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Ascalista polita Nevill & Nevill, 1875

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Columbellidae - Dove Shells »  genus Ascalista

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Ascalista polita

Author: Jan Delsing

Ascalista polita

Author: Monsecour & Pelorce

Ascalista polita

Author: Monsecour & Monsecour

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Description

This is a small species, about 4 mm shell length, with a bulbous, unsculptured protoconch. The shell is narrowly biconic, smooth and glossy, with no sculpture. The aperture is slightly sinuous and is narrowed by a thickened but not denticulate labial edge, which is shorter anteriorly than the tip of siphonal canal. Shell colour and pattern are variable.
Maintenon, M. de, 2008; Results of the Rumphius Biohistorical Expedition to Ambon (1990). Part 14. The Columbellidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) collected at Ambon during the Rumphius Biohistorical Expedition
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 Ascalista polita (Nevill & Nevill, 1875)]
Data retrieved on: 22 November 2013
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