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Calliclava albolaqueata P. P. Carpenter, 1865

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Drilliidae »  genus Calliclava

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Calliclava albolaqueata

Author: Keen, M.

Taxon in country check-lists*

North America: Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama

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Description

The ivory-white shell is sturdy, with prominent, slanting axial ribs, the subsutural area smoothly concave, base with a constricted profile, spiral sculpture particularly strong on the base. Length, 24 mm; diameter, 9 mm. San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, to Panama Bay, at low tide and offshore on muddy bottoms.
Keen, A.M., 1971; Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Lower California to Colombia
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 Calliclava albolaqueata (Carpenter, 1865)]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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