Distinguished from the Fusus by having a short depressed spire, and the
last whorl very large and ventricose, giving this shell the shape of a
pear.
Shell pyriform by the depression of the spire, the canal conical, very
long or middling, sometimes a little sloped; aperture oval, very large;
columella smooth.
Pyrula canaliculata.
P. carica.
P. perversa.
P. candelabrum.
P. ternatana.
P. bezoar.
P. rapa.
P. papyracea.
P. tuba.
P. bucephala.
P. vespertilio.
P. melongena.
P. reticulata.
P. ficus.
P. ficoides.
P. spirata.
P. spirillus.
P. elongata.
P. galcodes.
P. angulata.
P. squamosa.
P. nodosa.
P. citrina.
P. abbreviata.
P. neritoidea.
P. deformis.
P. lineata.
P. plicata.
_P. melongena._ The open-mouth Pyrula. Pl. 25, fig. 6.
Species ventricose, tube or canal short; aperture very large and effuse;
tuberculated, striated longitudinally.
_P. ficus._ The fig Pyrula.
Spire very short; volutions rounded above; very thin and ventricose;
colour yellowish brown, with dark brown spots; covered with decussated
striæ.