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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 122078
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Created: 2023-03-21 13:24:54 - User Delsing Jan
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Joculator uveanum (Melvill and Standen, 1896). Length, 2.75 mm; diameter, 1 mm. Shell: ovate, inflated; with three rows of spiral granules; light brown. Spire: protoconch of four subulate, smooth whorls; teleoconch of five convex, inflated whorls; suture wide, oblique. Sculpture: three beaded spiral cords on each whorl, with a fourth spiral on the base of the last whorl, apical spiral largest, the others joined by nearly obsolete spiral threads. Aperture: subcircular; outer lip thin; columella short. Color: light brown, protoconch white. These cerithiopsids are uncommon, found at depths of about 10 m. J. uveanum was described from Lifu.
Kay, E.A., 1979. Hawaiian Marine Shells. Reef and Shore Fauna of Hawaii. Section 4: Mollusca.