CLASS GASTROPODA 
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Chrysodomus phoeniceus Dali, 1891 
Plate 25, fig". 1 
Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 14:187; 17; PI. 29, fig. 1, 1894. 
Shell resembling a small, delicately sculptured, round-whorled C. liratus. 
Whorls seven, upper ones with four or five strong cinguli, later ones 
with numerous fine intercalary threads between the primaries of which 
there are about twenty on the last whorl, color purplish-brown; sculpture 
feeble, with a smooth band next the suture; there are no transverse ribs; 
the epidermis is elevated in thin serrate lamellae in harmony with the lines 
of growth. Length of shell, 56; breadth, 30; length of aperture, 30 mm. 
(Dali.) 
Type in United States National Museum. Type locality, U.S.S. “Alba¬ 
tross” Station 2862, off coast of British Columbia. 
Range. Behm Canal, Alaska, to Cascade Head, Oregon. 
Chrysodomus borealis Philippi, 1850 
Abhildungen und Bcschrcibungen neue oder wcnig gekannte Conchylicn, 3: 118; PI. 5, 
fig. 2. 
Testa ovata, fusiformi, cornea, striis incrementi confertissimis capillari- 
bus sculpta; anfractibus medio angulatis, in angulo nodosis; apertura ovata, 
intus laevi; cauda brevi recurva. Alt., 28"'; diam., 17"'. (Philippi.) 
Shell ovate, fusiform, horny, sculptured with very close capillary striae 
of growth. Whorls angulated in the middle, aperture ovate in angle of 
the nodes?, within smooth with short recurved canal. (Translation.) 
Type in? Type locality, Arctic. 
Range. Arctic Ocean, Aleutian Islands, and Shumagin Islands, 
Alaska. 
Chrysodomus pribiloffensis Dali, 1919 
Plate 21, fig. 4 
Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 56: 323. 
Female shell rather thin, inflated, short-spired, with about six whorls 
exclusive of the (lost) nucleus; the suture distinct with a flattish or 
slightly excavated space on the whorl in front of it, beyond which the 
whorl is evenly rounded; the color is a warm buff, increasing to orange 
on the enamel of the pillar; axial sculpture of fairly obvious, fine incre¬ 
mental lines; spiral sculpture of a strong cord at the shoulder, two on the 
apical whorl, three on the penultimate whorl, eight or ten on the last 
whorl, of which that at the shoulder is strongest; between these cords 
are three to five flattish, less elevated close-set threads, except on the canal, 
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