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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 129606
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Created: 2024-03-07 17:41:48 - User Delsing Jan
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Sayella hemphillii (Dall, 1884) Form 1 short, stout
Distribution: Florida, Texas. Form 2 tall, slender
Size: 5 mm.
Description: Color variable, typically reddish-brown with whitish bands located subsuturally; shape variable from pupoid-conic to elongate-conic with a broad body whorl; sculpture smooth, except for irregular axial growth lines; whorls somewhat rounded; sutures convex, simple; protoconch heterostrophic, immersed into preceding whorl; aperture ovate; columella slightly folded backward toward base; base of apertural lip slightly flared. Habitat: Bays and estuaries; also in beach drift. Depth range 0 to 2 m (6 ft).
Remarks: Shell shape and color variable; can be short and stout (specimen 1) to elongate and slender ( specimen 2). See Ode and Speers (1972g); Ode (1994b, 1995a); Wise (1996). Synonym: S. livida Rehder, 1935-
Tunnell, J.W. , Andrews, J. , Barrera, N.C. & Moretzsohn, F., 2010. Encyclopedia of Texas seashells.