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Eulimella vanderlandi Aartsen, Gittenberger & Goud, 2000

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Allogastropoda »  family Pyramidellidae

Size

Heigth 2.0-2.7 mm, Width 0.7 - 0.8 mm ; Holotype 2.7 x 0.8 mm.

Distribution

Cape Verde Islands

Description

Shell whitish, slender conical. Embryonic whorls helicoid, measuring 250-300 mu in diameter. Teleoconch consisting of four to five flat whorls, separated by a moderately incised suture. Growthlines opisthocline, sometimes forming axial folds resembling faint axial striae. There is only a rather vague spiral microsculpture. Outer lip straight, smooth inside. An umbilicus is lacking. A tooth or fold is absent.
[Van Aartsen, 1998]
Authors: Jan Delsing, Van Aartsen, 1998

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