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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 86804
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Created: 2018-02-11 12:52:07 - User Delsing Jan
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Type species: Trochus flindersi Fischer 1878. King George Sound, S.W.A.
Shell very narrowly perforate, conical, rather thick; whorls seven to eight, planulate, the first eroded, the succeeding whitish-ashen, radiated with narrow, close and flexuose blackish and violaceous lines; spirally cingulate; lirae six on the penultimate whorl; last whorl subangular, a little depressed above, dilated in the middle; base convex, ornamented with about eight lirae; aperture rhomboidal; lip simple; columella arcuate, truncate below.
Distribution: Southern Australia.
Remarks: The shell may be very narrowly or not perforate, when the umbilical area is marked by a depression. The smooth columella distinguishes the genus from Thalotia and Odontotrochus while the lack of the distinctive tooth separates it from Phasianotrochus and Cantharidus.
Cotton, B.C., 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda.