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LAMELLARIIDAE 175
Strombus ranimis Gmelin Hawk-wing Conch
Southeast Florida and the West Indies.
Plate 5c
2 to 4 inches in length. Shell bluntly spinose with the last two spines
on the last whorl by far the largest. Outer lip points upward at the top.
Color of outer shell a brownish gray with chocolate-brown mottlings. Aper-
ture cream-colored with a salmon-pink interior. Common in the West Indies.
S. bitiiberculatus Lamarck is the same species.
Strombus gallus Linne Rooster-tail Conch
Southeast Florida (rare) and the West Indies.
Plate 56
4 to 6 inches in length, characterized by the long extension of the poste-
rior end of the outer lip and the rather high spire. This species is not at all
common, although it may be obtained in fair numbers along the north coast of
Jamaica.
Superfmiily CYPRAEACEA
Family LAMELLARIIDAE
Genus Lamellaria Montagu 1815
Lamellaria diegoensis Dall San Diego Lamellaria
Southern California.
Figure 43d
% inch in length, equally wide, quite fragile and transparent-white in
color. 3 whorls moderately globose, the last large. Aperture very large.
Columella very thin. Surface smoothish, except for fine, irregular growth
lines. Periostracum thin, clear and glossy. Uncommon offshore.
Lamellaria rhombica Dall (Washington to Lower California) is the same
size, much flatter and thicker-shelled, and is opaque-white in color. Its colu-
mella is thicker and ridge-like. This species is more common than the pre-
ceding and is commonly washed ashore.
Subfamily VELUTININAE
Genus Velutina Fleming 1821
Velutina laevigata Linne Smooth Velutina
Plate 2 2n
Labrador to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Alaska to Monterey, Cahfomia.
34 to % inch in length, very thin and fragile, translucent amber, and
covered with a thick, brownish periostracum which is spirally ridged. Colu-
mella arched and narrow. Common offshore from 3 to 50 fathoms. V. undata