PLATE CLIV. 



BUCCINUM GLACIALE. 



NORTHERN JVHELK, 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Animal Limax. Shell univalve, spiral, gibbous. Aperture ovate, 

 ending in a short canal or gutter, inclining to the right : tail or beak 

 retuse : inner lip expanded. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Shell smooth, somewhat striated, ovate-oblong ; lower whorl slightly 



carinated. 



BucciNUM CLACIALE : testa laevl substriata ovato-oblonga : an- 

 fractu infimo subcarinato. Linn, Faun. Suec. 

 2\62.^GnieL Sj/st. Nat. 4. 3491. sp. 92. 

 Chemn. Conch. \0 t. 152. 1446, 1447. 



Tritonium CLACIALE, O. Fahv. Faun. Grcenl. No, 397. 



As a native of the North Seas, this shell was well known to Lin- 

 nseus, by whom it was most accurately and minutely described in hi* 



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