114 COCHLICELLA. 



CLISIPHONITES. Montf. Microscopic. Lenticulina, BL 



CLITHON. Montf. 1810. Neeitina Corona, spinosa, &c. Auct. 

 fig. 325. 



CLITIA. Leacli. Fam. Balanidea, Bl. Order, Sessile Cirripedes, 

 Lam.— Descr. Sub-conical, compressed, consisting of four un- 

 equal valves, two larger and two smaller, joined iogetker side 

 by side, by the interlocking of their dentated edges, a process 

 somewhat like that which joiners caU dove-tailing. Operculum, 

 consisting of two unequal pointed valves. — Obs. Clitia is known 

 from Creusia, by the articulations of the valves, and by the 

 operculum, which in Creusia consists of four valves. C. Verruca, 

 (Lepas Verruca, Grmelin.) Britain and Peru. PI. i. fig. 20. 



CLOSE. The margins of a bivalve shell are described as being 

 close, when there is no hiatus between them in any part, other- 

 wise they are described as gaping. 



CLOTHO. Eaujas. Fam. Conchacea, Bl. More properly belong- 

 ing to the Pyloridea, Bl. ; and the Lithophagidae, Lam. — Descr. 

 " Oval, nearly regular, longitudinally striated, equivalve, sub- 

 equilateral ; hinge consisting of a bifid tooth, curved like a 

 crochet, larger in one valve than m the other." This description 

 is translated from Blainville, who states that he has never seen 

 the shell. Annales du Museum D'liistoire NaturelLe, torn. 9, 

 pi. 17, fig. 4—6. 



CLTPEIEOEM. (Clypeus, a shield.) Open, flat, shaped like a 

 shield or buckler, as Umbrella, fig. 233, and Parmaphorus, fig. 

 242. 



CLTPIDELLA. Sw. A sub-genus of Eissurella, described as 

 having one extremity of the shell slightly raised. C. pustula, 

 Sow. Gen. fig. 3. 



COAT OE MAIL. A common name given to shells of the genus 

 Chitok, on account of their resemblance to jointed armour. 



COBEESIA. Hiibner. Viteina, Draparnaud. 



COCHLEATE. (CocA/eare, a spoon.) Applied to any shell or part 

 which is hollow and oval, as PateUse, &c. The cavity containing 

 the cartilage in Mya, fig. 71, is Cochleate. 



COCHLICELLA. One of the sub-genera into which De Eerrusac 



