. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF SOUTH AFRICAN MARINE MOLLUSCA 599. Fig. 2. Conus orbignyi Audouin. Conus eucoronatus Sow., 1903 Conus eucoronatus Sowerby, Barnard, 1958: 83. Mrs. H. Boswell has shown me (1962) a specimen taken off Pemba, which seems to me to agree with varius Linn, as figured by Sowerby (1857: 7, pi. 189, figs 40-42). Mrs. Boswell disagreed, saying she had examples of varius in her collection, which were different from the Pemba shell. It is true there is a resemblance between the
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF SOUTH AFRICAN MARINE MOLLUSCA 599. Fig. 2. Conus orbignyi Audouin. Conus eucoronatus Sow., 1903 Conus eucoronatus Sowerby, Barnard, 1958: 83. Mrs. H. Boswell has shown me (1962) a specimen taken off Pemba, which seems to me to agree with varius Linn, as figured by Sowerby (1857: 7, pi. 189, figs 40-42). Mrs. Boswell disagreed, saying she had examples of varius in her collection, which were different from the Pemba shell. It is true there is a resemblance between the latter and eucoronatus; but there is considerable difference between the axial plications cut by spiral grooves into narrow (axially) oblong nodules of eucoronatus and the prominent rounded nodules shown in Sowerby's figures of varius. The Pemba shell agrees with the latter. The fragment from off O'Neil Peak ( A8660) has the oblong nodules slightly broader than in the type and the other specimens; but does not really resemble Sowerby's figures of varius. Conus coronatus Dillwyn, 1817 Conus coronatus (Gmelin, pars) Dillwyn, 1817: 403. Dautzenberg, 1937: 75. Conus minimus Linnaeus, Sowerby, 1858: 9, pi. 189, figs 54, 55, pi. 191, figs 99, in. Barnard, 1958:85. According to Dautzenberg, Linnaeus' description of minimus is unrecogniz- able as a species, and should be replaced by Dillwyn's 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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