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LIBER IX · CAPUT 32

THE VARIOUS KINDS OF CRABS; THE PINNOTHERES, THE SEA URCHIN, COCKLES, AND SCALLOPS

THE VARIOUS KINDS OF CRABS; THE PINNOTHERES, THE SEA URCHIN, COCKLES, AND SCALLOPS · EDITORIAL PLATE IX.32 · modern editorial plate
THE VARIOUS KINDS OF CRABS; THE PINNOTHERES, THE SEA URCHIN, COCKLES, AND SCALLOPS. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

In eodem genere cocleae aquatiles terrestresque, exerentes se domicilio binaque ceu cornua protendentes contrahentesque, oculis carent, itaque corniculis praetemptant iter.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

To the same genus also belong both land and water snails, which thrust the body forth from their abode, and extend or contract two horns, as it were. They are without eyes, and have, therefore, to feel their way, by means of these horns.