PLATE XCV. 



SERPULA VERMICULARIS. 



COMMON SERPULA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Animal a terebella, or whimble worm. Shell tubular, adheres to 

 other bodies, as shells, stones, &c. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Shell round, cylindrical, or scarcely tapering, curved and wrinkled, 



Serpula Vermicularis : testa tereti subulata curvata rugosa, 

 Lin. Syst. Nat. a Gmel. T. I. Jig. 4. p. 3743. 

 — Dentalium testa cylindracea inaequali flexuosa 

 contorta. Lin. Fn.Sv. I. p. 380. No. 1328. 



Tubuli in quibus vermes. Worm Shells. Merret, Pin. p. 194. 



Serpula vermicularis Worm. Penn. Brit. Zool. No. 157, 

 tab. 91. Jig. 159. 



Serpulae vermicularis, common. Da Costa Br. Conch, p. 18. sp. 9. 

 —Tab. 2. Jig. 5. 



Those shells are extremely frequent on all the British coasts, either 

 in groupes attached to stones, shells and marine exuviae, or in single 



