Tropical Pacific Marine Shells |
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Shell collecting as a hobby | 13 |
Molluscan classification | 19 |
BIVALVIA | 177 |
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20mm in length Adams angulate angulate axial ribs anteriorly aperture lirate aperture narrow aperture white axial riblets axial striae basally base of shell bisected blotches BMNH body whorl body whorl sculptured brown in colour brown spots calloused callus columella columella smooth columellar callus concave Conus dark brown denticles Deshayes elongate-ovate Family fathoms Figure 2 Shell folds fusiformly-elongate Genus Gmelin granulose Holotype Hwass inches Indo-West Pacific interior interspaces intertidal and subtidal Lamarck Linnaeus lirate margin Moderately common Moderately rare Nassarius nodulose oblique cords obsolete spiral operculum orange-brown ornamented outer lip thickened pale Pease Plate posterior presutural prominent protoconch purple-brown reddish-brown Reeve riblets Roeding rows of nodules sculptured with numerous shoulder angulate siphonal canal siphonal fasciole slightly solid Sowerby species specimens spiral cords spiral grooves spiral rows spiral striae spiral threads spire whorls subangulate Subgenus Superfamily sutures synonym Tropical Indo-Pacific Tropical Pacific Uncommon usually varices West Pacific White in colour whorls convex