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Subgenus Sulcosipho Dall 1916 Neptunea tabulata Baird Tabled Neptune Figure 5 if British Columbia to San Diego, California. 3 to 4 inches in length, moderately solid, with 8 whorls, colored white with a thin brown periostracum. Characterized by the wide, flat channel next to the suture. It is bounded by a raised, scaly or fimbriated spiral cord. Remainder of whorl with numerous sandpapery spiral threads. A choice col- lector's item, not uncommonly dredged from 30 to 200 fathoms. Genus Kelletia Fischer 1884 Kclletia kelleti Forbes Keller's Whelk Plate 24W Santa Barbara, California, to San Quentin Bay, Mexico. 4 to 5 inches in length, characterized by its very heavy, white, fusiform shell, its fine, wavy suture, and by the sharp, crenulated outer lip. Whorls slightly concave between the suture and the shouldered periphery, which bears 10 strong, rounded knobs per whorl. Base with about 6 to 10 incised, spiral lines. Aperture glossy and white. Very commonly caught in traps from 10 to 35 fathoms. There are no other recent species in the genus. Often misspelled with two t's. Genus Bailya M. Smith 1944 Bailya intricata Dall Intricate Baily-shell Plate 251 Southern half of Florida. /4 inch in length, fairly strong, pure white in color and with cancellate sculpturing. Last whorl with 12 to 14 low axial ribs which are crossed by about a dozen spiral cords (between which there may be a much smaller thread). At their intersection there are small beads. Outer lip with a frilled, rounded varix. Columella smooth. Weak spiral cord present on inside of aperture on the upper parietal wall. Whorls slightly shouldered. No notch in lower part of outer lip. Nuclear whorl smooth, glassy and rounded. Un- common from I to 50 fathoms. Bailya parva C. B. Adams from the West Indies differs in not having its whorls shouldered, having weaker spiral cords, and in occasionally having brown coloring. Genus Antillophos Woodring 1928 Antillophos candei Orbigny Cande's Phos Plate 25U North Carolina to south Florida and Cuba.