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Author: Jan Delsing
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Talassia sandersoni (Verrill, 1884) Sanderson's Cingula
Distribution: North Carolina; Texas. Size: 2 to 3 mm
Description: Color white; shape elongate-conic; sculpture smooth with faint, obscure axial threads; whorls rounded with distinct incised sutures separating whorls; aperture ovate, somewhat pointed at upper outer end; outer lip thin; body whorl delineated from aperture. Habitat: Sandy caliche on nearshore banks.
Remarks: Specimens were collected at Seven and One-half Fathom Reef. See Tunnell and Chaney (1970); Waren and Boucher (1988). Synonym: Cingula sandersoni Verrill, 1884.
Tunnell, J.W. , Andrews, J. , Barrera, N.C. & Moretzsohn, F., 2010. Encyclopedia of Texas seashells.