PLATE XXXI. 



MUREX DESPECTUS. 



THE LARGE Or 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 

 octo. Gmel. Linn. fyst. Nat. p. 3547. 



Buccinum album lave, maximum, septem minimum spirarvim. 

 List. H. An. Angl. p, 155. tit. 1. tab. 3. 



Buccinum rostratum majus crassum, orbibus paululum pulvinatis. 

 List. H. Conch, tab. 913. fig. 4. 



Murex Despec"tus. Despised. Penn. Br. Zool. t. 78. fig. 93. 



Buccinum canaliculatum magnum crassum striatum album. Mag- 

 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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