Annals of the South African Museum: Annale Van Die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum, Volume 47South African Museum, 1963 - Natural history |
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... nearly half the length of the shell . Dorsal and posterior margins more conspicuously crenulate than in simplicifilis , the crenulations extending to mid- way on ventral margin . Ligament not so broad as in simplicifilis . Muscle scars ...
... nearly half the length of the shell . Dorsal and posterior margins more conspicuously crenulate than in simplicifilis , the crenulations extending to mid- way on ventral margin . Ligament not so broad as in simplicifilis . Muscle scars ...
Page 410
... nearly equivalve , byssiferous , umbones terminal , ligamental cartilage pits 4-5 ; nacreous area covering nearly whole of the interior , the non - nacreous margin narrow ; muscle scars large , deeply impressed . The generic key on p ...
... nearly equivalve , byssiferous , umbones terminal , ligamental cartilage pits 4-5 ; nacreous area covering nearly whole of the interior , the non - nacreous margin narrow ; muscle scars large , deeply impressed . The generic key on p ...
Page 444
... nearly symmetrical ( equivalve ) . Yellowish - grey , sometimes with broad dark purple or blackish radial stripes on ... nearly central and nearly parallel with the hinge - line . Flat valve vinous red , without stripes , lower valve 444 ...
... nearly symmetrical ( equivalve ) . Yellowish - grey , sometimes with broad dark purple or blackish radial stripes on ... nearly central and nearly parallel with the hinge - line . Flat valve vinous red , without stripes , lower valve 444 ...
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1st whorl 27 fathoms 2nd whorl 3rd whorl 40 fathoms 4th whorl 80 metres agulhasensis alfredensis Algoa Bay aperture apical Braga Cape Morgan Cape Natal Cape Point capensis central plate columella cusp dead Delagoa Bay diam dorsal Durban East London False Bay figure Fossil Gmelin granules grooves growth-lines Inhambane intermediaries Jaeckel juvenile Krauss Krss Lamy last whorl lateral plate left valve length Linn lirae living Macnae & Kalk marginal plates Martens Mossel Bay Muir n.sp natalensis nodules oblique operculum outer lip P.F. coll periostracum peripheral Pieter Faure Pleistocene pliculae Port Alfred Port Alfred Bartsch Port Elizabeth Port Elizabeth Sowerby posterior Postnatal whorls Protoconch radial Radula Remarks riblets right valve River Natal Saldanha Bay Schilder sculpture shell slightly Smith smooth South African Museum Sowerby Sowerby's species specimens spiral lirae striae suture Table Bay Thiele Tomlin Tugela River Turton umbilicus umbo worn Zululand