Class VI. DENTALIUM. 355 



GENUS XXXII. DENTALIUM. 



Animal, a Terebella. 



Shell slender, tubiform, mostly pervious. 



Lin. Syst. 1263. No. 786. Faun. Suec. No. 2201. 1. entalis. 



Gm. Lin. 3736. Lin. Tr. viii. 237- common. 



List. Conch, tab. 547. fg. 2. Moni. Test. Br. 494. 



D. with a slender shell, a little bending ; per- 

 vious ; length near an inch and a half. 



Inhabits most of our seas. Ja^. xciii.^^. 5. • 



Gm. Lin. 3736. D. striatum. Mont. Test. Br. 2. dentalis. 



Lin. Tr. viii. 237- 495. id. Sup. 136. 



* D. with a white tubular shell, having a few 

 faint annulets at the larger end, and twenty 

 strice, rather bent, interrupted ; length half an 

 inch ; inhabits the sea on the western coast. 



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