GEN, II. 



BALANUS. 



A?wnal a TRITON. 



SHELL, of many ereft unequal valves, affixed by a 

 broad bale, or feffile. 



1. 



Communis. Lepas Balanus. Lin. Syft. p. IIOI .—Gmel Syji. p. 3207. 



Turt. Lin. iv. p. 165. 

 Lijlcr. Conch, t. 443. f. 2^6.— Bon. Br. 

 Shdh. i. t. 30. f. 1. Br. Zool t. 37. f. 4, 

 Lepas Cornubienfis. Br. Zool. t, 37. f. 6. var. 

 Balanus Porcatus. Da. Cojia. p. 2iy. 

 Balanus Communis. P:i!t. Cat. Dorfet. p. 25. 



B. with a flrong rugged fiiell, of a clnereous-bro'.vn 

 colour; compartments unequal. and frequently mdiftincl, 

 compofed of irregular longitudinal flrije or ridges : of a 

 conic fhape, detached (hells frequently perfectly round at 

 the bafe, and regularly (loping upwards : tlie aperture 

 not large in proportion ; operculum of four v.dvcs tranf- 

 verfely (Iriated, with a longitudinal furrow on the t\vo lon- 

 ged. Diameter at the bafe, fometimes an inch, height 

 nearly three quarters. 



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