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Inodrillia ebur W.H. Dall, 1927

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Horaiclavidae »  genus Inodrillia

Description

Shell small, white, solid, with a swollen nucleus of a whorl and a half and five and a half subsequent whorls; suture distinct, not appressed, with a slightly constricted fasciole in front of it; axial sculpture of (on the last whorl 10-11) rounded flexuous smooth ribs, most prominent at the periphery on the spire, sigmoidly flexed on the last whorl and absent from the base; the interspaces are equal or wider than the ribs; there is no spiral sculpture; the aperture is wide, less than a third of the whole length, the anal sulcus wide and deep, the outer lip very prominently protractively arcuate, the pillar short, the canal short and wide, the axis not pervious. Length, 8; diameter, 3.2 mm. U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 107948.
Dall, W.H., 1927. Small shells from dredgings off the southeast coast of the United States by the United States Fisheries Steamer 'Albatross' in 1885 and 1886.

Distribution

Off Fernandina, Florida, USA.
Dall, W.H., 1927. Small shells from dredgings off the southeast coast of the United States by the United States Fisheries Steamer 'Albatross' in 1885 and 1886.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Inodrillia ebur (Dall, 1927)]
Data retrieved on: 22 November 2013

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