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MANUAL OF THE MOLLUSCA. 



Persian Gulf. 

 The mariue zoology of the Persian Gulf and adjoining coast has not 

 been yet explored, although the E. India Company maintains a squadron 

 of five or six ships constantly cruising in the Gulf.* The following shells 

 were picked up on the beach at Kurachee by Major Baker, with many others 

 evidently new, but not in a satisfactory state for description. (1850.) 



Eostellai-ia cuila. 

 Murex tenuispiua var. 

 Pisania spiralis. 

 Kanella tuberculata. 

 ,, spinosa. 

 „ crumena. 

 Triton lampaa. 

 Bullia, n. sp. 

 Eburua spirata. 

 Pui-pura persica. 



„ carinifera. 



Columbella blanda. 



Oliva subulata. 



„ ludusica. 



„ ancillaroicles. 



Cjrpi'sea Lamarckii. 



„ ocellata. 

 Natica pellis-tigi-ina. 

 Sigaretus sp. 

 Odostomia sp. 

 Phorus corrugatus. 

 Planaxis sulcata. 

 Imperator Sauliae. 

 Monodonta sp, 

 Haliotis sp. 

 Stomatella imbricata. 



„ sulcifera. 



Fissurella Piuppellii. 



„ Indusica. 



„ salebrosa. 



,, dactylosa. 



Fissurella funiculata. 

 Pileopsis tricarinatus. 

 Nerita ustulata. 

 Dentalium octangulatum . 

 Eiugicula sp. 

 Bulla ampulla. 

 Anemia acbaeus. 



,, enigmatica. 

 Pecten sp. 

 Spondylus sp. 

 Plicatula depressa. 

 Mytilus caualiculatus. 

 Area obliquata. 



„ sculptilis, &c. 

 Chama sp. 

 Luciua sp. 



Cardium fimbriatum. 

 ,, latum. 

 „ impoUtum. 

 „ pallidum. 

 „ assimile. 

 Yenus pinguis. 

 „ cor. 

 „ purpurata. 

 Meroe Solandri. 



,, effossa. 

 Trigona trigonella ? 

 Artemis angulosa. j 

 „ exasperata. 

 „ subrosea ? 

 Venenipis sp. 



Petricola sp. 

 Tapes sulcosa. 



„ Malabai-ica. 

 Cypricardia vellicata. 

 Cardita crassicostata ? 



„ calyculata. 



„ Tanker^•illii. 

 Mactra ^g7ptica, &c. 

 Tellina angulata. 



„ capsoides. 

 Mesodesma Horsfieldii. 

 Psammobia sp. 

 Syndosmya sp. 

 Semele sp. 

 Solen sp. 



Solecurtus politus. 

 Douax scortum. 



„ scalpellum. 

 Sanguinolaria diphos. 

 „ violacea. 



„ sinuata. 



Corbula sp. 

 Diplodonta sp. 

 Anatina rostrata. 

 Pandora sp. 

 Martesia sp. 

 Pholas australis. 



„ Bakeri, Desh. 



„ orientalis. 

 (Meleagrina v. p. 261.) 



At the Cargados or St. Brandon shoals, north of Mauritius, Voluta 

 costata, Conus verrucosus, Pleurotoma virgo, and Turbinella Belcheri have 

 been obtained by dredging. 



IX. Australo-Zelandic Province. 



Most remote from the Celtic seas, this province is also most unlike them 



in its fauna, containing many genera wholly unknown in Europe, either living 



or fossil, and some which occur fossil in rocks of a remote period. The 



province includes New Zealand, Tasmania, and extra-tropical Australia, from 



* The " Brindled Cowry," {Cypresa princeps) from the Persian GuJf, was valued 

 at £50; the only known specimen is in the British Museum. 



