The natural history of British shells, including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discovered in Great Britain .. . PLATE LXX. MYTILUS BARBaTUS. BEARDED CHARACTER. The hinge toothless, and consists of a longitudinal furrow. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Short, ventricose, obtuse, ferruginous yellow. An oblique spaceextending from the hinge to the apexj covered with a rude epidermisand irregular filaments. Mytilus barbatus : testa lseviuscula ferruginea exterius apice bar-bata. Fn. Suec. 2157. Gmel. Linn. Syst. 3353. sp. 10. Chemn. Conch. 8. t.
The natural history of British shells, including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discovered in Great Britain .. . PLATE LXX. MYTILUS BARBaTUS. BEARDED CHARACTER. The hinge toothless, and consists of a longitudinal furrow. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS. Short, ventricose, obtuse, ferruginous yellow. An oblique spaceextending from the hinge to the apexj covered with a rude epidermisand irregular filaments. Mytilus barbatus : testa lseviuscula ferruginea exterius apice bar-bata. Fn. Suec. 2157. Gmel. Linn. Syst. 3353. sp. 10. Chemn. Conch. 8. t. 749. In trawling for marine productions in the Straits that divides Caer-narvon from Anglesea (Menai) last summer, we found several speci-mens of the Mytilus barbatus of a much larger size than any hitherto h 2 PLATE LXX. described by authors, as the figures in the annexed plate will fullyexpress. Da Costa has not noticed this species, though it must have beenknown to him from the figures and descriptions in Pennants Zoology,where it stands under the name of M. Curtus. sp. 16. A. Short. Pen«nants specimen scarcely exceeds the s
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