PLATE XII. 



OSTREA SUBRUFUS. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Animal a Tethys. Shell bivalve unequal. The hinge without a tooth, 

 having a small oval cavity. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Shell thin. Twenty longitudinal rays, finely striated; ears unequal ; 

 colours various ; generally red. 



Pecten tenuis, subrufus, maculosus, circiter viginti striis majori- 

 bus, at laevibus, donatus. List. H. An. Angl. 

 p. 85. tab. 5. Jig. 30. 

 Pecten subrufus. Penn. Br. Zool. No. 63. tab. 60. Jig. 63. 

 Pecten Pictus : mediocris, fere aequivalvis, tenuis, variis coloribus 

 perbelle variegatus. Da Costa. Br. Conch, p. 

 144. fp. 3. 

 Pectunculus pennatus striis dense notatus, luteo purpurascens. Pecten 

 altis striis albo purpureis transverse variegatis insignis; 

 & Pectunculus purpurascens vittis albis circularibus 

 variegatus. Borlase Cornw. p. 277. tab. 28. fig. 

 18, 21 and 22. 



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