East coast marine shells : descriptions of shore mollusks together with many living below tide mark, from Maine to Texas inclusive, especially Florida, with more than one thousand drawings and photographs eastcoastmarines00smit Year: 1951 EAST COAST MARINE SHELLS 85 EPITONIUM SCIPIO Dall. Depth range lS-30 fathoms. PI. 32, Fig. 7 North Carolina; Gulf of Mexico EPITONIUM TOLLENI Dall. Shell narrow, whorls nine, gradually increasing in size; about seven lustreless varices on each whorl; suture well impressed; height of aperture greater than width; surface shin- ing. Length 10-15 mm. PI. 32, Fi
East coast marine shells : descriptions of shore mollusks together with many living below tide mark, from Maine to Texas inclusive, especially Florida, with more than one thousand drawings and photographs eastcoastmarines00smit Year: 1951 EAST COAST MARINE SHELLS 85 EPITONIUM SCIPIO Dall. Depth range lS-30 fathoms. PI. 32, Fig. 7 North Carolina; Gulf of Mexico EPITONIUM TOLLENI Dall. Shell narrow, whorls nine, gradually increasing in size; about seven lustreless varices on each whorl; suture well impressed; height of aperture greater than width; surface shin- ing. Length 10-15 mm. PI. 32, Fig. 4 North Carolina to West Indies EPITONIUM TERES Bush, Range 14-16 fathoms. PI. 65, Fig. 8 Off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina EPITONIUM TURRICULUM Sowerby. Umbilicus partly covered, white, rather thin, often with two faint chestnut bands; very close spiral sculpture; whorls eight to nine with twelve to thirteen ribs some of which are varicose. Length 18 mm. Range 16-22 fath- oms but not infrequently found upon the beaches after storms. PI. 32, Fig. 10 North Carolina to West Indies SUBGENUS BOREOSCALA Kobelt 1902 EPITONIUM GROENLANDICUM Perry. Shell elongated; whorls gradually increasing, ten in number, closely contacted, a little con- vex, eight to fifteen stout flattened ob- lique ribs, the spaces between filled with six to eight rounded ridges and revolving lines; lip slightly expanded and producing an angle above. Length 1 inch. It is found in the stomachs of fish caught in Massachusetts Bay and upon the beach at Nahant, Massachusetts Range 10-109 fathoms. PI. 35, Fig. 15 Greenland to off Block Island, Rhode Island SUBGENUS OPALIA H. and A. Adams 1853 EPITONIUM CRENATUM HOTESSIERIANUM Orbigny, Shell thick, white, spirally striated; twelve low, close spiral ribs, less dis- tant on center of last whorl, forming cren- ulations at suture. The variety differs from the typi- cal West Indian shell in being much narrow- er. Length 11 mm. A rather rare species. PI. 33, Fig. 14 Flori
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