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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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, andlive in moss, at the foot of trees, &c. \ greatnumber of them are reversed. The Achatina, Lam.—Ought likewise to be separated from the BuIIib ofLinnaeus, and brought hither. The oval or ob-long shell has tlie aperture of liuliraus, but is notmargined ; and has the extremity of the colu-mella truncated, which is the first index of theeraarginations we find in so many of the shellsof the marine Gasteropodes. These Achatinffiare large Snails which feed on trees and shrubsin hot climates.t Of such as have, within thelast whorl, a callus or particular thickening,Montfort makes his genus Li(/um. The body-whorl is proportionably naiTow; and when theFig.!«).-.(. .ii„« Kig. loi.-A. virginen. ^^^ ^f j)jg Columella is curved towards the in- side of the aperture, and the body-whorl is broader, the species constitute Montforts Polyphemes. • The n(c is Iti ilosc the a^terlure of (lie sliull wht-n the Snail lins | sliells : some are West Imliiin. itml a verr few European. Amting the
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350 MOLLUSCA. The Aouatic Pulmonea have only two tentacula. They come ever and anon to t!iesurface to breathe, so that they can only inhabit waters of inconsiilerable depth : thus theylive in fresh waters or in brackish pools, or at least near the sides and mouths of rivers. There aie some amongst them without a shell: such is the Onchidium, Cuv.* A large fleshy cloak, of the shape of a buckler, overlaps the foot on every side, and even covers thehead when this is contracted. It has two long retractile tentacula, and over the mouth a veil, siiiu-ated, or formed of two triangidar compressed lobes. The anus and air-passage arc under the hindermargin of the cloak, where, a little deeper, we find also the pulmonary sac. Near them, to the right,is the opening of the female organs, wlule, on the contrary, that of the male organ is under the righttentaculura; and these two orifices are united by a groove which runs under and along the right edgeof the cloak. Destitute of jaws, they have a mu
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