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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 127720
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Created: 2023-08-18 15:04:58 - User Delsing Jan
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Shell thin, ovate and flattened. Apex at about anterior third. Slopes straight or slightly convex. Surface almost smooth. Cream or light brown in colour, overlain with a red-brown, fine reticulate pattern and fine radial lines; sometimes a few broad, dark-brown to black radial bands. Occasional specimens with irregular "Maltese Cross" pattern. Interior with bluish rim around muscle scar; spatula usually brown, margin showing external colour pattern.
Radula: Inner lateral teeth with pointed cusps and short bases. Outer lateral teeth with short bases; inner cusps broad, pointed, about equal in length to cusps of inner lateral teeth; outer cusps small, rounded. Marginal teeth long, with curled cusps. Radular segment wider than long.
Dimensions Height 4 mm; Width 9,5 mm; Length 12 mm
Ponder, W. F.; Creese, R. G. (1980). A revision of the Australian species of Notoacmea, Collisella and Patelloida (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Acmaeidae).