118 SOLEN, 



POD RAZOR. 



PI. 26. /. 1, 2. Mr. Sowerby. 



1. Solen Siliqua. S. testa lineari recta; car dine altero bidentato. Linn. 



Syst. Nat. ed. 12. p. 1113. Linn. Gmel. p. 3223. 

 Shell linear, straight ; hinge with a double tooth in one valve. 

 List. Hist. An. Angl. t. 5. f. 37.— Conch, t. 409. f. 255. Plan, Conch. 



t. 3. f. 2. Gualt. Test. pi. 95. f. c. Knorr. Vergn. 6. pi. 7. f. 1. Penn. 



Brit. Zool. ed. 1812. v. 4. p. 171. pi. 48. f. 1. Da Cost. Brit. Conch. 



p. 253. pi. 17. f. 5. Encyclop. Method, pi. 222. f. 2. b. c. Mont. Test. 



Brit. p. 46. Linn. Trans, v. 6. pi. 14. f. 10. & v. 8. p. 43. 

 /3. List. Conch, t. 413. f. inf. Chem. Conch. 6. pi. 4. f. 29. 



A pod-shaped shell, covered with an olive-green 

 epidermis, and striated transversely ; the striae turn 

 across the shell, increasing from the hinge, till they 

 reach the extremity, so as to form a triangular figure, 

 with a pointed apex ; there is a furrow along the back, 

 on each side of the cartilage. The inside is white, 

 with two teeth in one valve, and one in the other ; there 

 are, besides, two remote central laminae. The shell is 

 straight, truncated at one end, and rounded, and turn- 

 ing rather outwards at the other. It measures eight 

 inches, and sometimes more, from end to end. 



This is a common shell on the different European 

 shores, where it is collected for the sake of the fish, as 

 has been already observed in the general observations. 



The variety referred to Lister and Chemnitz, is not 

 a straight, but a curved shell, and was named, by Dr. 

 Solander, Solen incurvatus. 



