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Title: Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland
Year: 1827 (1820s)
Authors: Brown, Thomas, 1785-1862
Subjects: Mollusks
Publisher: Edinburgh : W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars London : S. Highley
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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in Ency. Brit. vi. p. 424. The animals inhabiting the Pinnae have the power of aHixing themselves at pleasure to any substance, by throwingout an extensile member, and discharging from its tip a drop of gluten, which, by the retraction of the same or-gan, is formed into a silky filament; and by frequently repeating this operation a thick tuft is produced ; from thisa species of silk cloth is manufactured at Palermo and Naples, which is made into dresses, and brings a very highprice. Stockings and gloves are also manufactured from this substance. This shell was much celebrated amongstthe ancients on account of the cloth which was made from its byssus. In the Mediterranean a small species of crab often takes up its abode Mithin the shells of the Pinnae, and is saidto act as a monitor on the approach of danger. Some have attributed this to a kind of hospitality, in the animalgiving protection to this intruder, who, it is likely, is an unwelcome guest to the proper inhabitant. TLATE. 30.
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•inarf Stlifxiu^nh PLATE XXXI. Fig. 1, 2. MYTILUS crinatus. MYTitus crinatus^ Lam, Syst. vi. partie 1, p. 121—Ency. Meth. pi. 217, fig- 3, Mytilus polymorphus, Turtons Linne, iv. p. 300.—Zool. Journ, i. p. 584.—New as a British species, and ascer-tained to inhabit the dock at Portsmouth, by Mr C. Wilcox. Fig. 3. AVICULA anglica. AvicuLA Anglica, Leachs MSS—Discovered on the Devonshire Coast by Dr Leach—In the British Museum. Fig. 4, 5. LIMA sulcata. Lima sulcata, Leachs MSS. Pecten suborbiculatus, Mont. Test. Brit. Sup. p. 63, pi. 29, fig. 2. Fig. 6, 7. LIMA fragilis. Lima fragilis, Browns MSS. Pecten fragilis, Mont. Test. Brit. Sup. p. 62. Fig. 8, 9. LIMA TENERA. Lima tenera, Turtoti in Zool. Journ, ii. p. 362, pi. 13, tig. 2.—This new species was dredged alive in the Britishchannel by Dr Turton—In his cabinet. Fig. 10, 11. LIMA viTRiNA. Lima vitrina, Brorvns MSS.—One valve only of this new shell was found by me at Ballantrae, Ayrshire. It has much the character of

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