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[Lat.=a harp.] Zool .: Harp shell. A genus of gasteropodous mollusks, family Buccinidae. The shell is ventri cose, ribbed transversely; the spire small; the aperture large, notched in front; the animal with a very large foot. Known species: Recent, twelve, from the Indian Ocean, the Pacific, .; fo il, four, from the Eocene onward. (S. P. Woodward .) har-păc-tiç'-i-dæ, s . pl . [Mod. Lat. harpacti c(us); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -idœ .] Zool .: A family of Entomostracous Crustaceans, legion Lophyropoda, order Copepod a, sect. Gnathostoma. [HARPACTICUS.] 184 species were known from the four great continents and Australia.