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Author: Jan Delsing
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Created: 2019-11-04 20:33:01 - User Delsing Jan
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Shell ovate or squarish, thin and fragile, smooth, spirally striate or punctate, or latticed, translucent, pale-colored; consisting of few loosely convoluted whorls, which are entirely open from below; spire sunken; aperture very large, broadly effuse below, the outer lip retracted joining a wide sinus above. Columella thin, arcuate. (Tryon and Pilsbry, Manual of Conchology.)
TYPE. Philine aperta Lamarck.
DISTRIBUTION. Indies, Greenland, Norway, Britain, Mediterranean, Korea, Borneo, North Pacific. Fossil: Eocine ....
Oldroyd, I.S. The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America. Volume II.1.