PLATE XLV, 



OSTREA STRIATA. 



STRIATED OrSTER, 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Animal a Tethys. Shell bivalve, unequal. Hinge without a tooth, 

 having a small oval cavity. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 akd 



® SYNONYMS. 



Less than the common Oyster. Outside wrought with thread- 

 like longitudinal ridges. Inside green. 



OsTREUM STRIATUM: mediae magnitudinis veluti striatum Intus 



virescente. Da Costa, pi. 11. fg. 4. 4. p. 162. 



sp. 9. 

 Ostreum parvum veluti striatum, testa intus virescente, cardine utrlnque 



canaliculato. List. H. An. Angl. /?. 18 1. tit. 27. 



tab. 4. Jig. 27. 

 Osti-ea fere circinata, subviridis, leviter striata. List. II. Conch. 



tab. 202. 203. fig. 36. 37. 

 An Ostreum vulgare, striatum, striis rotundis, crassioribus, inter- 



ruptis radiatum, squamosum ex fusco viridescens. 



Gualt. 1. Conch, tab. 102. fg. B ? 



VOL. ir. C 



