UNIVALVES. BUCCINUM. 



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many are found on the British shores; and also some few 

 in the Mediterranean. 



This genus derives its name from some of its species 

 bein^ formed hke a trumpet. 



B\J CCmVM— fVhelk. 



A. 



Olearium — Clouded Tun. 

 Galea — Brown Tun. 

 Perdix — Partridge Tun. 

 Pomum — Thick-lipped. 

 Dolium — Spotted Tun. 

 Caudatum — Beaked. 



Inflated, rounded, thin, subdiaphanous, and 



BRITTLE. 



Niveum — Snowy. 

 Clathratum — Latticed. 

 *Lineatum — Spiral-lined. 

 *Breve — Short. 

 *Minimum — Smallest. 

 *Obtusulum — Small obttise. 



B. — With a short exserted, reflected beak; lip out- 

 wardly UNARMED. 



♦Minutum — Small. 

 *Laeve — Smooth. 

 *Obtusissimum — Fery-obtuse. 

 Echinophorum — Tubercidated. 

 Plicatum — Plaited Helmet. 

 Cornutum — Horned Helmet. 

 Rufum — Bull's Mouth. 

 Tuberosum — Casket. 

 Flammeum — Triangular. 

 Testiculus — Purse. 

 Decussatum — Pincushion. 

 Areola — Small-diced. 

 Tigrinum — Tiger. 

 Undulatum — Waved. 

 Cicatricosum — Cicatrised. 

 Tessellatum — Granulated-spire. 

 Tyrrhenum 



Abbreviatum — Shortened. 

 Pennatum — Feathered. 

 M aculosum — Spotted. 

 Bilineatum — Two-lined. 

 Gibbum — Gibbous. 

 Veutricosum — Ventricose. 

 Strigosum — Spotted. 

 Rugosom — Rugged-spire. 

 Ponderosum — Heavy. 

 Recurvirostru m — Recurved- beak 

 Trifesciatum — Three-banded. 

 Senegalicum — Senegal. 

 Ochrolecum — Ochraceous. 

 S triatum — Striated. 

 Cassis — Helmet. 

 Strigatum — Zebra. 

 •—Tuscany. 



