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Erycina periscopiana W. H. Dall, 1899

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Bivalvia - bivalves »  family Lasaeidae »  genus Erycina

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Erycina periscopiana

Author: Dall, W.H.

Erycina periscopiana

Author: Mikkelsen & Bieler

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Description

Shell small, pellucid, subquadrate, with the ends bluntly rounded and the dorsal and ventral margins nearly parallel; beaks low, valves compressed, very inequilateral, the beaks being nearly at the posterior fifth of the shell; left anterior lamina very long, rather elevated, with a very small hook, posterior lamina short, nearly obsolete, with an elongated resiliary pit below it; adductor scars small, high up, the anterior narrower, the posterior rounder;1 pallial scar linear; surface polished,smooth,or marked only by incremental lines and very obscure occasional radial striulations. Long. 5, alt. 2.8, diam. 1 mm.
Dall, W.H., 1899. Synopsis of the recent and tertiary Leptonacea of North America and the West Indies.

Distribution

A single left valve was dredged in 22 fathoms off Cape Lookout, North Carolina, on sandy bottom
Dall, W.H., 1899. Synopsis of the recent and tertiary Leptonacea of North America and the West Indies.
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 Erycina periscopiana Dall, 1899]
Data retrieved on: 29 November 2013

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