Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Volume III, 1863-1867Various
Science
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Volume III, 1863-1867
Various
California Academy of Sciences -- Periodicals; Science -- Periodicals
Animal album; testa sub-circularis; apex centralis; color
albus vel ex albo virens; superficies XXX costis radiantibus
dichotmis induta, per lineas concentricas cruciatis; intus alba
vel livida, margine crenulato; fovea siphonalis bene impressa,
margo prope extremam foveam parum incisus.
Long. ·90, lat. ·85, alt. ·45.
Animal white; shell sub-circular; apex central or sub-central;
color white to greenish externally, internally white, livid
or various shades of a light purple; surface marked by about
thirty radiating and sometimes dichotomous ribs crossed by
irregular concentric lines; internal margin crenulated, the
teeth corresponding to the external ribs; muscular scar
horseshoe-shaped with a little supplementary scar adjoining the
left limb; siponal groove rather strongly impressed, producing
a very faint emargination on the edge of the shell.
Localities, Farallone Islands, Half Moon Bay, New Year’s Point,
Santa Barbara and Santa Catalina Islands. Cooper and Rowell.
No. 826, Mollusca, Survey Cabinet.
TYLODINA, Raf.
? T. FUNGINA, G.
T. testa sub-elliptica, elevata; apice sub-centrali; epidermide
rufo-brunnea, prope apicem lutea, ultra marginem testæ
projecta; intus lutea, prope marginem cærulescens.
Long. 1·3, lat. 1·1, alt. ·5.
Animal unknown, shell sub-elliptical, elevated; apex
sub-central, blunt; epidermis reddish brown, yellowish on and
near the apex, projecting beyond the margin of the shell; color
internally straw yellow, shading towards the margin into a
bluish white.
The above measurements are approximate, making allowance for
the epidermis which in the dry specimen is contracted and
incurved around the margins to a width of about a tenth of an
inch.
A single specimen, fresh, though without the animal, was found
by Dr. Cooper on the shore of Santa Barbara Island.
No. 994, Mollusca, Survey Cabinet.
CIRCE, Schum.
S. G. _Lioconcha_, Morch.
C. (L.) NEWCOMBIANA, G.
C. t. tenui, trigono-ventricosa, polita, minute et concentrice
striata; apicibus magnis, subcentralibus; lunula haud profunda,
cordata, margine arata; colore gilvo, lineis angulatis, rufis
pieto; intus pallida.
Long. 1·2, lat. 1·37, alt. ·45.
Shell thin, trigonally ventricose, polished, marked by minute
concentric striæ; beaks large, subcentral; anterior end
prominent, narrowly rounded, posterior a little the widest,
base convex; lunule not excavated, bounded by an impressed
line; color yellowish white, variously lined with brown angular
lines; interior whitish; internal margin smooth; hinge teeth
delicate.
Hab. two valves, Catalina Island, 120 fms. Dr. Cooper.
No. 1058, Mollusca, Survey Cabinet.
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