Conus deperditus (Suter, 1917)
Conospira suteri (Cossmann, 1918)
Conospira fracta (Finlay, 1927)
Description.
Shell rather small, elongately biconic, with a high gradated spire, the median angle of the whorls slightly crenate, body-whorl high, conic, narrow, margins of aperture parallel.
Spire high, gradate, but all the specimens have the upper whorls broken off. Whorls of the spire angled at the middle, the last whorl with a steep narrow shoulder, a little contracted below the angle, very little convex and gradually tapering towards the anterior end. Aperture narrow, oblique, the margins parallel. Outer lip slightly convex, with a deep sinus between suture and angle. Columella long and oblique, somewhat convex (2).
Sculpture: One specimen only shows a small remnant of the shell with the crenation upon the angle, but all others are smooth casts.
Height, 30 mm.; diameter, 13 mm. (imperfect holotype; a cast).
Holotype in the collection of the New Zealand Geological Survey.
Loc. - No. 44 = Brewery Creek, near mouth of Mokihinui River, South-west Nelson : McKay, 1874. - Miocene.
When he
proposed the name Conospira fracta for Conus deperditus (Suter,
1917), Finlay was unaware that Cossmann had already proposed the name Conus
suteri for the same species (1).
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Conus
deperditus (Suter, 1917) (2) Conus
suteri (Cossmann, 1918) Conospira
fracta (Finlay, 1927) Holotype
TM 5616 Plate
XII Fig.26 mm. 30
x 13 Miocene
– New Zealand
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Bibliografia Consultata
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(1) - Finlay (1927) “New Names for
Austral Mollusca”