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chyliorum among the turbinated Shells, 

 after the Nautili, the Snails, and the Ne- 

 rits, and preceding the Trochi. He does 

 the lame in his work de Animalibus An- 

 gliae, wherein, p. 167, he lays, it is fpiral 

 at the Clavicle in the fame manner as 

 other turbinated Shells, and therefore by 

 feme is wrongly placed among the fimple 

 Shells. Gualtieri ranks them among the 

 Snails with deprelTed or flatted clavicles ; 

 and Adanfon and Meufchen take them from 

 the fimple Shells, and place them as the 

 firft family of the fpiral Shells, 



I fliall fiK another characler to this fa- 

 ipily, in which all other authors, Linn^us 

 excepted, differ from me : that is, I can 

 allow no Shell to be of the Haliotls family 

 without having the row of perforations ; for 

 1 hold that to be an eflential character, ^h^^s 

 the Venus Ear, ranked as a Haliotis, I fliall, 

 1.1 ke Linnaeus"^, ieparate from them. 



* Syfl. Nat. p. 1250, 713, Helix Haliotoidca. 



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