280 WORMS. TESTACEA. 67. Anomia. 
67. ANOMIA. Animal an emarginate cili 
ate ftrap-fhaped body, with ‘briftles or 
Hinge affixed to the upper-valve; arms 
2, linear longer than the body, connivent 
projectitig, alternate on the valve and 
ciliate each fide, the fringe affixed to 
each valve: fhell bivalve, inequivalve, 
one of the valves flattith, the other gib- 
bous at the bafe with a produced beak, 
generally curved over the hinge; one of 
the valves often perforated near the bafe: 
hinge with a linear prominent cicatrix 
and a lateral. tooth placed within, but in 
the flat valve on the very margin: 2 bo- 
ny rays for the bafe of the animal. 
Graniclaris Shell orbicular, the gibbous valve conico-convex, the flat 
valve with 3 hollows at the bafe. 
Retz. Schr. berl. Naturf. 24 tab, Y. fig. 2, 3. 
en conch. 8. tab. 76. fig. 687. a, b. 
. Chemn, conch, 8. tab. 76. fig. 688. a, b. ! 
utes the Mediterranean Seas and Phikppine lflamd:, and is 
fometimes found foffile; about an inch long and 3 of an inch 
broad: whitifh ; the lower-valve thicker; within are 3 fmooth 
tubercles. 
s P;sinata Hell oblong with branched grooves, the gibbous valve with 
2 hollows behind. 
Chemn. conch, 8. tab, 76. fig. 689, 690. 
Inhabits the Mediterranean, and is often found foffile: about an 
inch long and } broad: flat valve perforated, the other rough 
with longitudinal ícaly ftri: which are here and there bifid. 
* Ephippium Shell roundifh pellucid with wrinkled plaits; the flat valve 
perforated. 
Donovan's Brit. SheHs, i./tab. 26. 
Penn. Brit. Zool. iv. tab. 62. 
Da Cofta Brit. conch, tab. ¥1. fig. 3. 
Bonan. recr. 2. fig. §6, Muf. hirch. 2¢ fig. 55. 
Gualt. 7eft. tab. 97. B. Lifter. tab. 204. fig. 38. 
Ginana adr. 2. tab. ra 2 Jig. us Barbut. t. YO. f. 5. 
Argenv. conch, tab. 19 fig. © 
Chemn. conch, 8. tab, 76, fig. 692, 695. ! 
Inhabits 
