Monographs of the United States Geological Survey, Band 24

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1894
Some nos. accompanied by atlases.
 

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Seite 56 - Suborbicular, with about twenty-five convex ribs, and wrinkled across; inner margin crenate. "Beaks nearly central, a little prominent, curved backward: ribs granulated on the umbones, and transversely wrinkled near the base, convex : apices somewhat prominent beyond the general curve of the shell: inner margin and edge crenate: cardinal teeth two. " Length from the apex to the base four-fifths of an inch, breadth nearly the same. " Rather proportionally longer than the decussata and more oblique.
Seite 35 - Ovate, thick, profoundly and irregularly plicated ; inferior valve ventricose; ribs acute, with arched spiniform scales; cardinal teeth large, curved, laterally striated, crenulated on the margins; larger cardinal tooth in each valve slightly bifid, broad; muscular impression prominent. . . . The valves have about ten folds, and the lower valve closely resembles a variety of Ostrea Virginia/no.
Seite 80 - Shell orbicular, slightly oblique, polished, white, with very minute and numerous concentric wrinkles near the margin, which are obsolete on the disk and umbo ; lateral teeth none ; primary teeth two in the left valve and one in the other ; interior ligament cavity subfusiform, as long as the exterior ligament.
Seite 48 - Shell oblong, compressed, thin, with very numerous radiating granulated striae ; beaks not prominent ; base much contracted or emarginate anterior to the middle; posterior side dilated, the superior margin very oblique and emarginate; extremity angulated, and situated nearer to the line of the hinge than to that of the base; cardinal teeth minute, except towards the extremities of the cardinal line, where they are comparatively very large and oblique; inner margin entire.
Seite 89 - Sci., vol. iii, pt. iv. p. 829. Description. — " Shell oblong, subovate, ventricose; disks with concentric, unequal, shallow grooves; lines of growth coarse and prominent; anterior extremity slightly gaping; anterior margin rounded, anterior dorsal margin elevated; posterior side narrowed, somewhat produced, not reflected; posterior dorsal margin nearly rectilinear; cardinal teeth obliquely compressed, united at base to the nympha, short and not very prominent.
Seite 79 - Shell triangular ; anterior margin obliquely truncated, cordate, suture a little convex ; posterior hinge margin nearly rectilinear, suture indented ; base a little prominent, beyond a regular curve, near the middle ; valves longitudinally striated with numerous, equal, parallel, regular, impressed lines, hardly visible to the unassisted eye, and obsolete on the posterior margin j basal edge within crenate.
Seite 82 - LATERALIS. — Shell triangular, very convex, of a smooth appearance, but with very minute, transverse wrinkles ; lateral margins flattened, cordate, with a rectilinear, sometimes concave profile, one margin rounded at the tip, the other longer and less obtuse ; umbo nearly central, prominent. Length half an inch. Breadth thirteen-twentieths of an inch. Thickness seven-twentieths of an inch. Inhabits the coast of the United States. Cabinet of the Academy and Philadelphia Museum. A very common shell...
Seite 50 - ... within perlaceous, polished, edge strongly crenated; teeth of the hinge robust, the posterior series very distinct and regular. Greatest length, parallel with the posterior margin, three-tenths of an inch. Breadth less than two-fifths of an inch. Inhabits the southern coast. Cabinet of the Academy. Very much resembles JV".
Seite 121 - Shell thick, sub -globose, cinereous, with a black line revolving on the spire above the suture, and becoming gradually diluted, dilated, and obsolete in its course ; within brownish-livid ; a large incrassated callus of the same color extends beyond the columella, and nearly covers the umbilicus from above ; umbilicus with a profound sulcus or duplication.
Seite 119 - Shell suboval, thick, rufo-cinereous ; within whitish ; colunudla incrassated ; callous not continued over the upper part of the umbilicus, hardly extending beyond a line drawn from the base of the columella to the superior angle of the labrum : umbilicus free, simple.

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