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Author: Jan Delsing
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Created: 2022-03-21 21:19:04 - User Delsing Jan
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Shell small, narrowly fusiform, uniformly dark reddish-brown, sculptured with numerous rather weak narrowly rounded axials crossed by closely spaced spiral cords with linear interspaces. Whorls 5, including a smooth pupoid protoconch of 1,5 whorls. Axials slender, vertical, about 25 on the penultimate. Spiral cords evenly developed over all post-nuclear whorls, including the fasciole, 16 on penultimate. Columellar plaits four, oblique, uppermost strongest.
Height. 5.25 mm.; diameter, 2.25 mm.
Locality: Mayor Island, 1 mile off south-west end. from stomach of a tarakihi, taken in 50 fathoms (Mr. Gordon Williams, 20/2/1949).
Holotype: Presented to the Auckland Museum by Mr. Gordon Williams.
Powell, A. W. B. (1952). New Zealand molluscan systematics, with descriptions of new species. Part 1.