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Anomalisipho acosmius (Dall, 1891)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Buccinidae - Whelks »  genus Anomalisipho

Scientific synonyms

Colus acosmius W. H. Dall, 1891

Images

Anomalisipho acosmius

Author: Kantor & Sysoev

Anomalisipho acosmius

Author: Dall, W.H.

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Description

Shell elongated, with six or seven whorls covered with a dull greenish epidermis and spirally sulcate with rather distant, narrow, shallow grooves, eighteen to twenty on the penultimate whorl; suture distinct, whorls flattened, canal very short and recurved; aperture white, without callus, lip hardly reflected. Length of shell, 60; of aperture, 25; breadth, 23 mm. (Dall.)
TYPE in United States National Museum. Type locality, U.S.S. "Albatross" Station 3329, off Unalaska Islands, Bering Sea. RANGE. Off Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea to Unalaska.
Oldroyd, I.S. The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America. Volume II.1.
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 Colus acosmius Dall, 1891]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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