Bulletins of American paleontology . ree evenly spaced threads. Major straps and medial threads arecommonly reddish brown in color. The periostracum varies fromlight to dark brown, but in museum specimens the long darkbrown hairs have usually fallen off and a lighter scaly coveringremains. Spiral threads are outlined by rows of periostracal tuftsand are more conspicuous in hairy specimens than in those whichhave been decorticated. Most, including adult, whorls have twovarices that are not aligned but that approach lateral are not as tabulate as in /•. oregonensis and the an
Bulletins of American paleontology . ree evenly spaced threads. Major straps and medial threads arecommonly reddish brown in color. The periostracum varies fromlight to dark brown, but in museum specimens the long darkbrown hairs have usually fallen off and a lighter scaly coveringremains. Spiral threads are outlined by rows of periostracal tuftsand are more conspicuous in hairy specimens than in those whichhave been decorticated. Most, including adult, whorls have twovarices that are not aligned but that approach lateral are not as tabulate as in /•. oregonensis and the anteriorcanal is long and more strongly recurved. Protoconchs were miss-ing in most specimens studied; tlie largest adults had at leastseven whorls and measured to cm high. The excurrentnotch is marked as in F. oregonensis and several individuals hadochraceous apertural margins. 498 Bulletin 254 A Fusitriton goleo (Kurodo 9Habe) RECENT ? Fusitriton oregonensis (Redfield) RECENT D Fusitriton oregonensis (Redfield) NEOGENE. O 200 400 Km. Cymatiid Gastropods: Smith 499 Some strongly nodose specimens labelled F. laudandum Fin-lay, 1927 from New Zealand resemble F. galea, but the former areconsistently higher spired and more slender and the Japanesespecies has finer microsculpture, a more strongly recurved canaland possibly a heavier shell. Ecology and distributio)i. — (Text-fig. 10.) The author is in-debted to Mr. Takashi Okutani of the Tokai Regional FisheriesBureau, Tokyo, for confirmation of distributional data based onthe literature and specimens in American museums. Known onlyfrom the Pacific side of southern Japan, F. galea has been dredgedfrom 55 to 120 fathoms in Tosa Bay and from 88 to 340 fathoms(or 620 m, deepest record, collected by Okutani, 1964) off southernHonshu in Uraga Strait, Suruga Bay, and the Sea of Enshu Nada,where it is abundant between the upper shelf and bathyal zones. It is a warmer water species than F. oregonensis, which occursin 30 to 130 f
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