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Tapered Bubble-shell
Philine teres Hedley, 1903

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Opistobranchia - opisthobranchs »  family Philinidae »  genus Philine

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Philine teres - Tapered Bubble-shell

Author: Hedley

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Description

Shell small, thin, globose, much inflated. Whorls two, last large, rather oblique, contracted below the vertex. Spire concave. Sculpture: microscopic, dense, spiral strings of oval beads, interrupted by growth lines. Colour white. Interior smooth, polished. Columella edge curled, behind it an umbilical groove. Inner lip broadly arched below, sharply recurved above. Outer lip above detached from the whorl and reaching forward. Length, 3 mm.; breadth, 2,5 mm.
The small size, rotundity, curvature of the inner lip and free lobe of the outer one are features which distinguish this species.
A few specimens from off Cape Three Points in 41-50 fathoms; and from off Port Kembla in 63-75 fathoms.
Hedley, 1903, Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis" off the coast of New South Wales, in February and March, 1898, Part 2: Mollusca. Part II. Scaphopoda and Gastropoda.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Australian Faunal Directory [a9738c13-d87a-4a0a-90e2-93ceaa21e613]

ABRS (2009-2019): Australian Faunal Directory [https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/home], Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra [as Philine teres Hedley, 1903]
Data retrieved on: 12 July 2015
EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Philine teres Hedley, 1902]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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