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Show 108 DR. GWYN JEFFREYS ON THE MOLLUSCA OF THE [Mar. 6, fresh-looking, and all have evidently lived and died on the spots where they occurred. Bistribution. W . Norway (M. Sars, Asbjorvsen, Friele, Norman, and J. G. J.), Cape Breton (de Folin), N . Spain (' Travailleur' Exp.), Mediterranean, Adriatic, and Madeira; 20-250 fms. Submarine Telegraph-Cable between Cagliari and Bona; 1100-1500 fms. 1 Monodonta tinei, Calcara (1839), M. limbata, Philippi (1844), Trochus bilabiatus, Phil, in Martini and Chemnitz ed. Kiister (1846). Young and fry : T. horridus and LLeliciella costellata, O. G. Costa. It will thus be" seen that this remarkable and widely dispersed shell has been placed in five different genera, to which must be added Craspedotus of Philippi (1847) and Danilia of Brusina (1864). It is true that Olivia was proposed by Bertolini in 1810 for a genus of Polygastrica; but there is no probability of any confusion arising on "that account, because these classes of the Invertebrata are so widely separated. Family VIII. TURBINID.E. 1. T U R B O RUGOSUS, L. S. N. p. 1234: Chemn. Conch. Cab. v. t. 180. f. 1782-85 ; young (as T. calcar), f. 1786, 7. 'Porcupine' Exp. 1870: Atl. St. 36; Med. Algesiras B., Benzert Road. Distribution. Coasts of S.W. France and N. Spain, throughout tbe Mediterranean and Adriatic, Mogador, Madeira, and Canaries; 0-80 fms., living in the littoral and laminarian zones. Fossil. Miocene : Vienna Basin (Homes), Malaga (Duncan), Piedmont (Foresti). Pliocene : Italy and Rhodes. Post-tertiary : S. France and Tuscany. Although this common Mediterranean shell has always been recognized and known as tbe T. rugosus of Linne, tbe only habitat given by him was "India;" but he evidently was not acquainted with Mediterranean shells except from tbe works of other writers and from collections made by some of his pupils. There are a few obsolete synonyms. Tbe operculum is used for female ornament in Italy, and called " occhio di bue." 2. TURBO PELORITANUS, Cantraine. T. peloritanus, Cantr. Diagn. de quelq. esp. nouv. de Moll. (1837), p. 11 ; Mai. Med. (1840), pi. vi. f. 22. 'Porcupine' Exp. 1870 : Atl. St. 1, 2, 3a, 24-2Sa. Distribution. Bay of Biscay ('Travailleur' Exp.), Mediterranean ('Washington' Exp.), G. Florida (Pourtales) ; 125-731 fms. Fossil. Pliocene : Calabria and Sicily. Trochus filosus, Philippi. Var. carinata. Smaller, and usually having a single peripheral keel instead of several spiral ribs. Turbo carinatus, Cantr. loc. cit. f. 23 = Trochus glabratus, Phil. Not Trochus carinatus of Borson, a niiocene fossil, which Homes placed in Turbo. The body or animal is white. Young shells are umbilicate. |
