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Leucotina helva Hedley, 1900

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Allogastropoda »  family Amathinidae »  genus Leucotina

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Leucotina helva

Author: Hedley, C.

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Description

Shell imperforate, slender, fusiform, thin, translucent and very glossy. Colour pale pink. Whorls eight, flattened, divided by an impressed suture. Sculpture: sharp incised and punctate grooves encircle each whorl; about 16 on the last and 5 on the penultimate. The intervening belts are faintly transversely striated. Aperture vertical, pyriform. rounded anteriorly. The columellar plication is so deeply seated that it is invisible in front; if the shell be revolved it comes into sight just as the interior of the aperture closes from view. Length 21 mm, breadth 9 mm.
Source Hedley, 1900. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part II.

Distribution

Australia: Off Cape Grenville, North Queensland.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Australian Faunal Directory [dff5882e-9aa9-4172-a824-a98e6def23a4]

ABRS (2009-2019): Australian Faunal Directory [https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/home], Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra [as Leucotina helva Hedley, 1900]
Data retrieved on: 13 February 2015
EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Leucotina helva Hedley, 1900]
Data retrieved on: 21 July 2015

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