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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 89117
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Created: 2018-08-08 12:34:54 - User Delsing Jan
Language: EN
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Shell small, short, subglobular, white, not polished; surface covered with sharp, deep, close set, spiral grooves, minutely punctate at bottom; whorls three, beside the prominent, polished, smooth, globular, sinistral nucleus; suture distinct, not channeled; outer lip thin, simple; body with a thin wash of callus; pillar short, thin, very much twisted, so that its outer edge presents a plaitlike appearance, while the shell seems almost canaliculate, though the pillar is continuous with the basal margin; above the twisted edge and separated from it by a deep channel is a second less prominent plait; altitude of shell, 3; diameter, 2 mm.
Dall, W.H. 1990. Scientific results of explorations by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer “Albatross”. No. VII. Preliminary report on the collection of Mollusca and Brachiopoda obtained in 1887–88.
Interchangeable taxa
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 89119
Text Type: 19
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Created: 2018-08-08 12:37:08 - User Delsing Jan
Language: EN
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This little shell is mostly comprised in the last whorl and appears mature. It recalls Stilifer, or a small snow-white Pedipes, as much as anything, and is different from any recent species of the group I have seen.
Dall, W.H. 1990. Scientific results of explorations by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer “Albatross”. No. VII. Preliminary report on the collection of Mollusca and Brachiopoda obtained in 1887–88.