. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF MARINE MOLLUSGA 435 probably be reckoned as the utmost southerly limit at which Spondylus lives on our coast. Cox (1927, p. 49, pi. 7, figs. 7, 8 0, b) recorded ornatissimus Bohm from the Lower Miocene of Pemba Island, remarking that no other species 'either living or fossil, is so delicately ornamented'. This seems an exaggeration, because some of the present valves assigned by Tomlin to hystrix (nicobaricus and ciliatus). Please note that these images are extr
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF MARINE MOLLUSGA 435 probably be reckoned as the utmost southerly limit at which Spondylus lives on our coast. Cox (1927, p. 49, pi. 7, figs. 7, 8 0, b) recorded ornatissimus Bohm from the Lower Miocene of Pemba Island, remarking that no other species 'either living or fossil, is so delicately ornamented'. This seems an exaggeration, because some of the present valves assigned by Tomlin to hystrix (nicobaricus and ciliatus). 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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