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genus

Euryentmema W.P. Woodring, 1928

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Mangeliidae

Description

Shell small, 5-9.3 mm., fusiform-ovate, with a moderately tall spire of strongly convex, weakly shouldered whorls, and a rounded body-whorl, excavated over the neck, and terminated in a short shallowly notched anterior canal. Protoconch stout, cylindrical, of about 11 smooth whorls, with a few subsutural axial wrinkles near its close. Adult sculpture of numerous narrow flexuous axial ribs, overridden by crisp spiral cords, which are slightly gemmulate at the points of intersection. The axials are continuous from suture to suture on the first post-nuclear whorl, but later become subobsolete over the shallow shoulder sulcus, which leaves the commencement of the axials as a sutural row of gemmules. Aperture wide, outer lip thin-edged, with a deep and wide sutural sinus "like Pleurotomella" (i.e., reversed L-shape); also with a relatively deep stromboid notch below. Parietal callus thin, no apertural processes. Range — Known by the type species and an undescribed one, both from the Miocene of Bowden, Jamaica.
Powell, 1966.The Molluscan Families Speightiidae and Turridae. (Secundary description)
Author: Jan Delsing

Included taxa

Number of records: 1

species Euryentmema australiana Shuto, 1983

Euryentmema australiana


Links and literature

EN The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [1067409]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [https://www.irmng.org] [as Euryentmema Woodring, 1928]
Data retrieved on: 8 December 2019

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