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MARINE SHELLS OF WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA 
with black and finely crenulated by the projecting ends of the modified 
whitish grooving. Columella arcuated with two blunt tubercles near the 
base and a shallow umbilical pit above; base convex. Dimensions: Altitude, 
36; diameter maximum, 34 mm. (Stearns.) 
Type in United States National Museum, No. 125315. Type locality, 
Guadalupe Island, off Lower California. 
Range. San Pedro, California, to Guadalupe Island, Lower California. 
Described as Chlorostoma gallina var. multifilosa Stearns. 
Tegula brunnea Philippi, 1848 
Plate 98, fig. 2 
Zeitschrift fur Malakosoologie, 189. Tryon and Pilsbry, Manual of Conchology , 
11:170; PI. 27, figs. 36-38. 
Testa imperforata, conoidea, laevi, fusca; anfractibus parum convexis, 
ultimo ad peripheriam subangulata, ad suturam impresso; apertura subrhom- 
bea; columella perobliqua, bidentata; foveola umbilici regionem occupante. 
Satura, apertura, columella, fovea in regione umbilici, callus lubialis illam 
ex parte cingens exacte ut in T. argyrostomo; color fere exacte ut in 
T. pulligine. Alt. aoeos fict., 11'"; diam. 15J4".' (Philippi.) 
Shell imperforate, conical, solid, russet-yellow, brown, orange-colored, 
or deep crimson; spire conic; sutures deeply impressed; whorls about 
seven, convex, smooth, obliquely lightly striate, the last sometimes obsoletely 
undulated or plicate below the suture; base depressed, deeply concave in the 
center; aperture very oblique; columella one- or two-toothed near the base; 
umbilical callus white; place of the umbilicus deeply excavated. Alt., 32; 
diam., 36; alt., 38; diam., 35 mm. (Tryon and Pilsbry, Manual of Con¬ 
chology .) 
Type in Philippi Collection. Type locality, California. 
Range. Mendocino County, California, to Santa Barbara Islands. 
Fossil: Pleistocene, Santa Barbara and San Pedro; Pliocene, San Pedro. 
Described as Trockus (Chlorostoma) brunneus . 
Tegula brunnea fluctuosa Dali, 1919 
Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 56:359. 
The common form of brunnea has a nearly smooth surface or a surface 
affected by incremental rugosities, but there is another form rather widely 
spread which exhibits well-marked obliquely protective ribs to the number 
of 18 or 20 on the last whorl, reaching from the suture nearly to the 
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