. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . Murex festivus. PLATE LXXII. Murex foliatum. Ocinebra poulsoni, enlargedCerostoma nuttallii. GASTEROPODS 383 which cross the \vliorls, projecting almost one fourth of an inch from thebody of the shell. Between each of these varices a large node. Thereis, besides all this, a system of pronounced revolving ribs which crossthe varices and nodes, giving to the shell a greatly roughened appear-ance. The interior is bluish-white. The operculum i
. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . Murex festivus. PLATE LXXII. Murex foliatum. Ocinebra poulsoni, enlargedCerostoma nuttallii. GASTEROPODS 383 which cross the \vliorls, projecting almost one fourth of an inch from thebody of the shell. Between each of these varices a large node. Thereis, besides all this, a system of pronounced revolving ribs which crossthe varices and nodes, giving to the shell a greatly roughened appear-ance. The interior is bluish-white. The operculum is corneous, with asubterminal nucleus. Unfortunately, this really handsome shell is usuallyincrusted with coralline or calcareous matter, which must be removedwith acid before a good idea of its appearance can be had. In color it isreddish-brown to dark chestnut on the varices. It is very common onthe west coast of Florida, but rarer elsewhere. (Plate LXXII.) A more abundant species, found all along the coastfrom rlatteras to Texas. It is not so elongated as the last, and its sculp-tural design is much
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