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Fusceulima mangonuica (Powell, 1940)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Littorinimorpha »  family Eulimidae »  genus Fusceulima

Scientific synonyms

Eulima mangonuica A. W. B. Powell, 1940

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Fusceulima mangonuica

Author: Powell

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Description

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)
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 Fusceulima mangonuica (Powell, 1940)]
Data retrieved on: 22 November 2013

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