CONCHOLOGY. 



PLATE XV. 



MUREX FOLIATUS 

 FOLIATED MUREX 

 OR, FOLIATED ROCK SHELL. 



Univalve. 



generic character. 



Shell spiral, rough with membranaceous sutures : aperture oval, 

 ending in an entire straight or slightly ascending canal. 



* Sutures expanding into crisped foliations : beak abbreviated 

 Purpura Gmel, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Three rows of foliations : aperture one-toothed. 



MuREX FoLlATUS : testa trifariam frondosa : apertura unidentata. 



Gmel, Linn. St/st T. 1, p. 6. 3529. 174.— 

 Martyn Conch. 2. t. 66, 



