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ROOM VIII. shell; phasianella or pheasant-shell; turritella or 
NatThist. screw-shell; murex or woodcock-shell; buccinum 
or welk; harpa or harp-shelly of w^hich there are 
several species; pyrula or pear-shell; pterocera or 
spider-shell; strombus; cassis or cask-shell; do- 
lium or tun; initra or mitre; voluta or volute; 
such as the Ethiopian, melon, and music volutes, 
&c.; oliva or olive-shells; conus or cone, amongst 
which are the admiral and cedo-nulli cones; cyprea 
or cowry, such as the tortoise-shell, map and au¬ 
rora cowries; ovula or egg-shell, of which there 
. are several species; radius or shuttle-shell; bulla 
or bubble-shell; scaphander with its testaceous 
stomach (which has been described as a multivalve 
shell): fourthly, those shells that are covered by 
their animals, who have two tentacula, viz. the 
bullaea, wdth its shelly stomach, and the dolabella 
gigas, or gigantic dolabella: fifthly, those shells 
whose spire is not elevated and whose animals have 
two feelers and no lid, as haliotis or ear-shell, of 
which the red, the Cracherodean and the Iris are 
the most remarkable; the crepidula or slipper- 
shell; calyptreea; mitella; capulus or bonnet-lim¬ 
pet; scutus; emarginula or notched-limpet; fis- 
surella or split-limpet; patella or limpet, of which 
the black, the tortoise, and star limpets are most 
remarkable; various species of Chiton or coat-of- 
mail-shell; two species of a singular genus of the 
same division named cryptoconchus, whose shells 
are internal. 
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