. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 440 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Trochidae Calliotropis metallica ( & A.) (Fig. 8 a) Solariella metallica Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891, p. 444, fig. 12 a, b. Previously taken by the Pieter Faure off Cape Point. A notable extension of the hitherto known distribution: Gulf of Manaar, East Indies, East Africa. An account of the species will be given in Part IV of Barnard, Contributions . . South African Marine Mollusca. Calliotropis pompe n. sp. (Fig. 8 b) Shell thin-walled. Protoconch n
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 440 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM Trochidae Calliotropis metallica ( & A.) (Fig. 8 a) Solariella metallica Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891, p. 444, fig. 12 a, b. Previously taken by the Pieter Faure off Cape Point. A notable extension of the hitherto known distribution: Gulf of Manaar, East Indies, East Africa. An account of the species will be given in Part IV of Barnard, Contributions . . South African Marine Mollusca. Calliotropis pompe n. sp. (Fig. 8 b) Shell thin-walled. Protoconch nucleus plus 7 whorls. First to 3rd whorls with c. 23-24 slightly retractive axial pliculae; on 3rd and following whorls crossed by a peripheral spiral lira at lower third of whorl, and at end of 3rd whorl and on 4th and following whorls by a second lira at upper third; the upper lira forms conical tubercles at the intersections with the pliculae, c. 18-20 increas- ing to c. 25 on 6th whorl, but becoming feeble and eventually evanescent on 7th whorl; on 5th~7th whorls the pliculae are distinct from suture to upper lira,. 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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