Marine Shells of Southern Africa |
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animal Aperture apex Argonaut Bay to Moçambique Bay to Natal Bay to Pondoland Bay to Port bique bivalve body whorl brown marks brownish buff Bullia Cape Peninsula capensis Cellana capensis Coast to Moçambique collection colour brown Colour Plate columella common names Common shells conchologist Conus Cowries cream Cypraea dark brown darker deep water Dr K. H. Barnard Easy to identify edge examples False Bay Family found on beaches Gmelin grey greyish Ground colour white Haliotis Interior Jeffreys Bay Kei Mouth Krauss Lamarck light brown Linn locality margin Moçam mollusca Mossel Bay mottled Mussel Nassa Natal to Moçambique Operculum orange brown outer lip Outer surface pale Patella periostracum Plate 19 Plate 23 Port Alfred Port Elizabeth Port Nolloth purple reddish Reeve Saldanha Bay shape shell collectors shell known smooth Southern Africa Sowerby species spire Table Bay teeth Transkei Coast Turton usually valves white shell yellowish brown