typhinia

[Mod. Lat., from typhus (q. v.).] Pathol.: Relapsing fever. *typh-is, s . [Gr.typhos=smoke.] Zool. & Palæont .: A genus of Muricide, with nine species, from the Mediterranean, West Africa, Cape, India, and Western America, to a depth of fifty fathoms. Shell like Murex, but with tubular spines between the varices, of which the last is open, and occupied by the excurrent canal. Fo il species eight, from the Eocene onward.