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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 123844
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Created: 2023-05-16 15:12:24 - User Delsing Jan
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Testa ovato-fusiformis, alba, balteo unico fusco interrupto in medio cincta ; spira breviuscula, leviter convexa ; anfractus 5, convexi, spiraliter punctato-sulcati, plicis crassis confertis longitudinaliter instructi; anfractus ultimus elongatus, spiram superans, supra leviter convexus, infra laevissime concavus, paulo attenuatus, rugose liratus; apertura oblonga, mediocriter lata ; labrum tenue, arcuatum ; columella rectiuscula, quadriplicata, plicis crassiusculis, fere aequalibus. Long. 9, diam. 4 mm.
Hab.—The Kowie.
A white shell, with a brown interrupted band near the top of the body-whorl, or about the middle of the shell. In general aspect it is rather more like a Mangilia than a Mitra.
Sowerby, G. B. III. (1900). On some marine shells from Pondoland and the Kowie, with descriptions of seventeen new species