GASTEROPODA. 



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S^ynonym, Chenopup, Philippi. 



Type, A. pes-pelecani. PL IV., Fig. 7, and Fig. 99. 



Shell v^iih. an elongated spire ; whorls numerous, tuberculated; 

 aperture narrow, with, a short canal in front ; outer lip of the 

 adult expanded and lobed oi digitated ; operculum pointed, 

 lamellar. 



Animal with a short broad muzzle; tentacles cylindrical, 

 bearing the eyes on prominences near their bases, outside; 

 foot short, angular in front ; branchial plume single, long ; 



Fis;. 99.* 



lingual ribbon linear ; teeth single, hooked, denticulated ; 

 uncini 3, the first transverse, 2 and 3 claw-shaped (Fig. 100). 

 The dentition of Aporrhais is most like Stromhus and Carinaria ; 

 and quite unlike the Oerithiadce with which it has been placed, 



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Fig. 100. Aporrhdis pes-pelecani. (Warington.) 



in accordance with the views of Professor Forbes. The animal 

 is carnivorous. 



Distribution, 4 species. Labrador, Norway, Britain, Mediter- 

 ranear, West Africa. Eange 100 fathoms. 



Fossil; see Fteroceras and Rostellaria ; above 200 species, 

 ranging from the lias to the chalk, probably belong to this 

 genus, or to genera not yet constituted. 



* Fig. 99. Aporrhais pes-pelcani, L., from a drawing by Joshua Alder, Esq., in the 

 "British Mollusca." 



