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GEN. XXXV. 

 TEREDO. 



Animal ufually defcr'ibcd as a TEREBELLAJ'^ 



SHELL cylindrlc, taper, flexuous, lodged in woody 

 iubftances; with two teftaceous, hemifpherical valves, 

 anteriorly truncated, covering the head of the animal: 

 and two others, of a lanceolate fhape, near the extremity 

 of the tail. 



1. 

 Teredo navalis. Lin. Syji. p. 1267. — Gmel Syji. p. 3747.1. Navalis. 



Martini Conch, t. 1. f. 11. 



Plane. Conch. 17. No. 2. 



Setlius Hijl. Natur. Tcredinis. 1733. 



Pult. Cat Dorfel. p. 53. 



Phil. Trans. 1741. No. 455. t. 2. (Bajier. 



Br. Zool. No. 160. 



Turt. Lin. iv. p. 609. 

 Serpula Teredo. Da Cojia. p. 21. 



T. v/itli 



* The animal certainly has none of the charaiSlers of a Terebclla. It has 

 neither tcntacula., branchiae^ tubercles, nox fajuiidi ; and is diftinft from any 

 teftaceous animal we are acquainted with. 



