Popis
Autor: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 81271
Text Type: 1
Page: 0
Založeno: 22.11.2015 18:26:36 - Uživatel Delsing Jan
Poslední změna: 22.11.2015 18:27:43 - Uživatel Delsing Jan
Language: EN
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Shell elongate, solid, slightly glossy, yellowish-white, maculated with small irregular chestnut-brown spots, mostly confined to the ribs ; spire long, turreted, apex acute; whorls embryonal 3, brown, normal whorls 7, tabulate above, convex, last one produced into a short open slightly recurved canal; longitudinally ribbed, ribs small, compressed, rounded, slightly oblique, 13-14 on the body whorl, crossed by small, revolving elevated lines, forming granules where they intersect the ribs; aperture oblong, sub-rhomboid; posterior sinus very deep, ovate; peristome strongly varicose externally, rather acute, crenulate, and abbreviately lyrate within; columella faintly rugose with oblique wrinkles, nearly vertical, and together with the parietal region thinly callous.
Length 8 mm.
Source: Garrett, 1873. Descriptions of new species of marine shells inhabiting the South Sea Islands. (Original description)