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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 110726
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Created: 2021-08-17 11:02:18 - User Delsing Jan
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Compressedly convex, cylindrically oblong; umbos terminal; shell white smooth, under a pale yellow highly glossy periostracum; posterior slope divaricately netted with fine purplish lines. Length 30 mm, height 12 mm. Type locality: Twofold Bay, New South Wales. Loc.: Beachport to Gulf St. Vincent, alive, 9-150 fathoms. S.W.A, S.A, Tas, Vict, N.S.W.
Remarks: Tasmanian specimens appear to be similar; those from Western Australia may be a different species.
Cotton, B.C., 1961. South Australian Mollusca. Pelecypoda.