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Modern. Name Old Name 
English Name 
Locality 
1862-1866 maculosum 
maculosum 
spotted 
Barneo 
1867-1875 rubicula 
scorbiculator 
BUCCINUM 
violet throated 
Red Sea 
1876-1877 dolarium 
dolarium 
narrow belted 
Portugal 
1878 undusum 
undusum 
undulated 
Malacca 
ROSTELL ARIA 
STROMBUS 
SCREW 
1879-1880 curvirostris 
fusus 
spindle 
Arabia Felix 
1881-1883 pes-pelecani 
pes-pelicani 
pelican’s foot 
Dublin Bay 
PTEROCERA 
1897-1908 lambis 
lambis 
spider 
Banda 
1896 millepeda 
millepeda 
centipede 
Ceylon 
1884 scorpio 
scorpius 
scorpion 
Java 
1885-1895 chiragra 
chiragra 
Devil’s claw 
Banda 
1896-1914 (see notes) 
1915-1916 truncata 
bryonia 
blunt- tipped 
China 
STROMBUS 
1917-1918 gigas 
gigas 
eagles’ wing 
Barbadoes 
1919-1920 latissima 
latissima 
broad 
Indian Ocean 
1921-1923 accipitrina 
accipitrina 
hawks’ wing 
Asiatic Ocean 
1924-1928 tricornis 
tricornis 
three-horned 
Red Sea 
1929 gallus 
gallus 
plough 
Martinique 
1930-1935 lentiginosus 
lentiginosus 
pink lipped 
Amboyna 
1936 bubonius 
fasciatus 
rose banded 
Goree 
1937-1938 ditto, (young) 
i do. (young) 
do. without lip 
Goree 
1939-1940 bituberculatus 
bituberculatus two knobbed 
1 94 1 - i 043 auris Diana- 
auris Dianre 
Diana’s ear 
China 
