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Colus calathus W. H. Dall, 1919

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Colidae »  family Colidae »  genus Colus

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Colus calathus

Author: Dall, W.H.

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Shell small, thin, white under a straw-colored periostracum, with more than six well-rounded whorls, the apex defective; suture distinct, not appressed; axial sculpture of faint incremental lines; spiral sculpture of (on the penultimate whorl, 13) fine, rounded, low, subequal cords with narrower interspaces, the cords at and below the periphery a little more close-set, this sculpture covering the whole shell very evenly; aperture wide, the outer lip thickened and slightly crenulated by the external sculpture, body erased; pillar short, attenuated in front; canal short, wide, slightly recurved. Height of shell, 26; of last whorl, 18; of aperture, 12; diameter, 13 mm. (Dall.)
TYPE in United States National Museum, No. 106864. Type locality. United States Fish Commission Station 2853, near Shumagin Islands, Alaska.
RANGE. Known only from type locality.
Oldroyd, I.S. The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America. Volume II.1.
Author: Jan Delsing

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