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Ptychatractus occidentalis Stearns, 1873

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Ptychatractidae »  genus Ptychatractus

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Ptychatractus occidentalis

Author: Kantor & Sysoev

Ptychatractus occidentalis

Author: Dall, W.H.

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Description

Shell elongated, fusiform, rather slender, whitish, traversed by narrow, revolving, brownish threads and much wider intervening spaces; suture distinct, spire tapering; aperture oblong-oval, about half the length of the shell; within white, polished; canal short, nearly straight; columella obliquely plicated. Length about 0,75 inch (Stearns.)
TYPE in United States National Museum. Type locality, near Attou Island, Aleutian group, Bering Sea.
Oldroyd, I.S. The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America. Volume II.1.

Distribution

Bering Island to Shumagin Islands, Alaska.
Oldroyd, I.S. The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America. Volume II.1.
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 Ptychatractus occidentalis Stearns, 1873]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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