. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Fig. 12. a. Pleurotoma ? paula Thiele, body whorl, apex and protoconch further enlarged, b. Drillia flavidula (Lam.), apex. c. D. laterculoides n. sp., body whorl and protoconch. intervals on the 3 postnatal whorls, which are otherwise devoid of any sculpture. The Valdivia example was worn; possibly the present unworn specimens are conspecific. A worn specimen resembling Thiele's specimen but consisting of only the 2-whorled protoconch plus one postnatal whorl was taken off Cape Recife (340 S., 250 4
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. Fig. 12. a. Pleurotoma ? paula Thiele, body whorl, apex and protoconch further enlarged, b. Drillia flavidula (Lam.), apex. c. D. laterculoides n. sp., body whorl and protoconch. intervals on the 3 postnatal whorls, which are otherwise devoid of any sculpture. The Valdivia example was worn; possibly the present unworn specimens are conspecific. A worn specimen resembling Thiele's specimen but consisting of only the 2-whorled protoconch plus one postnatal whorl was taken off Cape Recife (340 S., 250 44' E. (approx. 30 fathoms)). It measures 3-25 X 1-75 mm., the protoconch alt. 1-25, diam. 1 mm. The postnatal whorl has 9 sigmoid axial grooves. (S. Afr. Mus. A8754, Coll.) Drillia variabilis Smith 1877. Smith. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (4), xix, p. 495. 1901. Melvill and Standen. Proc. £ool. Soc. Lond., ii, p. 441. 1917. Melvill. Proc. Mai. Soc, xii, p. 159, pi. 8, fig. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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