198 



PECTENlDiE. 



Pecten Islandicus. 



Fig. 87. 



Shell sub-orbicular, reddish or orange-brown; ears unequal; surface covered 

 witli small, crowded, irregularly disposed, scaly, radiating ribs, which reappear 

 within. 



Ostrea hiandica, Mullee, Zool. Dan. Prod. No. 2990. — Lin. Iter Wcstrogoth. 200, t. 5, 



fig. 7. — Gmelin, 3326, No. 55 — Shaw, Zool. Misc. xxiii. t. 978, 987. — Wood, 



Ind. pi. 7, fig. 21. — Fadr. Fauna Grounl. 415. — Knorr, Delices, &c. t. 1, pi. B, fi^s. 



3, 4. — Lister, Conch, t. 1057, fig. 4. — Gualt. Test. t. 73, fig. K. — Seisa, Mus. 



ii. t. 87, fig. 7. 

 Pecten Islandicus, Chemn. Conch, vii. 314, t. 65, figs. 615, 616. — Turton, Conch. Diet. 



258; Brit. Biv. 216. — Desh. Encyc. Meth Vers, iii. 724, pi. 212, fig. 1. — Flem. Brit. 



Anim. 385, pi. 212, fig. 1. — Lam. An. sans Vert. vii. 145. — Say, Amer. Conch, i. 



pi. 56. — De Kay, N. Y.Moll. 173, pi. 11, fig. 206 — Gould, Inv. 1st ed. 133, fig. 87. 

 Ostrea cinnuban'na, Born, Mus. 103. — Dillwyn, Catal. 256, No. 20. — Schroet. Eiiil. 



iii. 326, No. 9. 

 Pecten Pculii, Conrad, Amor. Mar. Conch. 12, ])1. 2, fig. 2. 

 Pecten rnbidus, Martyn, Un. Conch. No 153, pi. 53, fig. I (1784). 

 Chlapiys Islandicus, Chenu, Man. ii. 184, fig. 928. 



Shell sub-orbicular, or broadly obovate, equal, the upper valve 



Fig. 495. 



P. Islandicus. 



slightly more convex than the lower, covered with an indefinite 

 number, fifty to a hundred, of narrow, unequal, crowded, irregularly 



