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Title: The Mollusca of Funafuti, Part 1.

Author: Charles Hedley

In: The Atoll of Funafuti, Ellice group : its zoology, botany, ethnology and general structure based on collections made by Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W.

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The Atoll of Funafuti, Ellice group : its zoology, botany, ethnology and general structure based on collections made by Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W.

Pyramidella turrita, A. Adams

Pyramidella turrita, A. Adams.

Tryon, op. cit., p. 301, pl. lxxii., figs. 84, 85.

A few dead shell from the lagoon beach. Tryon records this from New Caledonia.

In these two latter species, aged or adult individuals develop plicæ within the lip, a fact omitted in monographs.