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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 94577
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Created: 2019-06-23 23:39:16 - User Delsing Jan
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Shell small, solid, strongly sculptured, with two smooth nepiouic and six subsequent whorls; region of the canal and prominences on the ribs whitish, the rest of the shell yellowish brown with a dark reddish brown flauunule in the valley between each pair of ribs; sculpture essentially as figured, ribs seven or eight, the outer lip much thickened behind and thin at-the outer edge, lirate within; pillar and throat yellowish.
Length, 10; maximum diameter. 4 mm. Mayaguez Harbor, Porto Rico.
This very pretty little species has a general resemblance to several others, but when a close comparison was made seemed to be not identical with any recorded from the region or contained in the National Museum.
Dall, W.H. & Simpson, C.T., 1901. The Mollusca of Porto Rico.