CONCHOLOGY, 



PLATE CLIX, 



VOLUTA PYRUM 

 PEAR VOLUTE 



Univalve. 



generic character. 



Spiral ; aperture without a beak, and somewhat effuse : pillar 

 twisted or plaited, generally without lips or perforations. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Shell ovate and slightly tailed, with striated whorls on the 

 spire i tip produced and glabrous : pillar with three or four plaits. 



* The younger shells whitish fulvous, with punctiform chesnut 

 coloured spots. 



-Voluta Pyrum : testa obovata subcaudata spirse anfractibus 

 striatis ; apice producto glaberrimo, columella 

 triplicata. Gmel. Syst. NaU T* 1. p. 6. 8463. 

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