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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 93563
Text Type: 1
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Created: 2019-05-17 10:38:08 - User Delsing Jan
Language: EN
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Shell slender, elongate, subulate, smooth, shining, subpellucid, white, with a revolving yellowish-brown line just above the suture ; spire very long, cylindrically tapering ; whorls 10-11 ? (apex fractured ; whorls remaining 9) planoconvex, last one slightly produced at the base, under the lens rudely striated with lines of growth ; suture deeply impressed ; aperture oblique, ovate, acutely angular above, lyrate within, lyrae very delicate, several in number, revolving in the interior of the shell; peristome thin, simple ; columella concave, slightly reflexed, and the revolving fold stout.
Length 10,5 mm.
Garrett, A., 1873. Descriptions of new species of marine shells inhabiting the South Sea Islands.