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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 113616
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Created: 2022-02-03 15:30:45 - User Jan Delsing
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Distribution: Texas, Florida to Brazil; Bermuda. Size: 8 to 10 mm.
Description: Color uniform dull white to tannish; shape broadly conic; sculpture of many axial, bladelike costae that do not connect with subsequent whorls; spiral sculpture of small threads between costae and even finer, microscopic axial threads intersecting the spiral threads within the inner spaces; nuclear whorls smooth; aperture subcircular; parietal shield over umbilical area; costae on body whorl pass under parietal shield and into umbilicus.
Habitat: Found from shoreline to a depth of about 244 m (800 ft).
Remarks: Rare species. Similar to E. novangliae, but lacks the hooklike structures that occur in the shoulder region. See Clench and Turner (1952).
Tunnell, J.W. , Andrews, J. , Barrera, N.C. & Moretzsohn, F., 2010. Encyclopedia of Texas seashells.