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Shell ovate, somewhat ventricose, whorls encircled with three or four 
rude ribs, ribs swollen here and there, engraved with striae, interstices 
guttered, interior of the aperture denticulated, marginal tooth very long, 
curved inward; brown, variegated with black blotches or flames, colu¬ 
mella and interior of the aperture purple-brown. ( Conchologica Iconica.) 
Type in Museum Cuming. Type locality, California. 
Range. San Diego, California, to Magdalena Bay, Lower California, 
and the Galapagos Islands. 
Genus FORRERIA Jousseaume, 1880 
Shell large, whorls six or seven, spinose on the shoulder; canal long 
and somewhat recurved; umbilicus wide and deep. Outer lip smooth, 
with a prominent spine or tooth, inner lip with a thin wash of callus. 
(I. Oldroyd.) 
Type. Chorus belcheri Hinds. 
Distribution. California and Japan. 
Forreria belcheri Hinds, 1843 
Plate 32, figs. 2, 5 
Proceedings, Zoological Society of London, 127. Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. 
Sulphur; PI. 2, figs. 1-2, 1844. 
Mur. testa magna, fusiformi, crassa, ponderosa, pallide fusca, multi- 
varicosa; anfractibus quadratis, albo fasciatis; varicibus numerosis, folia- 
ciis simplicibus, superne elongatis, fornicatis, aetate valde erosis; apertura 
quadrata, pallide carnea; labro intus laevi, inferne dente magno, crasso, 
obtuso; canali tortuoso, aperto, ad sinistram inclinato; umbilico praecipue 
magno. Axis, 66 lin. (Hinds.) 
Shell very light brown, sometimes with two obscure darker bands; 
aperture white within. Length, 3-5 in. (Tryon, Manual of Conchology .) 
Type in British Museum? Type locality, San Diego, California. 
Range. San Pedro to San Diego, California, to Scammons Lagoon, 
Lower California. 
Family CORALLIOPHILIDAE 
Genus CORALLIOPHILA H. and A. Adams, 1853 
Shell with the outer and inner lips irregular, moderate, not produced 
into an extended process closing the aperture. (H. and A. Adams.) 
Type. Coralliophila neritoides Lamarck. 
Distribution. Central Pacific, Hawaiian Islands, West Indies, 
South Africa, Java, Japan, Mazatlan Panama, Galapagos Islands. 
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