The Nautilus. Vol. XXXI, No. 2, October 1917: A Quarterly Journal Devoted to the Interests of ConchologistsVarious
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The Nautilus. Vol. XXXI, No. 2, October 1917: A Quarterly Journal Devoted to the Interests of Conchologists
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Mollusks -- Periodicals
The septate shell is oblong, the sides being nearly parallel, but
slightly expanding anteriorly, the right slightly convex and the left
slightly concave; the posterior margin is regularly rounded; the
anterior more broadly rounded; the apex depressed, bluntly rounded,
excentric, reaching nearly to the right margin, smooth except for slight
concentric wrinkles, lines of growth fine and regular; the anterior
slope is slightly convex; the very short posterior slope below the
projecting apex to the line of the septum is straight and oblique; the
right lateral slope is steep and nearly straight, the left slope very
convex; the septum is very short, being less than half of the length of
the septate shell, convex on its lower surface, the margin is very
short, being less than half of the length of the septate shell, convex
on its lower surface, the margin is very concave and on the right side,
extends further forward than it does on left, there does not seem to be
the distinct thickening of the margin so noticeable in other species;
aperture much larger than in any other species yet described.
Length 2; width 1.5; alt. .75 mm.
Type (43455 Coll. Walker) from the Maya Farm, Quirigua, Guatemala,
collected by A. A. Hinkley. Cotypes in the collection of Mr. Hinkley.
This fine species is the first from either Central or South America, of
which both the septate and adult forms are known.
It differs from all other described species except _crepidulina_ Guppy
in the small size of the septum and the consequent difference in the
position of the aperture of the septate stage in the adult shell. The
septum in the specimen figured appears very like the incomplete septum
in the North American species, but as the three adult specimens before
me are exactly alike in the position of the septate shell, this would
seem to be the normal condition in this species. The specimen figured,
which is 3.25 mm. in length, has apparently slightly passed the septate
stage and begun the growth of the constricted portion of the adult shell
and shows the beginnings of the radial striæ.
With the Gundlachias was associated a species of _Lævapex_, very like
the _excentricus_ Morelet. Whether it has any closer relations with the
_Gundlachia_ remains to be determined as the radula has not yet been
examined. While the general aspect of the two species, if such they be,
is very similar, the _Lævapex_ has a very much more acute apex than the
_Gundlachia_.
As shown by the figure, the radula of this species is quite typical of
the genus.
A LIST OF SHELLS FROM THE EAST COAST OF FLORIDA.
BY BRYANT WALKER.
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