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THE OCEAN WORLD. 



Fig. 295. Murex scorpi 

 (Linnaeus). 



Fig. 296. Murex erinaceus 

 (Linnaeus). 



Fig. 297* Triton variegatum Fig. 298. Triton lotorium Fig. 299. Triton anus 

 (Lamarck). (Linnaeus). (Lamarck). 



The genus Triton is ranged beside the genus Murex in this 

 system. The shell is irregularly covered with scattered swelling 

 excrescences, not, as in Murex^ in longitudinal rows, but scattered 



