. The shell book . king pattern of the shell will keepit always a cabinet favourite. New Zealand, Australia. Genus MARGARITA, Leach Shell very small, thin, depressed, globose, with smooth orcross-striated whorls; aperture circular. The Wavy Top Shell (M. undulaia, Sby.) is a tiny mollusk,scarcely \ inch high. It exists in quantities along the NewEngland coast where it is appreciated as an edible mollusk bythe codfish and its relatives. It is abundant in their stomachsat various seasons. At times of very low tide the collector maylook for this species among the rocks of sheltered coves. Theflat
. The shell book . king pattern of the shell will keepit always a cabinet favourite. New Zealand, Australia. Genus MARGARITA, Leach Shell very small, thin, depressed, globose, with smooth orcross-striated whorls; aperture circular. The Wavy Top Shell (M. undulaia, Sby.) is a tiny mollusk,scarcely \ inch high. It exists in quantities along the NewEngland coast where it is appreciated as an edible mollusk bythe codfish and its relatives. It is abundant in their stomachsat various seasons. At times of very low tide the collector maylook for this species among the rocks of sheltered coves. Theflattened dome is made of four rounded reddish whorls. Thecolumella has a deep, wide umbilicus; the body whorl has manyfolds along its outer edge. M. cinerea, Couth., is a tiny dull greenish shell with finelines on the lower edge of the square-shouldered whorls and strongridges on the upper edge. Very fine and close-set oblique linescross the ridges throughout. It is found from Cape Cod north-ward in shallow water. 218. 1 Livona pica. 2 Chlorostoma pdlis-serpent is. 3 Chlorostoma brunnea. Photograph by Maxwell Smith. TOP SHELLS 4 Norrisia Norrisii. 5 Calliostoma ttgris. 6 Rotclla gigantca. 7 TrochttsNtloticus (much reduced). 8 Chlorostoma jitnebrale. 9 Calliostoma Rocks at La Jolla, Cal.
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