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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 111855
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Created: 2021-10-18 12:21:36 - User Delsing Jan
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Shell small, inflated, thin, whitish, with an involved spire; surface smooth except for more or less conspicuous incremental lines; apex a small dimple, the posterior commissure of the aperture narrowly rounded, the anterior part expanded, rounded in front, the thin lip passing insensibly into the strongly thickened pillar-lip, with a conspicuous coating of enamel on the body. Length, 4; diameter, 3.5 mm. U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 107932.
Off Fernandina, a single specimen.
The form is slightly pyriform.
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.