PLATE XLIV. 



VENUS VERRUCOSA. 



WART ED VfiNUS SHELL. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bivalve. Hinge furnished with three teeth ; two pear each other, 

 the third divergent from the beaks. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS, 



Somewhat heart shaped, Deeply decussated on the sides, with 

 transverse and oblique furrows, which form membraneous protube* 

 ranees or warts. Margins finely crenated. 



Venus Verrucosa : testa subcordata : sulcis membranaceis striatls 

 reflexis, antice imprimis, verrucosis, margine cre- 

 nulato, Linn. Sj/si. Nat. p. 1130. No. 116. 



Pectunculus omnium crassissimus, fasciis ex latere buUatis donatus. 

 List. H. Conch, tab. 2%^. Jig. 122. 



Concha marina valvis squalibus sequalitera, notabiliter umbonata et 

 oblique incurvata, subrotunda, vulgaris, striis cir- 

 cularibus profundis, elatis, bullatis exasperata, et 

 circumdata, crassa, subalblda. Giuilt. 1. Conch, 

 tab. 75. fig. H. 



Concha cinerca densa, margine dentato, striis rugosis et 6 lateribus 

 undose tuberculosis. The wrinkled, notched, and 

 high-beaked concha, or cockle. Borldse Cornw, 

 p. 278. tab. 2B. fig. 32. 



