A guide to the shell and starfish galleries
by F. J. Bell R. Kirkpatrick E. A. Smith British Museum . Department of Zoology
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Chapters (166)
- A GUIDE TO THE SHELL AND STARFISH GALLERIES (MOLLUSCA, POLYZOA, BRACHIOPODA, TUNICATA, ECHINODERMA, AND WORMS).
- PREFACE.
- TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- GENERAL NOTES ON MOLLUSCA.
- Class I.—AMPHINEURA.
- Class II.—GASTROPODA.
- Section Streptoneura.
- Section Euthyneura.
- Class III.—SCAPHOPODA.[5]
- Class IV.—LAMELLIBRANCHIA.[6]
- Protobranchia. (Fig. 25, A.)
- Filibranchia. (Fig. 25, B.)
- Pseudolamellibranchia.
- Eulamellibranchia. (Fig. 25, C.)
- Septibranchia. (Fig. 25, D.)
- Class V.—CEPHALOPODA.[9]
- ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF THE FAMILIES AND PRINCIPAL GENERA OF MOLLUSCA EXHIBITED IN THE SHELL GALLERY.
- POLYZOA.
- Sub-order 1.—Chilostomata.
- Sub-order 2.—Ctenostomata.
- Sub-order 3.—Cyclostomata.
- Order II.—Phylactolæmata.
- BRACHIOPODA.
- Section I.—Inarticulata.
- Section II.—Articulata.
- TUNICATA.
- Order I.—Ascidiacea.
- Sub-order 1.—Ascidiæ Simplices.
- Sub-order 2.—Ascidiæ Compositæ.
- Sub-order 3.—Ascidæ Salpiformes.
- Order II.—Thaliacea.
- Order III.—Larvacea.
- THE STARFISH GALLERY.
- ECHINODERMA.
- WORMS.
- INDEX.
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