Author: Jan Delsing
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Created: 2021-11-21 20:15:35 - User Delsing Jan
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Shell relatively small, thin, broadly umbilicate; aperture not oblique, nearly circular, peritreme nearly complete; umbilicus bordered by beaded cord. Opercular volutions with fine projecting fringe. Epipodium and radula as described for subfamily. The genus is broadly distributed in world oceans.
McLean J.H. & Gosliner T.M. (1996) Taxonomic atlas of the benthic fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. Vol. 9, Pt. 2: The Mollusca: The Gastropoda.
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