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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 87161
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Created: 2018-05-25 22:40:10 - User Delsing Jan
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Shell minute, straight-spired, solid, subcylindrical, with blunt rounded apex, thickened labial varix, light yellowish-brown, glossy. Whorls 4 ¾, including the blunt protoconch of one whorl. Outline of spire whorls straight; body-whorl broadly angled at periphery, base slightly convex. Suture faint, false margined. Spire twice height of aperture. Aperture pyriform; peristome thickened. Outer lip straight, in line with axis. Inner lip defined as a callus. Imperforate.
Height, 1·1 mm.; diameter, 0·4 mm. (holotype).
Holotype presented to Auckland Museum.
Locality: Off Mangonui Heads in 6 fathoms, Doubtless Bay (W. La Roche).
Powell, 1940. The Marine Mollusca of the Aupourian Province (Original Description)