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DONAX. WEDGE-SHELL. Class VI. 



GENUS X. DONAX. WEDGE-SHELL. 



Animal, a Tethys. 



Shell with the frontal margin very blunt. 

 Hinge with two teeth on the middle, and 

 sometimes one marginal, somewhat remote. 



I.truncu- Lin. Syst. 1127- No. 105. Conch, tab. 376. s. 217. 



lcs. Gm. Lin. 8263. Lin. Tr. vi. t. \6. f. 13— \6. 



Faun. Suec. No. 2142. List. %b. viii. 74. 



Angl. tab. v. fig. 35. Mont. Test. Br. 103. 



D. with a glossy shell, of a whitish color tinged 

 with dirty yellow, and marked lengthways with 

 many elegant minute strice ; the inside purple. 

 Breadth an inch and a tenth. Tab. \\m. Jig. 1. 



2. COMPLA- 

 NATA. 



Lin. Tr. viii. 75. 



Mont. Test. Br. 106. t. 5. f. 4. 



* D. with an oblong shell, very smooth or 

 glossy; edges perfectly entire; length five- 

 eighths of an inch, breadth an inch and a 

 quarter. 



Inhabits the coasts of Devon, Dorset, and 

 Cornwall. 



