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Emarginula curvamen Iredale, 1925

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Lepetellida »  family Fissurellidae - Keyhole Limpets »  genus Emarginula

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Emarginula curvamen

Author: Iredale, T.

Emarginula curvamen

Author: Grove, S.

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Description

Shell elevated, round-backed, apex incurved, projecting beyond the edge of the base, anterior slope very convex, posterior slope almost perpendicular. Colour cream. Slit long, about one-fourth the length of anterior slope, furrow a channel showing distant growth bridges, the edges a little uneven. Sculpture consisting of about twenty primary ribs, with about an equal number of subordinate ones crossed by twenty to forty concentric ridges, forming indistinct nodulation at points of intersection and shallow pits at intervals.
Length 8.5; breadth 5.5; height 4 mm.
Iredale, T. (1925). Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia.

Distribution

From 128 fathoms, twenty miles east of Maria Island, Tasmania.
Iredale, T. (1925). Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia.
Author: Jan Delsing

Similar species

Emarginula natalensis K.H. Barnard, 1963

Links and literature

EN Australian Faunal Directory [aa5f2af4-36ae-48cf-94fb-07d37684b9b2]

ABRS (2009-2019): Australian Faunal Directory [https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/home], Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra [as Emarginula curvamen Iredale, 1925]
Data retrieved on: 15 February 2015
EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Emarginula curvamen Iredale, 1925]
Data retrieved on: 21 July 2015

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