BRACHIOPODA. ANOMIAD. oa7 
Méthod. Vers. t. clxxi. f. 1,2; Lam. Hist. Nat. des Anim. 
sans Vert. vi. part.1. 227; Dill. Dese. Cat. 287; Turt. 
Conch. Dict. 3. , 
Inhabits the Atlantic, European, English, Scotch and Irish 
seas. 
10. ANOMIA ELECTRICA. 
Shells with their valves rounded, rather smooth, pellucid ; 
the left valve convexly-gibbose; the epidermis yellow. Length 
an inch and a half; height five-eighths of an inch. 
Anomia electrica, Iinn. Syst. Nat. 1151; Born. Mus. 118; 
Rumph. Mus.t.xlvu. f. L. ; Knorr. Vergn. v.t. xxv. f. 691 ; 
Chem. Conch. 79. t. Ixxvi. f. 691; Schroét. Einl. m1. 385 ; 
Gmel. Syst. Nat. 3341; Brug. Encycl. Vers. 71; Lam. 
Hist. des Anim. sans Vert. vi. part. 1. 227; Dill. Desc. 
Cat. 288; Turt. Conch. Dict. 1. 
Inhabits the southern coasts of Devon and Ireland. 
CLASSIS VI. BRACHIOPODA. 
Brachiopoda, Cuvier. 
The body covered with two shells ; the shells furnished with 
two or three closing muscles, but the closing tendon is wanting ; 
the head is hidden; the eyes, lip and tentacula are wanting ; 
the branchie are placed at the sides of the abdomen, and are 
bilobate, with their margins furnished with minute leaves ; the 
mantle is open, and covers the anterior and posterior parts of 
the body ; and their two slender lobes cover the branchie, but 
do not form tubes ; the arms are two and fleshy, margined with 
many filaments, which represent the foot in the Class Gingly- 
maconcha: the sexes are androgynous, and ovo-viviparous. 
