Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.18166

    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
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > landscape
          > shell
    Description
    Conchological study of four clam and piddock shell types.

    Figure 1 – the giant clam, Chama gigas, referred to in the associated description as Chama truncate.
    Figure 2 – the common piddock, Pholas dactylus, referred to here as Pholas muricatus.
    Figure 3 – a Pinna muricata shell, referred to here as the same.
    Figure 4 – the great piddock, Zirfaea crispate, referred to here as a Pholas bifrons.

    Plate 16 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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