. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF MARINE MOLLUSCA I 29 One Pieter Fame specimen with 6 postnatal whorls measures 3-5 X 1*75 mm. (an africana of equal length has a width of 1-5 mm.). Spiral lirae 3, with very fine axial growth-lines in the grooves. Port Elizabeth (Sowerby); Port Alfred (Turton). 34° 5' S., 250 55' E., 67 fathoms, 1 dead (S. Afr. Mus. coll.). Sella smithi Bartsch Seila smithi 1915. p. 115, pi. 12, fig. 7. Turton, 1932, p. 125, pi. 27, no. 906. [?] Seila capitata Thi
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF MARINE MOLLUSCA I 29 One Pieter Fame specimen with 6 postnatal whorls measures 3-5 X 1*75 mm. (an africana of equal length has a width of 1-5 mm.). Spiral lirae 3, with very fine axial growth-lines in the grooves. Port Elizabeth (Sowerby); Port Alfred (Turton). 34° 5' S., 250 55' E., 67 fathoms, 1 dead (S. Afr. Mus. coll.). Sella smithi Bartsch Seila smithi 1915. p. 115, pi. 12, fig. 7. Turton, 1932, p. 125, pi. 27, no. 906. [?] Seila capitata Thiele. 1925, p. 126. pi. 22 (10), fig. 9. Protoconch 3 whorls, with 2 spiral threads and numerous axial riblets at top of whorls (Bartsch). Postnatal whorls 9 (Bartsch). Port Alfred (Bartsch, Turton). Remarks. Thiele's capitata, from 350 16' S., 220 26' E., 155 metres, may perhaps be synonymous. Both these species and shepstonensis Smith in Tomlin ^cV^. Rd ^=3 ^^^ VK^. 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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