PLATE LXX. 



MYTILUS BARBATUS* 



BEARDED MUSCLE. 

 GtNERIC CHARACTER.' 



The hinge toothless, and consists of a longitudinal furrow» 



StECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Short, ventricose, obtuse, ferruginous yellow. An oblique space 

 extending from the hinge to the apex, covered with a rude epidermis 

 and irregular filaments. 



Mytilus barbatus : testa iKviuscula ferruginea exterius apice bar- 

 bata. Fn. Suec. 2157. Gmd. Linri. Sj/st. Nat. 

 p. 3353. sp. 10. Chcvin. Conch. 8. t. 84. 

 /. 749. 



In trawling for marine productions In tlie Straits that divides Caer- 

 narvon from Anglesea (Menai) last summer, we found several speci- 

 mens of the Mytilus barbatus of a much larger size than any hitherto 



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