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Author: Jan Delsing
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Tritonoharpa lanceolata (Menke, 1828) Arrow Dwarf Triton
Distribution: North Carolina to Florida, Texas; Caribbean to Brazil. Size: 38 mm.
Description: Color cream with patches of orangish-brown on fresh specimens, dull yellowish-white on old specimens; shape elongate-fusiform; sculpture of spiral and axial ribs giving cancellate appearance; at least 1 varix on primary whorls extends over the suture; nuclear whorls smooth and somewhat flat; aperture ovate with outer apertural lip finely dentate on inner side; columella straight, bordered by white collar, sharply angled at parietal wall, and recurved at siphonal canal.
Habitat: Calcareous environments at depths from 0 to 178 m (585 ft).
Remarks: This species was collected at a shale uplift located northeast of the FGB. See
Ode (1986b); Redfern (2001).
Synonym: Colubraria lanceolata (Menke, 1828).
Tunnell, J.W. , Andrews, J. , Barrera, N.C. & Moretzsohn, F., 2010. Encyclopedia of Texas seashells.