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Papuina redempta J. C. Cox, 1873

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Pulmonata - pulmonates »  family Camaenidae »  genus Papuina

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Papuina redempta

Author: Manual of Conchology

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Description

Shell obicularly convex, imperforate, obliquely finely striated from above downwards and backwards with strait striae, and on the last two whorls from behind forwards with interrupted malleated strise, of a dull opaque white color, apex pink, variously ornamented with irregular dark chestnut spots, or with two or more regular broad bands; spire bluntly coniform ; whorls 5, slightly convex, last sharply keeled and shortly deflected in front, base flattened ; aperture quadrilateral, beaked at the periphery of the last whorl, margins joined by a thin pink callus; peristome pink, narrowly reflexed; columella broadly dilated, blending with the pink callus joining the margins, and including the umbilicus. ( Cox.) Alt. 0,72, greater diam. 1,09, lesser 0,84 inch.
Solomon Is.
Differs from P. eros in being larger, and imperforate.
Tryon, G.W. & Pilsbry, H.A.. Manual of Conchology. Second Series. Volume 7.
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 Papuina redempta Cox, 1873]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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