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Author: Nordsieck, F.
Description
With a moderately strong, subcylindric, opaque-white shell, wrinkled longitudinally; apex convoluted, obtuse; volutions four or five, very little produced; aperture nearly the whole length of the shell, narrow, rather more compressed in the middle, dilated at the base; inner lip thickened, smooth, white. Length 0,2 inch, rarely 0,25 inch. Breadth, about half its length. (Montagu.)
Oldroyd, I.S. The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America. Volume II.1.
Author: Jan Delsing
Links and literature
Paleobiology Database [94509]
Paleobiology Database [https://paleobiodb.org/] [as Retusa obtusa (Montagu, 1808)]
Data retrieved on: 11 December 2015
Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Retusa obtusa (Montagu, 1803)]Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013
Repetto G., Orlando F. & Arduino G. (2005): Conchiglie del Mediterraneo, Amici del Museo "Federico Eusebio", Alba, Italy [as Retusa obtusa (Montagu, 1803)]