Shell specimens
Date
1778
Creator
Emanuel Mendes da Costa (1717 - 1791) , Naturalist
Object type
Library reference
55208
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (page): 290mm
width (page): 225mm
height (print): 230mm
width (print): 185mm
width (page): 225mm
height (print): 230mm
width (print): 185mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Conchological study of three scallop shell types.
Figures 1, 2, 4, 5, 7 and 9 – the variegated scallop, Mimachlamys varia, referred to in the associated description as Pecten monotis.
Figures 3 and 6 – the humpback scallop, Talochlamys pusio, referred to here as Pecten distortus.
Figure 8 – the queen scallop, Aequipected opercularis, referred to here as Pecten lineatus.
Plate 10 from Emanuel Mendes da Costa's Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniae, or, The British conchology: containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1778), illustrated with figures, text in English and French.
Emanuel Mendes da Costa (1717-1791) naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1747.
Figures 1, 2, 4, 5, 7 and 9 – the variegated scallop, Mimachlamys varia, referred to in the associated description as Pecten monotis.
Figures 3 and 6 – the humpback scallop, Talochlamys pusio, referred to here as Pecten distortus.
Figure 8 – the queen scallop, Aequipected opercularis, referred to here as Pecten lineatus.
Plate 10 from Emanuel Mendes da Costa's Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniae, or, The British conchology: containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1778), illustrated with figures, text in English and French.
Emanuel Mendes da Costa (1717-1791) naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1747.
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