MUSEUM CALONNIANUM, 
Class I. — Testacea — Coquill'es — Shells. 
Order I. — Marine — Coquilles de Mer — Sea Shells. 
Division I. — Univalves — Coouillage qui n’a qd’une 
seu/e Piece — Consisting of One Piece. 
T^HE operculum, or lid, which clofes up the mouth of the 
fhells of fome genera, when the animal is retired within, either 
for reft or fecurity, and which in fome families is horny, in others 
fliclly, is not taken into die account. 
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Genus I. SERPULA- — Tuyau de Mer, ou Vermiculare 
— Worm. 
1. Retorta — La Retorfe, ou la Cucurbite— Retort — Tranquebar. 
2. Ciavata — La Mafliie d’Hercule — Hercules’s Club — St. Mau- 
ritius — Extremely fcarce, and is remarkable for its internal 
ftnnfture. 
3. Gigantea — Le Grand, ou Le Geant — Great, or Giant— 
China— Very rare. This is 21 inches long. M. P-"A 955 * 
3*. Albida — Le Blanc — White — -St. Domingo— See Species 
it a 1. var. u. 
4. Spiralis — La Spirale — Curled, or Twined — Weft Indies- 
Several detatched, and a group of many. 
5. Cochlearia — Le Tire-bourre Brun — Corkfcrew — Weft Indie* 
— A detached one, and feveral in a clufter. 
6. Semi-cancellata — Le Demi-treiilifsee — Half-latticed — St. Do- 
mingo — An elegant group, with two fmall fcarlet and white fpon- 
dyli and other fliells adhering, and a fmaller group marked a, with 
& like fpondyius, &c. 
7. Semi-muricata — Demi-raboteufe — Llalf-muricated — Sicily. 
7*. Cselata — Le Cifele — Carved — St. Domingo — Very fcarce. 
See Spec. 1021. var.^>. 
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