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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 107906
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Created: 2021-04-12 01:21:36 - User Delsing Jan
Language: EN
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Shell minute, slender, smooth, subrimate, rather fragile, shining, and semitransparent. Sculpture consisting of microscopic growth-lines only. Colour white. Spire subcylindrical, nearly twice the height of the aperture ; outlines rather convex. Protoconch minute. Whorls 5 having a somewhat loosely coiled, and those of the spire swollen, appearance. Suture impressed and lightly margined. Aperture oval-rotund. Peristome continuous, broadly expanded. Columella short, broad, and also expanded. Operculum unknown.
Diameter, 0,66 mm. ; height, 1,94 mm.
Hab.—Whangaroa Harbour, type (C. Traill).
Suter, H. 1913. Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca.