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MARINE SHELLS OF WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA 
Type in Museum, St. Petersburg. Type locality, Bering Sea. 
Range. Commander, Aleutian, and Kodiak Islands. 
Buccinum baeri morchianum Fischer, 1858 
Plate 27, figs. 3, 4 
Journal de Conchyliologic, 7 :299; PI. 10, figs. 2a., 2b. 
Testa acuminata, ovato-conica, concentrice rugoso-sulcata, anfractibus 
5 y 2 violaceis; apice subpapillato; anfractu ultimo ventroso, sordide griseo; 
sutura impressa, columella arcuata; callo tenui; peristomate simplici, 
semicirculari; canali brevi. Long., 26; lat., 16; apert., 17-18 mm. 
(Fischer.) 
Test acuminata, ovately conical, concentrically rugosely sulcate; with 
5^2, violet colored whorls; apex subpapillate; with last whorl ventricose, 
dully grayish; with impressed suture, arcuate columella; thin callus; with 
simple semicircular periostome; short canal. (Translation.) 
Type in? Type locality, Siberia. 
Range. Bering Sea, Kodiak, Forrester Islands, Alaska, and Port 
Simpson, British Columbia; also Kurile Islands. 
Buccinum fischerianum Dali, 1871 
American Journal of Conchology, 7:106; PI. 16, fig. 13. 
Epidermis smooth, thin, yellowish, marked with very fine, wavy, 
revolving lines, much finer than those of Volutharpa, and not ciliated. 
Surface of the whorls smooth, but marked with rather evident lines of 
growth, which are raised into plicate rugosities near the suture, which 
is appressed and not canaliculated. Whorls inflated, amply rounded, 
solid, porcellanous and strong. Aperture elongate-ovate; outer lip thick¬ 
ened, broadly, effusely arched. Periostome white. Throat of a muddy 
pink. Inner lip with a thin callus, thicker on the columella, where it is 
colored with dash of deep pink. Columella twisted, broad, arched. Canal 
wide and shallow, very short. Color externally yellowish-pink, upper 
whorls a little livid, last whorl with a few indistinct revolving brown 
lines, frequently interrupted. Traces of obscure, revolving ridges appear 
in a few places on the last whorl. This shell has precisely the form of 
Volutharpa, but its noncanaliculated suture, solid texture, coloration, and 
general aspect confirm me in my belief that it is a true Buccinum. Long., 
1.3; lat., .9 inches. (Dali.) 
Type in United States National Museum. Type locality, St. George 
Island, Bering Sea. 
Range. St. George Island, Pribilof group, Bering Sea. 
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