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Gibberula ocellus (W.H. Dall, 1927)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Marginellidae - Margin Shells »  genus Gibberula

Scientific synonyms

Gibberula ocella (W.H. Dall, 1927)
Cystiscus ocellus (Dall, 1927)

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Gibberula ocellus

Author: Kaicher Cards

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Description

Shell small, short, stout, translucent white, with a very short spire of about three and a half whorls, smoothly overglazed; axial sculpture of obsolescent incremental lines, surface polished; there is no spiral sculpture; aperture nearly as long as the shell, narrow, the outer lip nearly straight, thickened but not varicose nor crenulate; body and pillar not enamelled, bearing four subequal plaits, the anterior rounding evenly about a rather deep sinus to the outer lip; axis impervious. Length, 5.5; diameter, 3.5 mm. U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 107977.
Off Fernandina, abundant.
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 Cystiscus ocellus (Dall, 1927)]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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