Haumea loxoides (G. B. Sowerby II, 1882)
SOWERBY II, G. B. 1882. Descriptions of new species of shells in the collection of Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill. Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London, 1882: 117-121, pl. 5. [p. 120, pl. 5, fig. 13]
1882 Pecten loxoides G. B. Sowerby II, 1882
1938 Haumea juddi Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938
1938 Haumea juddi Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938
G. B. Sowerby II, 1882, plate 5.
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«Shell rather thin, obliquely subovate, inequilateral, white, with the upper valve transversely undulately streaked, and spotted with pinkish orange. Lower valve rather deep, upper slightly convex. Radiating ribs 20 in number, prominent, rounded, smooth; interstices about equal in width to the ribs, also smooth. Auricles small, the right rather larger than the left. Alt. 25, lat. 24 millim.
Hab. Australia. The valves of the specimen are odd; there are also odd valves of the same species in the British Museum. The species is quite unlike any hitherto described, and may be easily recognized by the obliquity of its outline.» GEORGE BRETTINGHAM SOWERBY II, 1882 |