6. Crepidula. The Slipper Limpet. Six species.

Very similar to the Navicella, but distinguished from it by not having

an operculum.

Shell irregular, form very variable, depressed or compressed; spire

obliquely inclined to one side; margin entire; cavity large, divided by

a horizontal partition, which gives it the form of a half-decked boat.

Crepidula fornicata.

C. porcellana.

C. aculeata.

C. unguiformis.

C. dilatata.

C. Peruviana.

_C. porcellana._ The brown-spotted Crepidula.

Shell thick, flat, summit not spiral.

_C. aculeata._ The prickly Crepidula.

Oval, brown, roughly striated, vertex recurved, interior blue or purple.

_C. sub-spirata._ The sub-spiral Crepidula. Pl. 32, fig. 2.

Species almost round, summit sub-spiral; colour yellowish white, with a

bluish tinge towards the summit.

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