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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 102460
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Created: 2020-10-23 16:33:07 - User Delsing Jan
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Shell solid, pinkish-white, much attenuated before and behind; spire one-quarter shorter than the aperture. Whorls six, apex mammillated. Posterior surface of the whorls flattened toward the suture, where they are somewhat wrinkled and appressed. Surface of the whorls completely covered with fine even spiral lines. Aperture long and narrow, a thickened callus on the inner lip, and the outer lip slightly reflected. Canal long, nearly straight, rather narrow. Long, of shell, 2.33; of aperture, 1.4; lat. of shell, 1 in. (Dall.)
TYPE in United States National Museum. Type locality, Cook's Inlet, • Alaska.
RANGE. Arctic Ocean to Pribilof Islands, and Bristol Bay.
Oldroyd, I.S. The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America. Volume II.1.