testacea
Substantiv
Any of various shellfish, especially those of the obsolete orders Vermes or Acephala, or the suborder Thecosomata.
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ANAIMONA, Aquatilia Exanguia, Bloodless Fishes, are divided into Mollia Soft Fishes without Shells; Crustata, those that are covered with thin pliant Shells; and Testacea, those which have thick, hard brittle Shells.
The echinite family […] may be deemed characteristic of the chalk formation, affording of itself as many shells as the other testacea do.
[…]to fancy, for example, that the testacea of the ocean existed first, until some of them, by gradual evolution, were improved into those inhabiting the land.
Substantiv
A testaceous substance, something made of shell or shell-like material.
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