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Syrnola gracillima A. Adams, 1860

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Allogastropoda »  family Pyramidellidae »  genus Syrnola

Description

Shell slender and narrowly tapered, smooth and shining, with almost straight-sided whorls. The protoconch is heterostrophic, of helicoid coiling, with the nucleus small, lateral and central, and there is a strong columellar fold.
New Zealand range, Oligocene to Recent.
Powell, A.W.B., 1979. The New Zealand Mollusca: Marine Land and Freshwater Shells.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Syrnola gracillima Adams, 1860]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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