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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 129919
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Created: 2024-05-03 17:19:02 - User Delsing Jan
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Diagnosis: shell pyriform, canal short, shell extremely thin, fragile, reinforced with thicker interior deposition along the columella and final lip; periostracum fibrous in thick axial ridges below suture; axial and spiral sculpture weak or lacking.
Type species: Exiloberingius fragilis McLean & Clark, n. sp. (HD).
Remarks: differs from all other Beringiinae by the excessively thin, poorly calcified shell, and the thick, fibrous periostracum. One Aleutian species.
Mclean, J. H. & Clark, R. N., 2023. Seven new genera and thirty-four new species of buccinoid gastropods (Neogastropoda: Buccinidae) from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska.