclofing the others. : 
'This fpecies was formerly fuppofed to be the origin of the 
Bernaclé goofe. See Gerard’s Herbal, p. 1587, 1588. 
Aurita, ; Shell membranaceous, ventricofe, featedon a tube and eared: 
mouth 8-valved, toothed. * 
Ellis Pbilef. Tranf. 1758. tab. 34, f.i. 
Seba Muf, 3. tab. 16, f.5. Edw. Glean. t. 286, f. A. 
Chemn. conch. 8. tab. 100. f. 857, 858, 
Inhabits North Seas :. peduncle long. 
Pfittacn. Shell hooked behind, 6-valved, wrinkled. - 
Molin Hist, Nat. Chili. p. 179. 
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