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Author: Jan Delsing
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Created: 2022-02-03 15:36:01 - User Jan Delsing
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Distribution: Southeast Florida to Brazil; Texas. Size: 12 to 25 mm.
Description: Color whitish-ivory; shape broadly conic; sculpture of 10 to 11 extremely convex whorls attached by extended bladelike costae; shoulder tips of the costae are somewhat high and tapered, giving a hooklike appearance; spire extended; nuclear whorls smooth; anomphalous; aperture subcircular; outer lip thickened and somewhat flattened exteriorly; operculum corneous, paucispiral, thin.
Habitat: From shoreline to deep water at depths from 0 to 219 m (718 ft).
Remarks: May only be a subspecies of E. angulatum (Say, 1830). See Clench and Turner
(1951).
Tunnell, J.W. , Andrews, J. , Barrera, N.C. & Moretzsohn, F., 2010. Encyclopedia of Texas seashells.