The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by A.E. Shipley, assisted by Guy A.K. Marshall. Mollusca. (Freshwater Gastropoda & Pelecypoda.) / by H.B. Preston.

Date:
1915
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Credit: The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by A.E. Shipley, assisted by Guy A.K. Marshall. Mollusca. (Freshwater Gastropoda & Pelecypoda.) / by H.B. Preston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Range. S. & E. Asia; Malay Archipelago; islands of the Pacific. Shell suhulate, elongated ; spire many-whorled, acute; whorls smooth, not spinose ; aperture ovate, acuminate, posteriorly entire, rounded in front; inner lip thin, not callous; outer lip simple, acute, margin entire. (II. A. Adams.) 20. Tiara (Radina) hastula {Lea). Tiara (Radina) hastula (Lea), P. Z. S. 1850, p. 189; Conch.-Cab. ii, pi. 16, figs. 3, 3 b ; fide Brot. Melania costata, auct. [not of Quoy]. MelaniaJlammulata, Busch [not of Reeve], Melanta picta, Eve. [not of Hinds]. Melania acuta, live, [not of Lea]. Melania arroensis, Eve., Nevill, Hand List, pt. 2, p. 228. Original description :—Testa striata, nonnunquam plicata, elon- gata subulata, diaphana, tenni, fusca, striis transversis crebris costulas decussantibus ; spira acuminata; suturis linearibus ; an- fractibus plano-convexis; apertura parvula, ovata, intus vel fusca vel albida ; columella incurva tortaque. Alt. 83, diam. 20-25 mm. Hab. Philippines; India. Var. subacutissima, Nevill, torn. cit. Spiral striation on base of last whorl distinct: upper wborls obscurely dotted and flamed with brown and peculiarly alternate Alt. 55, diam. 16 mm. Hab. Andamans (Roepstorff). Subvar. subcrenulata, Nevill, torn. cit. p. 229. Alt. 51, diam. 16-75 mm. Hab. Andamans (Roepstorff). 21. Tiara (Radina) crenulata (Deshayes). Tiara (Radina) crenulata (Deshaves), Lamarck, Hist. Anim. s. Vert. ed. 2, viii, 1838, p. 434. Bulimus torulosus, Brug. Encycl. M6th., Vers, i, p. 352 ? Helix crenata, Dillwyn, Cat. ii, p. 950, no. 144; Nevill, Hand List, pt. 2, p. 225. Original description:—Testa elongato-turrita, apice truncata albo- fuscescente obsolete sulcata; anfractibus latis subplanis ad suturam depressis, marginatis ; margine lato, excavato; apertura magna, ovali, ad basim dilatata ; columella coutorta, crassa. Alt. 64, diam. 21 mm. Hah. Philippines.