PE aa | XX Xt, 
MUREX DESPECTUS. 
THE LARGE OF DESPISED WHELK. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Spiral, rough. The aperture ending in a strait and somewhat pro- 
duced gutter or canaliculation. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS, 
Mouth wide, oval and somewhat elongated and cancellated at the 
upper end. Spires eight. 
Murex DEsPectus: testa patulo subcaudata oblonga anfractibus 
ofto. Gmel. Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 3547. 
Buccinum album leve, maximum, septem minimum spirarum. 
Last. Hi, An. Angli p. 155. tit. 1. tab. 9, 
jig. 1. 
Buccinum rostratum majus crassum, orbibus paululum pulvinatis. 
List. H. Conch. tab. 913. fig. 4. 
Murex Despectus. Despised. Penn. Br. Zool. t. 718. fig. 93. 
Buccinum canaliculatum magnum crassum striatum album. Mac- 
nuM. Da Costa tab. 6. fig. 4. p. 120. 
This is the largest of the turbinated univalves found in the Britifh 
seas. It inhabits deep water, and is said to be a common shell on the 
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