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Agathotoma camarina W. H. Dall, 1919

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

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Agathotoma camarina

Author: Jan Delsing

Description

Shell small, white, hexagonal, with a blunt glassy nucleus of a whorl and a half and about five subsequent whorls; surface showing no spiral sculpture under a hand lens; axial sculpture of six strong rounded ribs, running the whole length of the shell and continuous over the spire; suture distinct; aperture narrow, with a relatively large rounded anal sulcus, a thickened outer lip without internal liration. The inner lip simple not callous, the pillar short, the canal hardly differentiated. Height of shell 6 mm.; of last whorl, 4.5 mm.; diameter, 2.5 mm.
Dall, 1919. Original description.

Distribution

Galapagos Islands. Indefatigable Island.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Agathotoma camarina Dall, 1919]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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