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 seven limpet and univalve shell types.
Figures 1, 2 and 8 – the common limpet, Patella vulgate, referred to in the associated description as Vulgaris common.
Figure 3 – the shield limpet, Lottia pelta, referred to here as the reticulated masque limpet.
Figure 4 – the common slit limpet, Emarginula fissure, referred to here as the Patella fissura.
Figures 5 and 6 – the blue-rayed limpet, Patella pellucida, referred to here as the Patella Coruleata, blue rayed.
Figure 7 – the fool’s cap limpet, Capulus ungaricus, referred to here as the Pileus morionis major.
Figure 9 – an unknown tulip shell, Fasciolaria, referred to here as the Lignaria wood.
Figure 10 – an unknown Navicula shell, referred to as the Navicula pinnace.
Plate 1 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 and 8 – the common limpet, Patella vulgate, referred to in the associated description as Vulgaris common.
Figure 3 – the shield limpet, Lottia pelta, referred to here as the reticulated masque limpet.
Figure 4 – the common slit limpet, Emarginula fissure, referred to here as the Patella fissura.
Figures 5 and 6 – the blue-rayed limpet, Patella pellucida, referred to here as the Patella Coruleata, blue rayed.
Figure 7 – the fool’s cap limpet, Capulus ungaricus, referred to here as the Pileus morionis major.
Figure 9 – an unknown tulip shell, Fasciolaria, referred to here as the Lignaria wood.
Figure 10 – an unknown Navicula shell, referred to as the Navicula pinnace.
Plate 1 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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