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Helicofusus laticordatus (Dall, 1907)

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

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Helicofusus laticordatus

Author: Oldroyd, I.

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Description

As plicifusus laticordatus:
Shell a deeply orange-tinted, with four whorls, strongly recurved, short canal, but with the spirals about twice as wide as in the type, flat above and with distinctly channeled interspaces in which the incremental lines are strong. Long, of shell, 20; max. lat., 11; and of the last whorl,
15; aperture, 11 mm. (Dall.)
TYPE in United States National Museum, No. 122664. Type locality,
Station 3279, in 41 fathoms, Bristol Bay, Alaska. RANGE. Bering Sea to Straits of Juan de Fuca.
Oldroyd, I.S. The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America. Volume II.1.
Author: Jan Delsing

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