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Hamiltons Metastoma
Metastoma hamiltoni Dall, 1897

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Pulmonata - pulmonates »  family Urocoptidae

Size

Height 19 mm. Width max. 5 mm.

Distribution

Rio Grande Mountains, Brewster County , Texas USA.

Description

Shell slender, polished, spindle-shaped, pinkish-white, with a darker livid apex, and about 13 whorls ; nucleus blunt, smooth, later three whorls delicately obliquely striated, tentral whorls smooth, last whorl with delicate oblique riblets with wider interspaces ; aperture projected, rounded, subangular at the right posterior corner, the lip entire, reflected, the pillar rather wide; the last whorl flattened and attenuated.
[Dall, 1897. Original description]
Author: Jan Delsing

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