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The American province has also sent here representative species; for there is a Galapageian species of Monoceros, a genus only found on the west coast of America; and there are Galapageian species of Fissurella and Cancellaria, genera common on the west coast, but not found (as I am informed by Mr. Cuming) in the central islands of the Pacific.
Chapter XVII 1909
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Fissurella, Patella, and Voluta, all found in the same numeric relations as those in which they now exist upon the beach below.
Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885
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The American province has also sent here representative species; for there is a Galapageian species of Monoceros, a genus only found on the west coast of America; and there are Galapageian species of Fissurella and Cancellaria, genera common on the west coast, but not found (as I am informed by Mr. Cuming) in the central islands of the Pacific.
The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845
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Fissurella, Patella, and Voluta, all found in the same numeric relations as those in which they now exist upon the beach below.
Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Louis Agassiz 1840
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_Fissurella_, _Calyptræa_; of _Concholepas_, only empty shells; a large
A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 Otto von Kotzebue 1816
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Further, there are found here a large _Fissurella_, and six species of a genus which, from its simple, unwound shell, would be immediately taken for a _Patella_; the creature, however, closely resembles the _Fissurella_, with the difference that only one gill is visible in the fissure over the neck.
A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 Otto von Kotzebue 1816
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Galapageian species of Monoceros, a genus only found on the west coast of America; and there are Galapageian species of Fissurella and Cancellaria, genera common on the west coast, but not found (as
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Galapageian species of Monoceros, a genus only found on the west coast of America; and there are Galapageian species of Fissurella and Cancellaria, genera common on the west coast, but not found (as
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