. Breviora. Zoology; Paleontology. 10 BREVIORA No. 521. Figures 32-39. Protoconchs and early teleoconch whorls; (32-34) Murex indicus new species, India, 40 miles W of Arrah, 17°54'N, 72°27'E, 46-55 m, MCZ 361889; Figures 32 and 33 figured by Ponder and Vokes (1988). (35-39) Murex carbonnieri (Jousseaume, 1881); (35) paralectotype MNHN, Aden, Red Sea (photo A. Robin); (36) lectotype MNHN, Aden, Red Sea (photo A. Robin); (37, 38) Singapore (Figs. 29-30); (39) Sri Lanka, coll. RH. Scale bars, mm. Description. Shell medium-sized for the genus, up to mm in height at maturity (coll. RH, &q
. Breviora. Zoology; Paleontology. 10 BREVIORA No. 521. Figures 32-39. Protoconchs and early teleoconch whorls; (32-34) Murex indicus new species, India, 40 miles W of Arrah, 17°54'N, 72°27'E, 46-55 m, MCZ 361889; Figures 32 and 33 figured by Ponder and Vokes (1988). (35-39) Murex carbonnieri (Jousseaume, 1881); (35) paralectotype MNHN, Aden, Red Sea (photo A. Robin); (36) lectotype MNHN, Aden, Red Sea (photo A. Robin); (37, 38) Singapore (Figs. 29-30); (39) Sri Lanka, coll. RH. Scale bars, mm. Description. Shell medium-sized for the genus, up to mm in height at maturity (coll. RH, "India"). Height/width ratio Broad, nodose, spinose, shoulder weakly sloping, weakly convex. Light tan or light brown with small dark brown blotches on primary and secondary spiral cords, between axial nodes; columellar lip glossy white, inner side of outer lip white for a short distance within, with brown blotches between apertural crenulations, light brown within the aperture. Spire high with 3+ protoconch whorls (first whorl slightly broken in all the examined specimens). Teleoconch up to 7 broadly convex, weakly shouldered spinose and nodose whorls. Suture impressed, partially obscured by small axial lamellae of succeeding whorl. Protoconch small, conical, with a narrow weak keel abapically on penultimate and last whorls. Terminal lip thin, erect, of sinusigeral type. Axial sculpture of narrow axial lamellae on first and second whorl and of moderately high or high varices and intervarical nodes on succeeding whorls. First and second whorl with 8 axial lamellae; third whorl with 2 or 3 axial lamellae and onset of varices with 2 or 3 intervarical nodes; fourth whorl with 3. 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 Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge, Mass
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