PLATE XXVI 



ANOMIA EPHIPPIUM. 



LARGER OR ONION-PEEL ANOMIA. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bivalve. Valves unequal : one gibbous towards the beak, the other 

 flat, and perforated near the hinge. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Roundish : pellucid, much wrinkled. Flat valve perforated. 



Anomia Ephippium : testa suborbiculata rugosa plicata planiore 



perforata. Gmel. Lin. Syst. Nat. Conch, 

 p. 3340. sp. 3. 



Anomia. Subrotunda plicata pellucida levis, valva planiore perforata. 



Tunica cepae. Da Costa. Br. Conch, p. 

 165. tab. 11. fig. 3. 



Huitre. Pelure d'oignon. Angenv. Conch. 2. p. 316. tab. 22. 



fig. C. 11. p. 277. tab. 19. fig. C. 

 The perforated Oyster. Petiv. Mus. p. $5. No. 323. 

 Anomia Ephippium, larger. Penn. Brit. Zool. No. 70. tab. 62. 



