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Granulina anxia Ch. Hedley, 1909

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Granulinidae »  genus Granulina

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Granulina anxia

Author: Hedley

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Description

Shell small, broadly ovate, involute, a heavy and broad callus
spread over each end. Colour milk-white. Adult smooth and glossy; immature shell with fine close spiral punctate grooves. Aperture crescentic, canaliculate at either end. Outer lip thickened and reflected, finely closely denticulate within. Inner lip with a thick callus deposit. In the young there are five columeliar plaits decreasing gradually in size, the least about the centre of the aperture; in the adult, two large, and one small plait alone are visible. Length 2,2; breadth 1,6 mm.
A few specimens, from 8 fathoms, Weary Bay. I also took it, in 15 fathoms, off the Palm islands; and in 17-20 fathoms, off Mast Head Reef.
Hedley, C., 1909. Mollusca from the Hope Islands, North Queensland.
Generally minute in size, rotund, spire completely involute, white or yellow, smooth and polished. Aperture with a rounded outer margin, commencing on the summit of the shell, varix not heavy, but the margin infolded and thickened, outer lip finely dentate within, rounded anteriorly and without a sinus. Inner margin generally multiplicate, the 2 anterior plications strong and oblique, those above generally weak, often quite within the aperture and invisible from in front.
Laseron, C. F. (1957). A new classification of the Australian Marginellidae (Mollusca), with a review of species from the Solanderian and Dampierian zoogeographical provinces.
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 Granulina anxia (Hedley, 1909)]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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