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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 80808
Text Type: 1
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Created: 2015-11-03 20:45:16 - User Delsing Jan
Language: EN
Text function: [[t:1166907,textblock=80808,elang=EN;Description]]
Shell solid, biconical. Whorls six, rounded. Colour cinnamon, with several narrow zones of buff; aperture pale buff ; interior ochraceous-orange. Sculpture: Ribs slender, flexuous, fifteen to a whorl, spaced by more than their breadth, alternating from whorl to whorl, not rising above the suture, but extending thence to the base ; the inter-costal spaces are crossed by fine engraved striae. Aperture: Mouth linear, fortified by a thick broad varix, both sides beset with stout external denticules: ten on the left, nine on the right side. Length 10 mm., breadth 4.5 mm.
Source: Hedley, C., 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. (Original description)