PLATE XLVIIL 



DENTALIUM ENTALIS, 



TOOTH SHELL, 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Animal a Terebella. Shell slender, tubiform* 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS* 



Tubular, conical, somewhat curved, and open at both ends. 



Dentalium Entalis : testa tereti subarcuata continua laevi* 

 Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 3736. 332. sp. 3. a Gmel. 



Dentale laeve album, altera extremitate rufescens. List. H. Conch, 

 tab. 547. fig. 2. 



Tubulus marinus regulariter intortus arcuatim incurvatus, Be versus 

 unam extremitatem acuminatus, dentalis dictus, 

 lsevis, candidus. Gualt. 1. Conch, tab. 10. 

 fig-E. 



Dentale beve, curvum album. Borlase Cornw. p. 276. tab. 28. 

 fig.* 



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