

PLATE XCV. 



SERPULA VERMICULARIS, 



COMMON SERPULA, 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Animal a terebella, or whimble worm. Shell tabular, adheres tfc» 

 other bodies, as shells, stones, &c. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Shell round, cylindrical, or scarcely tapering, curved and wrinkled, 



Serpula Vermicularis : testa tereti subulata curvata rugosa„ 

 Lin. Syst. Nat. a Gmel. T. I. fig, 4. p. 3741. 

 — Dentalium testa cylindracea inasquali flexuosa 

 contorta. Lin. Fn. Sv. I. p. 380. No. 1328, 



Tubuli in quibus vermes. Worm Shells. Merret, Pin. p. 194. 



Serpula vermicularis. Worm. Penn. Brit. ZooL No. 157„ 

 tab. 91. fig. 159. 



Serpulae vermicularis, common. Da Costa Br. Conch, p. 18. sp. 9, 

 — Tab. 2. fig. 5. 



Those shells are extremely frequent on all the British coasts, either 

 in groupes attached to stones, shells and marine exuviae, or in single 



