Okay, that lets me run down the original:
Ranella pulchra Sowerby, 1836, Conchological Illustrations, Ranella, fig.
19. [It is a manuscript name of Gray, apparently first validated by Sowerby.
Jay (1839, pl. 2) notes that Ranella pulchra is the same as Biplex perca
Perry, 1811].
Gary
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