. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 174 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM River, 40 fathoms, 5 juv.; off East London, 20 fathoms, one; all dead but more or less fresh (S. Afr. Mus. coll.). 290 38' S. 31 ° E., 49 metres (). Living: False Bay and East London (). Remarks. The juveniles collected at Still Bay by Dr. Muir clearly show that natalensis is a synonym. Specimens in S. Afr. Mus. labelled albuginosa and Jioccata Rve. do not seem very different, except the latter are larger and broader with less tapering spire, an
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 174 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM River, 40 fathoms, 5 juv.; off East London, 20 fathoms, one; all dead but more or less fresh (S. Afr. Mus. coll.). 290 38' S. 31 ° E., 49 metres (). Living: False Bay and East London (). Remarks. The juveniles collected at Still Bay by Dr. Muir clearly show that natalensis is a synonym. Specimens in S. Afr. Mus. labelled albuginosa and Jioccata Rve. do not seem very different, except the latter are larger and broader with less tapering spire, and are also more strongly marked with orange-brown blotches and reticulation; both show on the body-whorl 2 spiral series of opaque white spots, enclosing between them a pale non-reticulated band, also usually a series of white spots below the suture (on the upper whorls the peripheral spots just show above the suture of following whorl). Some specimens have more or less regularly spaced, straight or crinkly, axial bars between suture and periphery; some are orange-brown with a pale peripheral band, others uniform orange- brown. Von Martens (1903. D. Tiefsee Exp., vii, pp. 56, 106) mentions uniform 'scarlet-red' examples of Jioccata from Pondoland; and a beach example from Natal in S. Afr. Mus. is reticulate with brown, but has the peripheral band bright pink. The same mottled and reticulate pattern is found in C. seychellarum von Martens (loc. cit., p. 105, pi. 5, fig. 17) which, however, is an even more broadly oval shell than Fig. 34. Protoconchs of (a) Pyrene kraussii (Sow.); (b) P. burnupi (Smith); (c) P. dianae (Thiele); (d) 'Columbella' hella Thiele. Central and lateral radula plates of (e) P. burnupi (Smith); (/) P. albuginosa (Rve.), lateral plate only; (g) (Sow.), lateral plate only; (h) Colum- bella fulgurans Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colorat
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