PLATE XLIV. 



VENUS VERRUCOSA. 



WART ED VENUS SHELL. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bivalve. Hinge furnished with three teeth ; two near each other 8 

 the third divergent from the beaks. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Somewhat heart shaped. Deeply decussated on the sides, with 

 transverse and oblique furrows, which form membraneous protube-? 

 ranees or warts. Margins finely crenated. 



Venus Verrucosa : testa subcordata : sulcis membranaceis striatic 

 reflexis, antice imprimis, verrucosis, margine cre~ 

 nulato. Linn. Sj/st. Nat. p. 1130. No. 116. 



Pectunculus omnium crassissimus, fasciis ex latere bullatis donatus v 

 List. H. Conch, tab. 284. fig. 122. 



Concha marina valvis aequalibus aequalitera, notabiliter umbonata et 

 oblique incurvata, subrotunda, vulgaris, striis cir- 

 cularibus profundis, elatis, bullatis exasperata, et 

 circumcata, crassa, subalbida. Gualt. 1. Conch r 

 tab. 15. fig. H. 



Concha cinerea densa, margine dentate, striis rugosis et 6 lateribus 

 undose tuberculosis. The wrinkled, notched, and 

 high-beaked concha, or cockle, Bgrlase Cornw, 

 p. 278, tab, 28, fig, 22, 



