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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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. Serpula triquetra, Mont. Test. Brit. p. 511—LiJin. Trans, vjii. p. 244. Fig. 2, 3. SERPULA vermicularis. Serpula vermicularis. Lam. Syst. v. p. 362.—Mont. Test. Brit. p. 509—Bronm in Ency. Brit. vi. p. 468. Fig. 9, 10. SERPULA tubularia. Serpula tubularia, Mont. Test. Brit. p. 513.—Flemi9ig in Edin. Ency. vii. p. 67, pi. 204, fig. 9.—Brown in Ency.Brit. vi. p. 468. Fig. 6. SERPULA serrulata. Serpula serrulata, Fleming in Edin. Ency. vii. p. 67, pi. 204, fig. 8. This new species was discovered by Dr Fleming, adhering to stones brought from deep water ofli the coast of Zet-land. Fig. 4. SERPULA contortus. Serpula contortus. Browns MSS.—A new shell. Found by General Bingham at Dunbar, and in his Cabinet. Fig. 6. SERPULA spiralis. Serpula spiralis. Browns MSS—A new species, found at Dunbar by General Bingham, and in his Cabinet. Fig. 7- SERPULA perversa. Serpula perversa, Browns MSS.—A new specie.s, found at Dunbar by General Bingham, and in his Cabinet. T*)L. AT:ii., 2.
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7fru/f^i€^i ^V VMJ-i*^^T^-Jinlnffy^ Dttufit In/ Otp^/ffi^/tm^ PLATE III.TEREDO NAVALis. Teredo navalis. Lam. Syst. v. p. 440.—Mont. Test. Brit. p. 527—Donov. Brit. Sh. pi. 145.—Mat. and Rack,in Lin. Tr. viii. p. 449. This shell was long considered by naturalists as a simple tube; but it has since been discovered that, at thesmaller end, it has two minute valves, which are attached to the head of the animal, and are of a hemisphericform, somewhat projecting in front, pointed and longitudinally striated. This species is well known to mariners by the name of the Ship-Worm, from its burrowing in the bottoms ofships, and other timber which remains any length of time under water. This destructive animal was first in-troduced by vessels from tropical climates, and has now become naturalized to our temperate region; and iscommon in Plymouth dock, and the East and West India docks on the Thames. Piles of the hardest oak sel-dom last more than four or five years in places where this she

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