Description
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 81836
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Created: 2015-12-07 17:35:46 - User Delsing Jan
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Shell short, solid, narrowly oval, with a blunt apex and slightly contracted base. Protoconch of two smooth, slightly convex whorls. Spire-whorls four, sloping scarcely convex. Sutures linear. Aperture oval, slightly contracted behind, opening widely into a very short canal in front. Outer lip simple; with a shallow, round sinus near the suture, a convex profile, and a very faint sinus anteriorly. Inner lip a complete, applied narrow glaze. Columella straight, slightly bent to the left in the canal. Faint oblique axial costae, equal to the interspaces; well-marked crowded sinuous accremental stride : no spiral sculpture. Light-brown, with a band of lighter colour on the middle of the spire-whorls, whitish where it crosses the costae ; three light bands on the body-whorl.
Length, 7 mm. ; breadth, 3 mm.
Source: Verco, 1909. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species, Part XII. (Original description)
Distribution
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 81837
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South Australia. Type 40 fathoms off Beachport; 110 fathoms; in 130 fathoms off Cape Jaffa.