PLATE CLXXII 



TURBO SUBULATUS. 



SUBULATE WREATH SHELL. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Animal Limax. Shell univalve, spiral, or of a taper form. 

 Aperture somewhat compressed, orbicular, entire. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Shell subulate, tapering, pale flesh-colour, glossy, fasciated with 

 testaceous-brown. Aperture oval. 



Turbo Subulatus : testa subulato-turrita pallide-carnea nitida 

 testaceo fasciata, apertura ovali. 



Strombiformis parvus corneus glaber. Smooth. Da Costa, 

 Brit, conch, p. 117. sp. 69. Turbo Isevis. 

 Smooth. Penn. Brit. Zool. No. 115. tab. 79. 

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Our best specimens of this rare shell were dredged up on the 

 coast of Weymouth. Da Costa received it from Exmouth, in 

 Devonshire ; he also adds, that three were found in the stomach 

 of a Five Finger, or common Stella Marina. The Turbo lasvis 



