History of British animals - University of Guam Marine Laboratory

Buccinum. MOLLUSCA. BUCCINID.E. 343spiral ridges and intermediate striae, crossed by the lines ofgrowth, and waved furrows on the upper whorls.B. crassum rufescens, List. An. Ang. 156. t. cxi. f. 2, 3. Conch, t. cccclxii.f. 14, 15. Linn. Svst. i. 1204 B. und. and striatum, Penn. Brit.Zool. 121. t. lxxiii." f. 90, t. lxxiv. f. 91—B. und. Mont. Test. Brit.237 Common beyond low water-mark.Length from 3 to 5 inches, breadth upwards of 2 ; shell white, sometimestinged with brown or pink, the cuticle is brown, with numerous longitudinalridges of short hairs ;whorls rounded the ; body whorl of the female — largein proportion; the spiral ridges are crossed by the lines of growth. Thisspecies is used as a bait, and caught in baskets in which carrion is placed.317. B. glaciate.— Whorls nine, tapering, obsoletelystriatedspirally, finely striated longitudinally upper whorls with lon-;gitudinal waved furrows, the body whorl with a spiral ridge.Linn. Syst.i. 1204. Don. Brit. Shells, t. cliv—In the north seas, rare.Length about 2 inches, breadth less than 1 ; white, with a reddish tinge,the keel on the body whorl vanishes on the superior ones ; this shell is moreproduced, and the longitudinal furrows better marked, than in the precedingspecies—It appears to have been found in Orkney by Mr Agnew, gardenerto the Duchess of Portland. I possess a slightly mutilated specimen, whichI found in Zetland.318. B. carinatum.— Shell oblong, oval ;whorls seven, thin,inflated with an elevated circular rib at the top of each, fromwhich they suddenly slopeto the separating line.Turt. Conch. Diet. 13. t. xxvi. f. 94.— Irish coast, Mr O'Kellv and Mi-Tardy.Length A\ inches, breadth 2^ ; white, with a broad rufous band round themiddle of each whorl ; spirally and longitudinally striated, with obsoletelongitudinal ribs the ; body whorl is swollen, but the upper ones are flattened; aperture dilated ; outer lip with a thick edge, inner lip smooth andspread on the pillar.319. B. anglicanum.— Shell thin; whorls eight, stronglystriated spirallywith waved longitudinal ridges on the upperpart of the whorls lower ; part of the body whorl nearlysmooth.List. Conch, t. Dcccclxiii. f. 17 B. ang. Lam. Syst. vii. 264 B. Humphreysianum,Bennet, Zool. Journ. i. 398. t. xxii—Zetland and Cork,Length 2 inches, breadth 1 inch ; shell white ; the cuticle brown, pilose,sometimes with reddish-brown spiral bands ; whorls slightly rounded, and alittle depressed above towards the separating line ; the spiral striae seem tovary in size as well as the longitudinal furrows, in different specimens ; thestrise produced by the lines of growth are numerous and fine ; apertureovate; pillar smooth or wrinkled.— In 1809, I found two specimens of thisshell in Zetland, in a fishing-boat, brought from deep water ; those describedby Mr Bennet were found in the harbour of Cork by Mr Humphreys.320. B. ovum.—" Shell oval, inflated, thin, ivory white,smooth ;volutions six, tumid ;outer lipthin and smooth.Turton, Zool. Journ. ii, 366. t. xiii. f. 9. — Plymouth Sound.