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Nature, Gardens & Animals
A Manual of Conchology
Thomas Wyatt
157 pages~3 hr 8 min read297 chapters$4.99
An orderly key to the mollusks and their shells, arranged family by family. Thomas Wyatt walks the collector from the marine worms in their tubes through the great classes of shelled life, naming genera and species along the way. A compact nineteenth-century handbook for the cabinet. Bring system to a drawer full of shells.
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297 chapters
- 1A MANUAL OF CONCHOLOGY, ACCORDING TO THE SYSTEM LAID DOWN BY LAMARCK, WITH THE LATE IMPROVEMENTS BY DE BLAINVILLE. EXEMPLIFIED AND ARRANGED FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS.
- 2INTRODUCTION.
- 3ARRANGEMENT.
- 4CLASS I. ANNELIDES. CONTAINS FOUR FAMILIES.
- 5FAMILY I. Dorsaliæ. Two genera.
- 61. Arenicola. Has no shell. One species.
- 72. Siliquaria. Four species.
- 8FAMILY II. Maldaniæ. Two genera.
- 91. Clymene. One species.
- 102. Dentalium. The Tooth Shell. Twelve species.
- 11FAMILY III. Amphitritæa. Four genera.
- 121. Pectinaria. Two species.
- 132. Sabellaria. Two species.
- 143. Terebella. Three species.
- 154. Amphitrite. Six species.
- 16FAMILY IV. Serpulacea. Five genera.
- 171. Spirorbis. Five species.
- 182. Serpula. The Worm Shell. Twenty-six species.
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