A Manual of the Land and Fresh-water Shells of the British IslandsLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1840 - 324 páginas |
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... epiphragm formed of its inspissated humours , and sometimes hardened with a little calcareous matter . They are all hermaphrodite , but require mutual impregnation , and feed on vegetables ; but some few have carnivorous propensities ...
... epiphragm formed of its inspissated humours , and sometimes hardened with a little calcareous matter . They are all hermaphrodite , but require mutual impregnation , and feed on vegetables ; but some few have carnivorous propensities ...
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... epiphragm ; the latter name has been generally adopted . Montagu has been blamed for calling it an hybernacu◅ lum , but this arises from a mistake . Montagu in- tended by the latter name the hole in which the Lister animal buries ...
... epiphragm ; the latter name has been generally adopted . Montagu has been blamed for calling it an hybernacu◅ lum , but this arises from a mistake . Montagu in- tended by the latter name the hole in which the Lister animal buries ...
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... epiphragm , and the thickening of the outer lip , has been consi- dered a peculiar character of the land Mollusca , but it is now known that pond snails ( Limnæus and Plan- orbis ) , when left dry by the evaporation of the water in ...
... epiphragm , and the thickening of the outer lip , has been consi- dered a peculiar character of the land Mollusca , but it is now known that pond snails ( Limnæus and Plan- orbis ) , when left dry by the evaporation of the water in ...
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... epiphragm membranaceous . 19. 2. HELIX aspersa . Common Snail . ( t .. f . 35. ) Shell somewhat globular , with the surface wrinkled , yellowish - brown or olive , with four brown bands ; whorls four ; mouth roundish lu- nate ; the ...
... epiphragm membranaceous . 19. 2. HELIX aspersa . Common Snail . ( t .. f . 35. ) Shell somewhat globular , with the surface wrinkled , yellowish - brown or olive , with four brown bands ; whorls four ; mouth roundish lu- nate ; the ...
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... epiphragm left by another of the species which had been attached to it . This snail is collected and sold in Covent Garden and other markets , as a cure for diseases of the chest , boiled in milk ; and quantities of them are collected ...
... epiphragm left by another of the species which had been attached to it . This snail is collected and sold in Covent Garden and other markets , as a cure for diseases of the chest , boiled in milk ; and quantities of them are collected ...
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Amanual of the Land and Fresh-water Shells of the British Islands, with ... William Turton Visualização integral - 1840 |
Manual of the Land and Fresh-water Shells of the British Islands: With ... William Turton Visualização integral - 1857 |
Manual of the Land and Fresh-water Shells of the British Islands: With ... William Turton Visualização integral - 1857 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
2d Edition Alder animal aperture bands Brard Brit British brown Bulimus Carychium minimum Clausilia cloth colour Conch conchologists conical convex Cyclas Cyclostoma Dict Drap Draparnaud edge elongate Engravings epiphragm Fauna Fcap Férus Férussac Foolscap 8vo foot genus Helix Hist History horn-colour hortensis Icon Inhab J. C. Loudon Jeffreys Journ Leach Limax Limnæus Linn London longitudinal mantle margin Moll Mollusca Mont Montagu mouth Müller nearly Nilson oblique oblong observes operculum outer lip oval pale Paludina periostraca peristome Pfeiffer Physa Physa fontinalis pillar Pisidium Pisidium amnicum Planorbis Planorbis carinatus Plates Pupa Rossm rounded Shell ovate slightly Snail Sowerby species specimens spiral striæ striated Sturm Succinea teeth tentacles thickened thin Trans transparent Turbo Turton umbilicus Unio Valvata Valvata cristata variety ventricose Verm Vertigo Vertigo alpestris Vignette Titles Vitrina pellucida vols volutions whorls Wood Woodcuts yellowish young shells Zonites Zool
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