WORMS. TESTACEA. 68. Mytilus. 
489 
A. Parafttical; affixed as it ivere hy claws. 
Shell plaited fpinous; both lips rough. 
Barbut. tab. it.fg, 12. Rumpf. Muf, tab. 47. D. 
Argem). conch, ictb. z<J. D. Peti'v. amb, tab. zo. fig, z, 
Gualt. left. tab. 104 E. Kiiorr. del. tab. B. iv. /ig. 8. 
KnorrPergn. ^.tab. io.fig. 3^5 and 5. t. 16. /• 1. /. ly.f. i-J. 
Chemn. conch. 8. tab. '/(). Jig. 683, O84. 
2. Gualt. test. tab. \o\.fig. D. 
Chemn. conch. 8 tab. fb-Jig. 675. 
3 - hba-vil, catal./vd. 1. tab. 19. fig. IO» 
4 - CAm«, 9. I t6.y%. 998. 
. Inhabits the Indian Ocean and Red Seai affixed to Gorgonia : 
Jbeil purple-violet pale cinnamon Or bay, rough with tailed 
dots, within honey-colour; nearly equivalve- clofed with 
5-8-10 oblique or ftraight acute plaits: hollow at the hinge 
triangular. 
ftTi 
“i. 
Shell plaited hnd imbricate with broad comprelTed fcaless 
both lips Imooth. 
Barbut. tab. tl.fig. 3. Gualt. test. tab. 103. A. 
Argebru. Zoomorph tab. iz.ftg.F, 
Chemn. cqnch. 8. tab. 685. 
Inhabits the Ocean, on beds of Coral ; Jhell dirty grecnifh-yellow 
lamellate, the plaits curved here and there and belet with 
hollow grooved nuclei. 
Shell plaited fmoothifti : one lip rough. 
Argennj. conch, tab. 19. D. Gualt. test. tab. 104. C. 
Knorr I'ergn. 4 tab. ^.fg. 3. 
Born, MuJ Caf. Vind. teji. p. I Z I . niign.jig, b. 
Chemn. conthi 8 . tab. 7 S./£-. 686 . . , . 
Inhabits the American Ocean, on Coral beds : Jhell reddiffi blueilh 
Or brown, generally oval with the margin plaited each fide and 
denticulate : lonver-nialme glabrous and grooved in the middle; 
»pper-val-ve rough with raifed dots at the margin and an ele- 
vated rib in the middle. 
Flat or compreffied into a flattened florm and JlightJy eared. 
^hell flattened, nearly orbicular, W'ith a tranfverfe bafe im^ 
bricatc with toothed tunics, 
Barbut. tab. to. fig. 4, Rumpf Muf. tab, 47. F. 
Argenaiille conch, tab. z O. A. Gnalt. teJi. t. 84./, E, F, G, 
^der. tab. 2 Zi„flg. 56. tab. zzy, ZZ/J, 
Bonan. recr. and Muf. Kirch. Z. Jg. 1. 
amb. aq. tab. ZO. fg. 4 — 7. 
Knorr f'ergn. Z. t. Z^.f. I — 3 and 4. t. 18./. 1. 
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