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ceous; spire shorter than the body; suture not deeply impressed; beak not 
distinguished from the body whorl by any profound depression, and not 
prominent; labrum within lineated with elevated, abbreviated or inter¬ 
rupted lines, not incrassated, purple-black; columella at base with a 
prominence or fold. Length, 3/S in. (Say.) 
Type in Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. Type locality, east 
coast. 
Range. San Francisco, California; introduced from the Atlantic. 
Family COLUMBELLIDAE 
Genus ANACHIS H. and A. Adams, 1853 
Shell ovately-fusiform; spire elevated, whorls longitudinally ribbed; 
aperture narrow; columella straight; outer lip somewhat rectilinear, cre- 
nate internally. (H. and A. Adams.) 
Type. Columbella rugosa Sowerby. 
Distribution. Atlantic Coast United States, West Indies, India, 
China, Japan, Philippines, Australia, Polynesia, west coast of America, 
Galapagos Islands. Fossil: Tertiary. 
Anachis penicillata Carpenter, 1865 
Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 3, 15:398. Tryon, Manual of Con- 
chology, 5; PI. 58, fig. 46. 
A. testa parva, Metuloidea, turrita, albida, rufo-fusco plus minusve 
penicillata; anfr. nucleosis ii., tumidis, helicoideis, apice mamillato; norm, 
vi., tumidis, suturis valde impressis; costis radiantibus circ. xii., angustis, 
expressis; lirulis spiralibus extantibus, in spira plerumque vi. supra costas 
transeuntibus; apertura pyriformi, antice effusa; labro postice sinuato. 
Long., .21; long, spir., .13; lat., .08. (Carpenter.) 
Shell small, Metuloid, turreted, yellowish, more or less marbled with 
chestnut; nuclear whorls two, helicoid, tumid, with mammillary apex; 
normal whorls six, convex, with rounded longitudinal ribs crossed by 
strong spiral striae; aperture pyriform, effuse below, the lip posteriorly 
sinuate. (Tryon, Manual of Chonchology.) 
Type in British Museum. Type locality, Santa Barbara, California. 
Range. Santa Barbara, California, to Gulf of California. 
Anachis subturrita Carpenter, 1866 
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 3:223. Tryon, Manual of Con - 
chology, 5; PI. 50, figs. 40, 41. 
A. t. minuta, angusta, Rissoinoidea, pallide purpureofusca, albido macu¬ 
losa; anfr. nucl. decollatis; norm. v. subplanatis, suturis distinctis; costulis 
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