Excerpt from A Descriptive Catalogue of Recent Shells, Arranged According to the Linnaean Method, Vol. 2 of 2: With Particular Attention to the Synonymy
Shell two, three, or four inches long, and more than two third: as broad, pale brown or fawn-colour, and sometimes mark ed with a few darker irregular spots or streaks there are on the body-whirl about eighteen broad ribs, with narrow inter stices having an elevated line in the middle; the spire con sists of five small whirls marked with a distinct groove.
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