PLATE CLIV. 



BUCCINUM GLACIALE. 



NORTHERN WHELK. 



a 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Animal Limax. Shell univalve, spiral, gibbous. Aperture ovate, 

 ending in a short canal or gutter, inclining to the right : tail or beak 

 refuse : inner lip expanded. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



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Shell smooth, somewhat striated, ovate-oblong ; lower whorl slightly 



carinated. 



Buccinum glaciale : testa laevi substriata ovato-oblonga : an- 

 fractu infimo subcarinato. Linn. Faun. Suec. 

 2162. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 4. 3491. sp. 92. 

 Chemn. Conch. 10/. 152. 1446, 1447. 



Tritonium glaciale, 0. Fabr. Faun. Groenl. No. 397. 



As a native of the North Seas, this shell was well known to Lin- 

 naeus, by whom it was most accurately and minutely described in his 

 vol. v. d 



