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SOLENID^.
All writers on Scandinavian mollusca liave enumerated the present species in tlieir lists, from the Loffoden Isles to Kiel Bay, in 3-50 f.; Collard des Cherres,
Cailliand, and Tasle have found it in Brittany ; M'Andrew dredged it in the south of Portugal, off Gibraltar, in
the Gulf of Tunis, and Sicily, in 15-40 f
. ;
and Weinkauff procured it by the same means at Algiers in 20 f.
This pretty shell was discovered by the Bev. Hugh
Davies about the year 1770 on the Carnarvonshire
coast.
Clark says that on both the mantle-tubes " are
a few, large, rather long, white filaments, springing
fi'om the body of the common sheath, just below the
siphonal orifices/^
I did not observe them in any of
the specimens that I examined. The foot is sometimes
red or pink of various shades. The shells are not imfrequently taken from the stomachs of haddocks. They
are occasionally distorted.
It is the S. pygmceus of Lamarck.
S. pellucidus,
Spengler (from Chemnitz) is a tropical species, from
Nicobar.
B. Shell more or less curved, tubular, and rather solid ; hinge
at one end, and furnished with cardinal and lateral teeth.
Ensis, Schumacher.
2. S. ENsis"^, Linne.
S. ensis, Linn. S. N. p. 1114; F. & H. i. p. 250, pi. xiv. f. 2.
Body somewhat compressed, pale drab : mantle having a
narrow fringed slit in the middle of the anterior side ; tubes
Palermo and Panormi as two places, being misled by Philippi using
both names, in his work on the Sicilian Testacea, sometimes as different
habitats of the same species. Panormus or Panormum is the ancient
name of Palermo.
* Scimitar.
SOLENID^.
All writers on Scandinavian mollusca liave enumerated the present species in tlieir lists, from the Loffoden Isles to Kiel Bay, in 3-50 f.; Collard des Cherres,
Cailliand, and Tasle have found it in Brittany ; M'Andrew dredged it in the south of Portugal, off Gibraltar, in
the Gulf of Tunis, and Sicily, in 15-40 f
. ;
and Weinkauff procured it by the same means at Algiers in 20 f.
This pretty shell was discovered by the Bev. Hugh
Davies about the year 1770 on the Carnarvonshire
coast.
Clark says that on both the mantle-tubes " are
a few, large, rather long, white filaments, springing
fi'om the body of the common sheath, just below the
siphonal orifices/^
I did not observe them in any of
the specimens that I examined. The foot is sometimes
red or pink of various shades. The shells are not imfrequently taken from the stomachs of haddocks. They
are occasionally distorted.
It is the S. pygmceus of Lamarck.
S. pellucidus,
Spengler (from Chemnitz) is a tropical species, from
Nicobar.
B. Shell more or less curved, tubular, and rather solid ; hinge
at one end, and furnished with cardinal and lateral teeth.
Ensis, Schumacher.
2. S. ENsis"^, Linne.
S. ensis, Linn. S. N. p. 1114; F. & H. i. p. 250, pi. xiv. f. 2.
Body somewhat compressed, pale drab : mantle having a
narrow fringed slit in the middle of the anterior side ; tubes
Palermo and Panormi as two places, being misled by Philippi using
both names, in his work on the Sicilian Testacea, sometimes as different
habitats of the same species. Panormus or Panormum is the ancient
name of Palermo.
* Scimitar.