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MANUAL OF THE MOLLUSC A. 



alive. The shell is horny and flexible, and always of a greenish 

 colour. 



Distribution, 16 species. India, Philippines, Moluccas, Aus- 

 tralia, Feejees, Sandwich Islands, West America. 



Fossil, 91 species. Lower Silurian — . North America, Europe, 

 Thibet. 



Linguloe existed in the British seas as late as the period of the 

 Coralline Crag. The recent species have been found at small 

 depths, and even at low water half buried in sand. L Davisii, 

 Lower Silurian, Tremadoc, has a pedicle -groove like Oholus, 

 Pig. 205. (Salter.) 



Fig. 205. Ventral valve. Fig. 206. Dorsal valve. 



Obolus Davidsoni. (Salter.) "Wenlock limestone, Dudley. 

 A, posterior adductors ; B, adjustors ; C, anterior adductors. 



The pedicle-scar in the centre of Fig. 168 has no letter. 



Obolus, Eichwald. 



Synonyms, TJngula, Pander ; Aulonotreta, Kutorga. 



Etymology , oholus, a small Greek coin. 



Type, 0. Apollinis, Eichw. 



Shell orbicular, calcareo-corneous, depressed, sub-equivalve, 

 smooth ; hinge-margin thickened inside, and slightly grooved 

 in the ventral valve ; posterior adductor impressions separate ; 

 anterior pair siib-central; impressions of adjustors lateral. 

 Fig. 205, 206. (After Davidson.) 



Fossil, 8 species. Lower and Upper Silurian. Sweden, 

 Eussia, England, United States. 



