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Compsodrillia fanoa (W.H. Dall, 1927)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Pseudomelatomidae »  genus Compsodrillia

Scientific synonyms

Clathrodrillia fanoa Dall, 1927

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Description

Shell small, white, strongly sculptured, the aperture shorter than the spire; with a smooth protoconch of a whorl and a half, and half a whorl of transitional thin sharp axial riblets before the latter assume the adult characters on the four subsequent whorls; suture appressed, the fasciole in front of it narrow and obscure; whorls well rounded; axial sculpture of 13-14 rounded ribs (on the last whorl) with wider interspaces, crossing the whorls on the spire, obsolete on the base; incremental lines not conspicuous; spiral sculpture of three strong cords, overriding the ribs; and about a dozen smaller plain threads on the base and canal; aperture rather narrow, anal sulcus very shallow, outer lip sharp, protractively arcuate, thin; pillar straight, somewhat gyrate but with an impervious axis; attenuated in front; canal rather long and wide. Length, 7; diameter, 3.1 mm. U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 107957.
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.

Distribution

USA. Florida. Off Fernandina.
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 Compsodrillia fanoa (Dall, 1927)]
Data retrieved on: 22 November 2013

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