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The following List of English Trivial Names will 
be found useful to purchasers of shells, as dealers 
most frequently adopt them. It is, however, very 
much to be wished that all names should be 
abolished which are not strictly translations of the 
Linnaean specific ones. The trivial terms are 
mostly derived from some supposed resemblance to 
well-known objects ; and are therefore liable to be 
altered according to the fancy of collectors and 
catalogue-makers, who, in fact, have contrived to 
create as much uncertainty and confusion as could 
be expected from such a source. There are doubt- 
less many technical distinctions which are not 
included in the subjoined enumeration, but the 
greater part of those in common acceptation are so. 
None of those are, of course, inserted which are 
merely rendered from the Latin, as "‘scaly Chiton ” 
from Chiton squamosus, except in a few instances 
where the word is a substantive and not an 
adjective. 
