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species

Clathurella perdecorata (Dall, 1927)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Clathurellidae »  genus Clathurella

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Description

Shell small, translucent white, strongly sculptured, with a nucleus of a whorl and a half and five and a half subsequent whorls; suture distinct, appressed; axial sculpture of (on the last whorl 10, beside the apertural varix) rounded equal ribs with wider inlerspaccs, crossing the whorls hut obsolete more or less on the last half of the last whorl behind the varix; the incremental lines inconspicuous; spiral sculpture of (on the spire 3, on the last whorl 4 behind the suture, and about 16 on the base and canal) sharp threads with subequal interspaces, over riding the ribs; base rounded, canal very short; aperture small, ovate, the outer lip heavily varicose with a thin inflected edge; the anal sulcus large, shallow, and rounded, leaving a very feeble fasciole; the inner lip and body callous, the canal short and wide. Length, 8.5; diameter, 4.3 mm.
Dall, W.H., 1927. Small shells from dredgings off the southeast coast of the United States by the United States Fisheries Steamer 'Albatross' in 1885 and 1886.

Distribution

Off Georgia. USA.
Dall, W.H., 1927. Small shells from dredgings off the southeast coast of the United States by the United States Fisheries Steamer 'Albatross' in 1885 and 1886.
Author: Jan Delsing

Included taxa

Number of records: 1

subspecies Clathurella perdecorata lionta W. H. Dall, 1927

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Clathurella perdecorata (Dall, 1927)]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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