Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 94744
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Created: 2019-07-01 11:08:50 - User Delsing Jan
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Shell solid, lenticular, with a low, rather sharp-pointed spire and a decided peripheral keel, the last whorl decidedly descending at the aperture; upper surface sculptured with low, revolving ridges and a series of rather strong radiating ribs; on the base there are from five to eight strong revolving ridges separated by deep grooves; lips strongly ridged within; basal tooth of the columella horizontally compressed. Color white with small brown spots; on the base the spots occur on the ribs.
Height, 10; diameter, 13 mm.
Dall, W.H. & Simpson, C.T., 1901. The Mollusca of Porto Rico.
Pfleger V. (1999): České názvy živočichů III. Měkkýši (Mollusca), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 108 pp. [as Modulus modulus (LINNÉ, 1758)] Data retrieved on: 11 November 2013
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