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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 129103
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Created: 2024-01-06 20:18:02 - User Delsing Jan
Last change: 2024-01-07 10:31:32 - User Francesco Vitali
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Diagnosis. Shell fusiform, small, elongated, protoconch small, 2 1/2 smooth, flat, subquadrate whorls; Operculum oval, subterminal nucleus; radula very small, reduced in terms of tooth size and cusp number, rachidian very thin, flat, weak, with one central, triangular cusp; lateral teeth, slightly curved, triangular. Penis long, cylindrical, with a large papilla in the tip, rising from a hole.
Etymology. From micro + dent + euthria, small teeth euthria refers to the small size of the radular teeth. The genus is feminine.
Pastorino, G., 2016. Revision of the genera Pareuthria Strebel, 1905, Glypteuthria Strebel, 1905 and Meteuthria Thiele, 1912 (Gastropoda: Buccinulidae) with the description of three new genera and two new species from Southwestern Atlantic waters