. West American shells; a description in familiar terms of the principal marine, fresh water and land mollusks of the United States found west of the Rocky Mountains, including those of British Columbia and Alaska ... MARINE UNIVALVES 173 its ill-omened name, for there is nothing direfulin its appearance, though its color is dark andmournful. It is also called Euthria dira. Chrysodomus lirdtus, Mart., the Ridged Spindle-shell, is a large Alaskan species, with a light brownshell some three inches long, swollen in the middleand pointed at both ends. The chief feature isthe set of about ten stron
. West American shells; a description in familiar terms of the principal marine, fresh water and land mollusks of the United States found west of the Rocky Mountains, including those of British Columbia and Alaska ... MARINE UNIVALVES 173 its ill-omened name, for there is nothing direfulin its appearance, though its color is dark andmournful. It is also called Euthria dira. Chrysodomus lirdtus, Mart., the Ridged Spindle-shell, is a large Alaskan species, with a light brownshell some three inches long, swollen in the middleand pointed at both ends. The chief feature isthe set of about ten strong ridges, or carinjE, whichcircle around the shell in a spiral manner, lead-ing back from the outer lip to the very apex. Iobtained a fine specimen on Wrangel Island. Figure 167 gives a goodidea of a somewhat similarshell known as Clirysodomustdhnldtus, Baird, the TabledSpindle-sliell. It lives alongthe coast from VancouverIsland southward, inhabit-ing deeper and deeper wateron the way. A ])eautifulspecimen was recentlydredged in Monterey shell is of a yellowishwhite color, though some-times darker, and can bereadily identified by thetabulated whorls, with theirflat tops. Clirysodom us hell e tt i i,Fo
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