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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 81794
Text Type: 1
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Created: 2015-12-06 19:37:39 - User Delsing Jan
Last change: 2015-12-06 19:37:51 - User Delsing Jan
Language: EN
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Shell ovate, thin. Colour uniform white, or white with narrow ochraceous spiral lines. Whorls inflated, six, including the protoconch, which is smooth, subdiscoidal, tilted to one side, and projecting over the next whorl. Sculpture: Ribs broad and rounded, well spaced, discontinuous from one whorl to another, nine on the penultimate, gradually vanishing towards the base; both ribs and interstices overrun by fine dense spiral threads. Aperture wide; lip simple. Length 5.8 mm., breadth 2 mm.
Source, Hedley, 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. (Original description)
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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 81795
Text Type: 3
Page: 0
Created: 2015-12-06 19:38:32 - User Delsing Jan
Language: EN
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Australia. Queensland. Endeavour Reef.