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The South Australian N aturalist . 
SHELL COLLECTORS^ CLUB. 
The Shell Club is continuing Its study of South Australian 
univalves, the bi-u'eekly meetings being -well attended. 
FAMILY TURBINJDAE. 
PhasianeUa Australis. This well-known shell attains its maxi- 
mum development in South Australian waters, and may L 
collected all along the coastline, its habitat being the weedy 
patches close in shore. Its bright and intricate color pattern, 
and china-white interior, which is closed with an oval, shelly 
operculum, makes it a conspicuous and pleasing object in any 
cabinet. Phasiatiella, being a light-weight shell, suffers con 
siderable damage on its thin growing lip, at times, fron 
sea buffeting, specimens being frequently collected that have 
been neatly repaired and re-colored. 
PhasianeUa perdix is shorter and more ventricose than the pre- 
ceding specimen, and Is common on Encounter Bay and 
Yorke Peninsula beaches. The coloration is extremely 
variable. 
PhasianeUa variegata. A shell of moderately small and slendei 
dimensions. Collected recently at Port Willunga and Middle- 
ton. 
PhasianeUa rosea. A minute pink specimen from Port McDon- 
nell, South East, 
Turbo Jotirdani. The largest known specimen of this family. 
An excellent history and description of this remarkable shell 
appears in Roy. Soc. Trans, of 1908, Vol, XXXIL, page 
338, by Sir Jos. Verco. Several large specimens were tabled 
by' Club members, one of which measured ori a base line 
6-V inches, height 3f inches, operculum 2| x 3;J: inches. Thb 
exceedingly rare shell shows no umbilieation, and L covered 
with a \h\ck reddish-brown periostracum. Habitat: ht. 
Francis Island, West Coast of Eyre Peninsula. 
Turbo stamhieus. A fairly common variety in this State, 
large specimens were recently taken alive off ^ 
Port Willunga. one of which, Incidentally, weighed 13^ ozs.. 
when stripped of extraneous growths, and without the anima , 
The umbilicus is wide and deep. Tnrhimdae are vegetanan 
and crawl around on the rocky sea flooi scraping o tici 
food with their abrasive radula. ^ i Tt. 
Turbo undulatus. Our commonest Turbo, its green and wn 
patterned shell may be detected on almost any rock at 
tide. Described by Martyn, 1784. 
