Australian Museum Journal Description of a new Papuan land shell
- Shortform:
- Hedley, 1897, Rec. Aust. Mus. 3(1): 11–12
- Author(s):
- Hedley, Charles
- Year published:
- 1897
- Title:
- Description of a new Papuan land shell
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 3
- Issue:
- 1
- Start page:
- 11
- End page:
- 12
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.3.1897.1118
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 07 January 1897
- Cover date:
- 07 January 1897
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Digitized:
- 09 October 2008
- Reference number:
- 1118
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (85kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (292kb PDF)
Abstract
[No abstract is give for this work, it begins as follows] Thersites septentrionalis, n.sp. Shell turbinate conic, narrowly perforate, large, solid, brownish yellow with deep chocolate bands. A third of the base is occupied by a broad chocolate band whose outer margin reaches the insertion of the lip, a yellow peripheral zone of less width follows, a chocolate band as wide as the last and which becomes supersutural in the upper whorls, a narrow yellow, a wider chocolate, a narrow yellow, and a narrow subsutural chocolate ... [etc.]