H. tuberculata. The tuberculated Haliotis.
Aperture open the whole length of the shell; outer lip irregular, exterior reddish brown, striated longitudinally and wrinkled transversely, with a few raised tubercles; interior pearly, reflecting the most beautiful shades of pink, blue, green, and yellow.
FAMILY XIII.
Plicacea. Two genera.
1. Tornatella. Six species.
Shell thick, oval, convolute, the spire very short; the last whorl much larger than all the others united; the external thin, sharp, dentated interiorly; one or two large plaits on the columella, of which one serves to separate the two parts of the foot.
Tornatella flammea.
T. solidula.
T. fasciata.
T. auricula.
T. nitidula.