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 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.
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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