CLASS GASTROPODA 
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level of the tops of the threads; the nucleus (lost) is small, the first two 
or three whorls are more coarsely reticulate than the later ones; aperture 
elongated and insensibly passing into a rather wide and short canal; 
siphonal fasciole rather marked, though the siphon is not recurved; pillar 
smooth, nearly straight with little callus; the body with no subsutural 
callus; the outer lip slightly flaring, hardly thickened. Long, of shell, 
26; of aperture, 15.5; lat., 13 mm. (Dali.) 
Type in United States National Museum. Type locality, Terminal 
Island, San Pedro, California. 
Range. Known only from type locality. 
Subgenus Aptyxis Troschel, 1868 
Fusinus taylorianus Reeve, 1848 
Conchologia Iconica, Fusus, fig. 85. 
Shell pyramidially fusiform, canal short, whorls swollen and somewhat 
angled in the middle, longitudinally strongly ribbed, spirally striated, 
striae raised, more prominent upon the ribs; yellowish-brown, lower part 
of the whorls conspicuously blotched with chestnut-brown, ribs whitish, 
interstices obscurely dotted with brown. (Reeve.) 
Type in Museum Taylor, British Museum. Type locality, not known. 
Range. San Pedro, California, to Cape San Lucas, to Panama. 
Genus METZGERIA Norman, 1879 
Shell elongate fusiform, longitudinally obtusely plicate; spire produced; 
canal exserted; columella obscurely plicate. Operculum irregularly ovate; 
apex obtuse; nucleus inconspicuous. (Tryon, Structural and Systematic 
Conchology.) 
Type. Meyeria alba Jeffreys. 
Distribution. Faroe Island, North Sea, Norway, California. 
Metzgeria californica Dali, 1903 
Plate 16, fig. 7; Plate 8, fig. 4 
Nautilus, 17 :51. 
Shell small, translucent white, with a pale straw-colored, dull, wrinkled 
and rather conspicuous periostracum; nucleus small, smooth, white, 
obliquely inclined, of nearly two whorls; there are four or five rounded 
subsequent whorls separated by a deep, not channeled, suture; sculpture 
of about nine rather prominent, rounded axial ribs extending from suture 
to suture and on the last whorl to the base, separated by wider interspaces 
and crossed by numerous subequal spiral threads, covering the whole 
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