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genus

Austropusilla Laseron, 1954

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Mangeliidae

Description

Laseron, 1954:
Shell minute, translucent, slenderly conical, of a few elongated rounded whorls with fine spiral sculpture. Protoconch short, flattened and smooth. No fasciole area distinguishable. Aperture short and narrow, outer margin simple, sinus deep, narrow and rounded on the shoulder, columella straight, canal short, wide and open.

Description by Powell, 1966:
Shell minute, 3.8-5.6 mm., thin, subcylindrical, with a long narrow body-whorl of almost two-thirds the shell height. Protoconch paucispiral, flattened on top and smooth. Aperture rather long and narrow, tapered to a very short, widely open and very shallowly notched anterior canal. Outer lip thin but with a deep U-shaped subsutural sinus. Adult sculpture of fine spiral threads, sometimes with the addition of a few faint axial plications. Colour of type species translucent amber, the apex purple tinged.
Laseron, 1954. Original description. ; Second description by Powell, 1966.

Interchangeable taxa

Except for the very distinct and well formed sinus the genus resembles a slender columbellid.

Distribution

Range — Recent, New South Wales and Tasmania.
Author: Jan Delsing

Included taxa

Number of records: 2

species Austropusilla hilum Ch. Hedley, 1908

Austropusilla hilum

species Austropusilla profundis C. F. Laseron, 1954

Austropusilla profundis


Links and literature

EN The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [1009248]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [https://www.irmng.org] [as Austropusilla Laseron, 1954]
Data retrieved on: 30 November 2019

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