Marine Shells of the Pacific, Volume 2The second volume is a sequel to "Marine shells of the Pacific", first published in 1967. The enlarged format offers a more readable type, greater scope for the arrangement of illustrations and the inclusion of almost 600 species of molluscs not includes in volume 1..."--Taken from Authors foreword. |
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20mm in length adductor scar anal canal anteriorly aperture aperture and columella aperture narrow aperture white Australia axial ribs bands beaks body whorl brown in colour callus columella columella calloused concave cream in colour dark brown denticles early whorls Efate elongate Family Figure 5 Shell Fiji Islands folds Genus Gmelin growth-striae Hebrides interior interstices Iredale Lamarck last whorl ligament Linnaeus lirate Manava margin moderately common Nananu-i-Ra Nassarius nodules nodulose oblique obsolete occasionally occurs throughout operculum orange-brown ornamented outer lip ovate parietal wall periostracum Plate plicate posterior prominent ranges westward recurved Reeve Roeding sculptured Shell moderately small Shell small siphonal canal slender Sowerby species is moderately species is uncommon specimens spiral cords spiral grooves spiral rows spiral striae spiral threads spire streaks Strombus Subgenus Superfamily sutures Synonyms throughout the tropical tropical Pacific umbilicus uncommon and ranges Variable in colour varices Viti Levu western Pacific White in colour whorls convex zone