. 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. Mollusks -- Atlantic Coast; Mollusks -- Florida. 134 EAST COAST MARINE SHELLS two commonest Cones in the Antilles, PI. 51, Fig. 17 Florida Keys and West Indies CONUS DAUCUS Bruguiere. Shell orange or carrot color, indistinctly banded, turbi- nate in form with a low spire; spiral sculp- ture present. Fossil specimens have been col- lected in the Caloosahatchee beds of Flori- da and It possi
. 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. Mollusks -- Atlantic Coast; Mollusks -- Florida. 134 EAST COAST MARINE SHELLS two commonest Cones in the Antilles, PI. 51, Fig. 17 Florida Keys and West Indies CONUS DAUCUS Bruguiere. Shell orange or carrot color, indistinctly banded, turbi- nate in form with a low spire; spiral sculp- ture present. Fossil specimens have been col- lected in the Caloosahatchee beds of Flori- da and It possibly may still be living near the Florida Keys. Length inches. PI. 5S, Fig. 8 West Indies CONUS NEBULOSUS Solander. Cloudy Cone. Shell solid, turbinated; zones of brownish color crossed by fine spiral lines of slightly darker shade, these lines becom- ing dots or dashes of white and dark below, toward the base becoming granular; spotted with white irregularly upon surface; blunt- ly crowned with short tubercles at the shoulder; interior mostly whitish. This very beautiful shell is appar- ently unrecorded from the United States. Several specimens collected upon the Flori- da beaches during the winter of 1935-1936 have been called to the writer's attention. The fine shell illustrated was secured at Fort Lauderdale by W. A. Royce. Another worn specimen has been reported by Dr. B. R. Bales from Pelican Shoals, about eight- een miles northeast of Key West. Tryon reports the species as occurring in the West Indies and adjacent coasts of North and South America, PI, 51, Fig, 21 Palm Beach County, Florida to the West Indies Family Turridae (Turrltldae) Shell fusiform, spire elevated, canal long and straight; slit on outer lip, near su- ture, an opening for ex- cretions and shown in Fig. 51. Animal with sinus upon right margin and corresponding with slit in shell. A poison gland is often present and used In connection with the radula. The. Fig. 51 Slit of Turria presence of this gl
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