NATiON/Ai 
THE 
LARYNGOID BARNACLE, 
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GENERIC character. 
Animal allied to a Triton. 
Shell multivalve, with unequal valves, affixed 
by the base. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, isfc. 
BARNACLE with whitish, cylindric, annu- 
lated shell. 
Tubicinella major. 
Lamarck Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 0 , 
p. 461, &c. 
The very rare species of Lepas here represented, is 
occasionally found deeply imbedded beneath the skin 
of the larger animals of the Whale tribe, the tip alone 
of the shell appearing above the surface of the skin. 
Of the specimens figured in the present plate, the 
principal groupe is copied from the plate of Mons. 
Lamarck, in the “ Annates du Museum National d'Hts- 
toire Nature Ik;' the single specimen from the Leverian 
Museum. 
