SOLEN.
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Habitat : Large sandy bays at low-water mark of
spring tides in the under-mentioned localities : Christchurchy Hants (Da Costa) ; Exmouth ; Bideford ; North
and South Wales; south, east, and west of Ireland. It
is thrown up in the greatest profusion on the sands at
Pendine in Carmarthenshire.
Mr. Grainger found a
single valve in the Belfast deposit ; and Mr. James Smith
has included it in the list of Argyleshire fossils. North
of Great Britain it has only been recorded by Miiller as
Scandinavian; but its southern range extends from
Brittany to Sicily and Algeria. Mr. M*^Andrew dredged
it on the coast of Portugal in 15 to 20 f., and off
Malaga in 4 f. ; and he obtained it on the shore at
Mogador. According to Weinkauff it is common at
Bona in brackish water.
This elegant shell was first recognized as English by
Lister.
I must venture to dissent from Linne and subsequent writers, who referred it to ^Le Molan' of Adanson.
It is the Hypogcsa Mrudo of Poli.
Genus III. SOLEN ^ Linn^. PI. I. f. 3.
Body narrow: mantle thickened in front: tubes for the
most part united, nearly sessile, or extensile in a Hmited degree : foot flexible, when in action conical and pointed, but
when at rest disk-like.
Shell cylindrical, very inequilateral, divided into diagonal
compartments, sculptured only by the lines of growth : teeth,
one cardinal in the right valve, and mostly two in the left
laterals partly erect, sometimes wanting : jjcdlial scar having
a narrow sinus at the posterior extremity.
This kind of shell-fish was well known to the ancients j and the estimation in which they held it as an
article of food induced them to observe its habits with
* Eazorfish ; supposed to be the SwX?}v of Aristotle.
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Habitat : Large sandy bays at low-water mark of
spring tides in the under-mentioned localities : Christchurchy Hants (Da Costa) ; Exmouth ; Bideford ; North
and South Wales; south, east, and west of Ireland. It
is thrown up in the greatest profusion on the sands at
Pendine in Carmarthenshire.
Mr. Grainger found a
single valve in the Belfast deposit ; and Mr. James Smith
has included it in the list of Argyleshire fossils. North
of Great Britain it has only been recorded by Miiller as
Scandinavian; but its southern range extends from
Brittany to Sicily and Algeria. Mr. M*^Andrew dredged
it on the coast of Portugal in 15 to 20 f., and off
Malaga in 4 f. ; and he obtained it on the shore at
Mogador. According to Weinkauff it is common at
Bona in brackish water.
This elegant shell was first recognized as English by
Lister.
I must venture to dissent from Linne and subsequent writers, who referred it to ^Le Molan' of Adanson.
It is the Hypogcsa Mrudo of Poli.
Genus III. SOLEN ^ Linn^. PI. I. f. 3.
Body narrow: mantle thickened in front: tubes for the
most part united, nearly sessile, or extensile in a Hmited degree : foot flexible, when in action conical and pointed, but
when at rest disk-like.
Shell cylindrical, very inequilateral, divided into diagonal
compartments, sculptured only by the lines of growth : teeth,
one cardinal in the right valve, and mostly two in the left
laterals partly erect, sometimes wanting : jjcdlial scar having
a narrow sinus at the posterior extremity.
This kind of shell-fish was well known to the ancients j and the estimation in which they held it as an
article of food induced them to observe its habits with
* Eazorfish ; supposed to be the SwX?}v of Aristotle.