. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . m. The genus has been very extensivelydivided into subgenera, based upon shell-characters alone. Someof these subgenera are usually accepted at full generic value, andtheir substitution for the old, well-established name Murex is tobe expected. These two Floridian species fall within differentsubgeueric lines, and the student who goes to a museum to com-pare his catch with the labeled specimens on exhibition willprobably be puzzled to find his two murices named Chicoreusrufus
. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . m. The genus has been very extensivelydivided into subgenera, based upon shell-characters alone. Someof these subgenera are usually accepted at full generic value, andtheir substitution for the old, well-established name Murex is tobe expected. These two Floridian species fall within differentsubgeueric lines, and the student who goes to a museum to com-pare his catch with the labeled specimens on exhibition willprobably be puzzled to find his two murices named Chicoreusrufus and Pliyllonotus pomum respectively. But for our purposesthe name Murex will do well enough. M. rufus. This species scarcely ever exceeds three inches in spire is moderately high, and the aperture is oblong-ovate, with along, slightly curved, and almost completely inclosed anterior tlie end of this the fleshy siphon projects in life. The shell ismost extravagantly sculptured — so intricately that it is difficult todescribe it. Its most conspicuous feature is the large foliaceous varices. ( ass-is ILATK |i:ipyr:iti:i. I >nliiiin inllata.
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