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Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp;; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16.
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Montagu, G.
1803
Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures
J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp;; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16
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CLEMAM P0951
World Polychaeta Database (WPolyDb) [corrected garbled author & title fields, March 2016]
Britain
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 Editor's comment
 for Serpula reversa Montagu, 1803

Indeterminable from Montagu's description, which lacked a figure. There is later supposition that he was describing ... [details]
 Original Combination
 for Serpula oblonga (Montagu, 1803)

Vermiculum oblongum Montagu, 1803: 522; also in Fleming (1828: 233) [details]
 Original Combination
 for Spirorbis pervius (Montagu, 1803)

Vermiculum pervium, Vermiculum Montagu, 1803  [details]
 Status
 for 

non-serpulid but Foraminifera, attributed to Vermiculum by Montagu; to Miliola by Brown 1827 [details]
 Taxonomy
 for Sabella cirrata (Müller, 1776)

Here in Testacea Britannica Montagu is including 'Sabella cirrata' based on the tube. He is aware the worm itself ... [details]
 Type locality
 for Helix cantiana Montagu, 1803

"Kent, where it is found chiefly upon the chalky soil" [details]
 Type locality
 for Helix fossaria Montagu, 1803

Britain; “not uncommon in most parts of the kingdom” (Montagu, 1803: 372) [details]
 Type locality
 for Helix trochiformis Montagu, 1803

"Avon in Wiltshire ... Lackham Wood ... wood close to Lord Clifford's house in Devonshire" [details]
 Type locality
 for Turbo biplicatus Montagu, 1803

"Easton Grey in Wiltshire" [details]
 Type locality
 for Turbo laminatus Montagu, 1803

"Lackham wood, in the north of Wiltshire ... at Boxo Wood, the seat of the Marquis of Lansdown ... in Kent, in the ... [details]
 Type locality
 for Turbo ventrosus Montagu, 1803

"Kentish coast, at Folkstone and Sandwich" [details]
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