Marine Shells of the PacificOrigin of mollusca, early collectors and expeditions, classification of mollusca, the shell and animal, removal of the radulae, collecting techniques, arranging a shell collection, and photographing shells. |
Contents
THE NEW COLLECTOR | 11 |
REMOVAL OF THE RADULAE | 24 |
PHOTOGRAPHY OF SHELLS | 32 |
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14 inches Africa to Polynesia angulate animal Aperture longer Aperture white axial striae Base white blotches bluish-white body whorl brown spots colour columella smooth columella with 4-5 columella with four conchology Conus coral reefs creamy-white Cymatium Cypraeidae dark brown deeper water denticles Deshayes dorsum fawn Figure Fiji Islands Gastropods Genus Gmelin groove at sutures grooves in interstices HABITAT Hawaiian Islands Indo-Pacific distribution interior of aperture Iredale labial teeth Lamarck Linnaeus lirate longer than spire Mitra Mitridae Moderately common Moderately rare molluscs narrow nodules nodulose nuclear whorls obsolete Olividae orange orange-brown ovate papillae periostracum Plate plicate Polynesia prominent punctate spiral grooves pyriform radula reddish-brown Reeve Roeding Schilder and Schilder sculptured sculptured with spiral shallow and deeper SHELL SIZE:to one inch Sowerby spiral cords spiral ridges spiral striae spotted with brown Steadman and Cotton streaks sutures tentacles Terebra Throughout the tropical transverse bands tropical Indo-Pacific Tropical Pacific Uncommon varices Vexillum