Pes felis. 
Pellucens. 
Obliterata. 
Sanguine. 
& Varia. 
WORMS. TESTACEA. 66. Oftrea. 265 
Shell with 9 ftriate rough rays: one of the ears very {mall. 
Bonan. recy. 2. fig. 7. Muf. Kirch. 2. f. 8. : 
Born. Muf. Caf. Vind. teft. tab. 6. fig. 2. 
Chemn, conch, 7. tab. 64. fig 612. t. 65. f. 613. 
Inhabits the fhores of Africa: fmall, thin, pellueid, generally 
pale flefh-colour fpotted and veined, within glabrous white, 
with fubundulate rays and crenate plaits on the margin: ears 
with tranfverfe knotty ftriz. 
Shell nearly equivalve with 9 rays, fmooth with fpoon-like 
hemifphzrial fcales on the lower valve. 
2. Chemn. conch. 7. tab. 66. pig. 625—627. 
Inhabits the African Seas: ovate, minute, pellucid, glabrous, 
white; the upper-valve {potted with red. 
Shell fmooth on the outfide with 24 doubled rays. 
Chemn. conch. 7. tab. 66. fig. 62 2—624. 
Inhabits the Zz;4iaz Ocean; refembles V. Pleuroneétes, but is 
lefs: shell with very fine decuffate ftriz ; the lower-valve pale 
reddifh, and yellowilh at the hinge; upper-valve dirty red 
or pale tawny, 
Shell equiyalve with 22 rough rays: ears fmall. 
Lister conch. tab, 185. fig. 22. Gualt. test. tab. 74, M? 
Chemn, conch. 7. tab. 00. fig. 628. 
Inhabits the Mediterrazean, Atlantic and American Seas. 
Shell roandish flattifh, red fcarlet or tawny ; the {paces between 
the rays ftriate longitudinally: about 2 inches long and ii 
broad. 
Shell equivalve with about 20 compreffed rays befet with 
tranfverfe prickly fcales: one ear very fmall. 
Donovan's Britifh Shells. i. tab. 1. fig. 1. 
Pennant Brit, Zool. iv, tab. 61. fig. 64. 
Da Cofta Brit conch. t. 10. f. 1, 2,448, 7. 9. 
Lilier conch. tab. 187. Argenville conch. tab, 24. H, 
Bonan. recr. and Muf. Kirch, 2. fig. 5. 
Gualt. teft. tab. 73. G, H. fab. 74. R. 
Knorr Vergn. 2. tab. 18. fig. 3-95. Pelis fu 2. 1, 12, f. $356. 
t. 16. f. 2. Argenv, conch. tab. 24. H. 
Chema. conch. 7. tab. 66. fig. 633, 634. 
Inhabits moft Européan Seas: varies much in colour, from pale 
ycllow to various fhades of orange and brown, with fometimes 
a few white fpots: /De// rather convex, with rough jags or 
fpinous protuberances down the rays; fpaces between the rays 
not ftriate : one ear very fmall with a double row of fpines, the 
other with wrinkled plaits and armed beneath with 5-7 fpines, 
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