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Eulimella buijsi Aartsen, Gittenberger & Goud, 2000

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

Size

Height 3.0 - 3.6 mm ; Width 1.0 - 1.2 mm; Holotype : 3.7 x 1.2 mm.

Distribution

Cape Verde Islands

Description

Shell whitish to slightly cream-colored, forming a slender cone.
Embryonic whorls planorbid,diameter about 400 mu. Teleoconch with four and a half to five and a half slightly convex whorls. The first teleoconch whorl somewhat covers the embryonic ones. Suture well-marked, somewhat incised. Growthlines nearly orthocline. Shell smooth, without a spiral microsculpture, Outer lip evenly rounded, smooth inside. There is neither an umbilicus, nor any tooth or fold on the columella.
[Van Aartsen, 1998]

Interchangeable taxa

This species is somewhat like Eulimella robusta van Aartsen, Gittenberger & Goud, 1998, from Mauritania. However, that species is larger, has flat or even slightly concave whorls, and a less clearly inclined suture; There is also a vague fold on the columella.
[Van Aartsen, 1998]
Authors: Jan Delsing, [Van Aartsen, 1998]

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