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MURIGIDAE 207
described, and we have figured the subspecies scalariformis Gould, commonly
dredged in the Grand Banks.
Boreotrophon scitulus Dall
Alaska to San Diego, California.
Handsome Trophon
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I to 1% inches in length, rather fragile, pure-white in color, with a
rather long siphonal canal. Characterized by 5 or 6 spiral rows of long, deli-
cate, anteriorly hollowed spines. In the spire only two rows show. Operculum
thin, light-brown, chitinous, ungulate. Rare, 50 to 250 fathoms.
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Figure 46. Pacific Coast Trophons. a, Boreotrophon dalli Kobelt; b, B. triangiila-
tus Cpr.; c, B. iniilticostatiis Esch.; d, B. scitulus Dall; e, B. orpheiis Gould; f,
B. pacificus Dall. All about natural size.
Boreotrophon miilticostatiis Eschscholtz Many-ribbed Trophon
Bering Sea to San Pedro, California. Northern Japan.
Figure 46c
I to i^ inches in length, short canal, deep suture, 5 or 6 whorls are
shouldered above. Characterized by the flaring thin lip, brownish aperture,
8 to 10 lamella-like ribs per whorl, and weak microscopic spiral threads.
Moderately common; littoral in Alaska, 10 to 30 fathoms in Puget Sound.
Boreotrophon stiiarti E. A. Smith
Alaska to San Diego, California.
Stuart's Trophon
Plate 24)
2 inches in length, waxy texture, pure-white to yellow-cream, with 9
to 1 1 strong, lamella-like, high-shoulder ribs per each of the 7 whorls. Whorls
in spire cancellated by the 2- or 3 -spiral raised cords. Body whorl with 5
very weak spiral rounded threads. B. s?mthi Dall is the same. Uncommon
from low tide (in Alaska) to 25 fathoms.