Chlamys natalensis E. A. Smith, 1906
SMITH, E. A. 1906. On South African Mollusca, with descriptions of new species. Annals of the Natal Government Museum, 1: 19-71, pls. 7, 8. [p. 60, pl. 8, figs. 7, 7a, 8, 8a]
«* Chlamys natalensis n. sp. PI. VIII, figs. 7, 8 a.
Testa parva, mediocriter compressa, inaequilateralis, fere aequivalvis, altior quam longa, grisea, radiis nigris interruptis et maculis albis supra valvam sinistram picta; valva dextra costis tenuibus circiter 40 fere laevibus fusco notatis instructa, in interstitiis pulcherrime cancellatim sculpta, auricula antica magna, pallida, costis circiter 9 squamatis instructa, postica parva, costis 5-6 squamatis ornata; valva sinistra costis squamis numerosis brevibus; pagina interna alba nigro-fusco interruptim lineata.
Longit. 20 mm., alt. 23·5, diam. 7·5. Hab.— Durban (McBean). This species is separable from Ch. tinctus on account of its coarser and more equal ribs and the very different sculpture in the intervening grooves. This consists of a fine crosshatching of crisscross striae, in some places looking like the remains of a periostracum. The partial absence of scales upon the right valve is in some measure due to attrition.» [*] "By consulting, therefore, the present paper, that in the 'Proc. Malac. Soc.,' and Mr. Sowerby's work, a complete list of the known South African species can be extracted.
Those not in Mr. Sowerby's book or my former paper are marked with an asterisk in the following pages." (p. 19) EDGAR ALBERT SMITH, 1906
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E. A. Smith, 1906, plate 8.
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