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Excerpt from Conchologia Iconica, or Illustrations of the Shells of Molluscous Animals, Vol. 14: Containing Monographs of the Genera Halia, Concholepas, Zizyphinus, Terebellum, Paludina, Cyclotus, Pterocyclos, Chondropoma, Adamsiella, Anastoma, Tridacna, Hippopus, Anatina, Tugonia
The glairy enamel-like surface of this shell shows that. It. Is largely enveloped by the mantle of the animal; in most specimens the permanent contact of the mantle to the under surface being widely marked. It is alwavs of a peculiar fulvous-fawn or nankeen colour, sprinkled in the suture and below the angle of the whorls with bands of small square distant reddish-chestnut spots. The plicate sinuation of the lines of growth at the suture indicates a develolnnent of shell-mattersomewhat analogous to the growth of the shells of the famil\_r to which M. Fischer in elines to refer it.
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