. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . and open; the columellar lip istwisted and arched, and the outerlip is simple. There is a revolvingrow of nodes or spines of various degrees ofprominence upon the shoulder of the body-whorl,continued on the spiral whorls just above thesuture. The color varies from ashen-gray to adirty brown. In young specimens there arestripes and bands of violaceous brown, and theshells are striate within the aperture. The lengthof this shell is sometimes nine inches. F. curicii frequents alm
. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . and open; the columellar lip istwisted and arched, and the outerlip is simple. There is a revolvingrow of nodes or spines of various degrees ofprominence upon the shoulder of the body-whorl,continued on the spiral whorls just above thesuture. The color varies from ashen-gray to adirty brown. In young specimens there arestripes and bands of violaceous brown, and theshells are striate within the aperture. The lengthof this shell is sometimes nine inches. F. curicii frequents almost any sort of Long Island Sound they are common on stonyground, lint they do not attain the maximum si/.e and the high degree ofaperture-coloration characteristic of those taken along the Ne\\ .Jer>eyshore, oji sandy stations exposed to the surf. The string of curiouslyshaped capsules containing the eggs of ildtjur is shown in Plate I. /•. f(ni(iliriiltit(i oflen occurs associated with the la>t. It does notattain <mite the same size, but specimens of both species are, on the ; IHIHtlil -Ill
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