Class VI. PECTEN. SCALLOP. 9A9 



GENUS XIV. PECTEN. SCALLOP, 



Animal, a Tethys. 



Valves generally unequal rayed, with auricles 



near the hinge. 

 Hinge toothless, having a small ovated hollow. 



nyima-i^Hn; ■ >■••'■ .. 





' • * One shell flattish. 





' Lin. Syst. WAA. No. 185. Ostrea maxima. Lin. Tr, 



1. MAXIMUS 



': Gm. Lin. 3315. viii. 96. 



great. 



Faun. Suec. No. 2148. Mont. Test. Br. 143. 





List. Angl. tab. v. Jig. 29. 



P. with fourteen rays, very prominent and 

 broad ; striated lengthways above and below ; 

 ears equal. Grows to a large size. Tab. Ixii. 



Found in beds by themselves ; are dredged 

 up, and pickled and barrelled for sale. 



The antients say, that they have the power 

 of removing themselves from place to place by 

 vast springs or leaps.* This shell was called 

 by the Greeks Krf(^^ by the Latins Pecten, and 

 was used by both as a food ; and when dressed 



* Arist. Hist. An. lib, iv. c. 4. 



