Inhabits Cayenne, and probably some other parts of South America.
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London. Published as the Act directs, by E. Donovan & Mess.rs Simpkin & Marshall Aug.st 1, 1822.
CONCHOLOGY.
PLATE XV.
MUREX FOLIATUS
FOLIATED MUREX
OR, FOLIATED ROCK SHELL.
Univalve.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Shell spiral, rough with membranaceous sutures: aperture oval, ending in an entire straight or slightly ascending canal.
* Sutures expanding into crisped foliations: beak abbreviated Purpura Gmel.