CONCHOLOGY.
PLATE XVI.
MUREX SCORPIO
var Minor
LEAST STAG’S HORN MUREX.
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.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
SYNONYMS.
Shell with four rows of foliations: spire capitate: beak truncated.
Murex Scorpio: testa quadrifariam frondosa: spira capitata, cauda truncata. Mus. Lud. Ulr. 628. n. 296.—Gmel. Linn. Syst. T. 1. p. 6. 3529. 14.—Rumpf. Mus. t. 26. f. D.—Seba. Mus. 3. tab. 77. fig. 13. 16.
Cochlis volutata muricata parva sex duplici laciniarum serie horrida, spiris quatuor capitatis faucibus, quasi Scorpionum forficulis armatis. Purpura quæ Scorpio Auctorum. Chemn.