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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 111851
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Created: 2021-10-18 12:00:52 - User Delsing Jan
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Shell small, short, stout, whitish, smooth, the apex perforate in the young, closed and funicular in the adult; aperture as long as the shell, the outer lip raised slightly above the level of the spire, the aperture very narrow behind, ample and evenly rounded in front; pillar short, thin, slightly arcuate, showing no indication of a plait; surface feebly marked by incremental lines. Length, 2.6; diameter, 1.5 mm. U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 108266.
Off Georgia, six specimens.
This is the smallest and most thickest relatively, of the east coast species.
Dall, W.H., 1927. Small shells from dredgings off the southeast coast of the United States by the United States Fisheries Steamer 'Albatross' in 1885 and 1886.