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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 89268
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Created: 2018-08-11 20:32:51 - User Delsing Jan
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Crassispira tangolaensis: Shell small, biconic, uniformly dark, the extreme tip broken, remaining whorls 8, strongly sculptured; axial sculpture of 12 strong, somewhat retractive ribs, fading out on the base, very faint over the narrow, depressed fasciole but rising to rounded tubercles at the suture; spiral sculpture of very fine, closely spaced threads over the entire surface, on the base every third or fourth thread the strongest; aperture narrow, outer lip thickened, with a small, rounded anal sulcus near the suture; inner lip simple, canal very short, hardly differentiated. The type measures: length, 14 mm.; maximum diameter, 5.4 mm.
Hertlein, L.G. & Strong, A.M., 1951; Mollusks from the W. Coast of Mexico & Central America. Part 10