CONCHOLOGY. 



PLATE XLI. 



TROCHUS CONCHYLIOPHORUS 

 CARRIER TROCHUS. 



Univalve. 



generic character. 



Animal a limax. Linn. Shell univalve, spiral, more or less 

 conic: aperture somewhat angular or rounded, the upper side trans- 

 verse and contracted : pillar placed obliquely. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Whorls round and obsoletely plaited, the first brownish : aperture 

 compressed, brownish : mouth and concave base brown. 



Trochus CONCHYLIOPHORUS : spirae anfractibus teretibus obso- 

 lete plicatis : anfractu primo aperturaque com- 

 pressa subfuscis, fauce basique concava fuscis. 

 Gmel. Linn, Syst. Nat. T. 1. p. 6. 3584. 110. 



