Avicula

Let it be borne in mind that ‘Avicula’, ‘Mytails’,

Essays 2007

Cordata, Rhynconella (four kinds); among the bivalves are Avicula

Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter

(Avicula margaritifera), still found in abundance in the Persian

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

The pearl-breeding oyster (Avicula margaritifera, Cuvier) abounds on the shoals which extend from Cape Paria to Cape la Vela.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

The pearl-breeding oyster (Avicula margaritifera, Cuvier) abounds on the shoals which extend from Cape Paria to Cape la Vela.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

Some of the critics tell us that the term is used for a little sort of bird, that is worth nothing at all, either for the spit or for the cage, that picks up the seeds that lie uncovered, either in the field or by the way-side, and hops here and there for that purpose -- Avicula parva quae semina in triviis dispersa colligere solet; such a pitiful contemptible animal they took

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

One limestone bed, occurring in a dark shale, seems almost entirely composed of a species of small oyster; and some two or three other thin beds, of what appears to be either a species of small Mytilus or Avicula, mixed up with a few shells resembling large Paludina, and a few more of the gaper family, so closely resembling existing species, that John Stewart and Alister at once challenged them as _smurslin_, the Hebridean name for a well-known shell in these parts, -- the _Mya truncata_.

The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Hugh Miller 1829

Arca Helblingii, _Chemn_.] [Footnote 20: Mr. Cuming informs me that he has forwarded no less than six distinct _Uniones_ from Ceylon to Isaac Lea of Philadelphia for determination or description.] [Footnote 21: M. smaragdinus, _Chemn_.] [Footnote 22: As Avicula.] [Footnote 23: The specimens are not in a fitting state for positive determination.

Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836

_] [Footnote 15: As Avicula.] [Footnote 16: The specimens are not in a fitting state for positive determination.

Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836

[Footnote 1: It is almost unnecessary to say that the shell fish which produces the true Oriental pearls is not an oyster, but belongs to the genus Avicula, or more correctly, Meleagrina.

Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836