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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 81790
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Created: 2015-12-06 19:28:12 - User Delsing Jan
Language: EN
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Shell small, solid, biconical. Colour dull white, apex pink. Whorls six, including the protoconch. Sculpture : Ribs prominent, discontinuous from whorl to whorl, projecting at the periphery and gradually vanishing on the base; nine on the penultimate; very many and close spiral threads overrun both ribs and interstices; two spirals, larger and wider spaced than the rest, traverse the periphery and ascend the spire. Aperture: The mouth is protected by a thick varix, from which a free limb, insinuate at the base, projects into the aperture; sinus semicircular; canal short and open. Length 5.5 mm., breadth 2 mm.
Source, Hedley, 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. (Original description)
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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 81791
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Created: 2015-12-06 19:29:23 - User Delsing Jan
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Australia. Queensland. Albany Pass, Murray Island , Hope Island.