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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 127722
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Created: 2023-08-18 16:02:31 - User Delsing Jan
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Shell subcircular, high, conical, sculptured, with twelve or thirteen broad whitish radiating ribs, between which occur one or more whitish radiating bands, the interstices being of a blackish-brown colour ; apex very posteriorly situate, slightly overhanging; margin of shell painted with brownish black alternating with whitish, slightly produced both anteriorly and posteriorly, so that the shell does not lie quite flat when placed upon a plane; spatula whitish, not well defined posteriorly, anteriorly broadly margined with rich blackish brown, Concentrically painted, especially towards the base, with elongate blotches of pure white; below the spatula the shell shades from yellowish to bluish white, the surface being marked with multitudinous, interlacing, scratch-like striae.
Alt. 12, diam. maj. 15 mm.
Hab. Falkland Islands (A, G. Bennett).
Preston, H. B. (1913). Description of fifteen new species and varieties of marine shells from the Falkland Islands.