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Author



Alternative names	Alcock; A. Alcock; A. W. Alcock
Description	-British physician
Date of birth/death	23 June 1859	24 March 1933
Location of birth/death	Mumbai	Belvedere
Authority file	: Q947470 VIAF: 5446440 ISNI: 0000000083530453 LCCN: n85800190 NLA: 36545497 Open Library: OL5755163A WorldCat

Description

English: Indian Deep-Sea Mollusca

A specimen of Xenophora pallidula, from the Andaman Sea, 185 fathoms.... Among the dead shells used as a fortification are--

(a) Gemmula congener (E. A. Smith, 1894) (synonym: Pleurotoma congener),
(b) Cochlespira travancorica (E. A. Smith, 1896) (synonym: Pleurotoma travancorica),
(c) Spirotropis carinata (Bivona, 1838) † (synonym: Pleurotoma carinata), and
(d) Drillia captiva.

The dead shells utilised as building-material are not stuck on indiscriminately, but are arranged along the edge of each whorl

Subject: Turritellidae, Turridae, Shells, Xenophora, Spirotropis
Tag: Mollusks

Date

1902.00

Collection

University of Washington

	Native name	University of Washington
	Location	Seattle, Washington, United States of America
	Coordinates	47° 39′ 15″ N, 122° 18′ 29″ W
	Established	1861
	Website	www.washington.edu
	Authority file	: Q219563 VIAF: 265500071 ISNI: 0000000122986657 ULAN: 500308857 LCCN: n79054596 NLA: 35573202 WorldCat

Current location

English: Freshwater and Marine Image Bank

Accession number

47681

Source/Photographer

English: Alcock, Alfred W. (1902) Naturalist in Indian Seas : or, Four Years with the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship 'Investigator', New York City, NY: E. P. Dutton & Co.

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This is a photograph from the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank at the University of Washington. Materials in the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank are in the public domain. No copyright permissions are needed. Acknowledgement of the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank as a source for borrowed images is requested.

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