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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... entirely new work , which would not have cost me nearly so much trouble as editing the present one . I have only further to return my thanks for the kind and friendly assistance which I have received from Mr. viii PREFACE .
... entirely new work , which would not have cost me nearly so much trouble as editing the present one . I have only further to return my thanks for the kind and friendly assistance which I have received from Mr. viii PREFACE .
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... nearly allied British species ; and others have been described from specimens which have been accidentally intermixed with British shells in the cabinets of careless collectors ; but it is also to be feared that some have been wilfully ...
... nearly allied British species ; and others have been described from specimens which have been accidentally intermixed with British shells in the cabinets of careless collectors ; but it is also to be feared that some have been wilfully ...
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... nearly uniform , size , compared with those of the rest of Europe . Thus I have never seen Lymneus stagnalis , Paludina achatina or crys- tallina , so large as those found in the south - eastern part of Germany ; or Helix nemoralis ...
... nearly uniform , size , compared with those of the rest of Europe . Thus I have never seen Lymneus stagnalis , Paludina achatina or crys- tallina , so large as those found in the south - eastern part of Germany ; or Helix nemoralis ...
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... Nearly three fourths of our species , that is to say , 91 out of the 126 , are recorded by Pfeiffer as inhabit- ing Germany ; and the Germans have 80 species which are wanting to our Fauna ; but it is remarkable that they have not some ...
... Nearly three fourths of our species , that is to say , 91 out of the 126 , are recorded by Pfeiffer as inhabit- ing Germany ; and the Germans have 80 species which are wanting to our Fauna ; but it is remarkable that they have not some ...
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... nearly fresh , at the very highest tides , as at Greenwich , for example . Paludina vivipara and P. achatina are not found in the northern part of the island . P. crystallina is found in the rivers of Cambridgeshire , Oxfordshire ...
... nearly fresh , at the very highest tides , as at Greenwich , for example . Paludina vivipara and P. achatina are not found in the northern part of the island . P. crystallina is found in the rivers of Cambridgeshire , Oxfordshire ...
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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 |
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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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