Excerpt from The Natural History of British Shells, Vol. 5: Including Figures and Descriptions of All the Species Hitherto Discovered in Great Britain, Systematically Arranged in the Linnean Manner, With Scientific and General Observations on Each
Dentalium testa membranacea cylindracea, ligno 1userra. 1mm. En. Suec. 1.p. 380. No. 1329.
Serpula testa cylindracea flexuosa, lignum perforans. Teredo. Da Costa. Brit. Cone/z. P. 21. Sp. 11. Sellz'us Hist. Nat. Tered. Buster, Phil. Trans. 61.
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