... Preliminary Report on the Collection of Mollusca and Brachiopoda Obtained in 1887-'88 |
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880 fathoms Abrolhos Islands adductor altitude of shell aperture beaks bottom temperature Brazil Bull callus canal Cape San Roque cartilage coast Collected at Station color Columbella Comp ctenidia Cuspidaria Dall deep diameter dredged edge elevated elongated epidermis faint fasciole fathoms Fish Commission Station forms front Galapagos Islands GASTROPODS Genus gills globigerina ooze grooves HAB.-Station HAB.-U. S. Fish Commission hinge incremental lines interspaces Jeffreys Lamarck lamellæ last whorl left valve ligament longitude of shell maximum latitude Maximum longitude mollusks narrow nearly nucleus obsolete ooze operculum orifices outer lip pallial line papillæ Pelecypods periphery pillar Plate polished Poromya prominent protoconch ribs ridge right valve rounded sand septum shallow Shell small short siphonal septum slightly smooth soft Solariella species specimens spiral sculpture stout Subgenus Suborder surface suture teeth temperature 370.9 tentacles thin threads transverse sculpture U. S. Fish Commission umbilicus varix Verticordia Zoöl