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Cystiscus minor Boyer, 2003

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Cystiscidae »  genus Cystiscus

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Description

Shell ovate, white, or pale horn color, subtransparent; rather thin, smooth; spire slightly elevated; whorls about three (?) with a very indistinct suture; aperture linear; lip rather thin at the margin, thickened behind, posteriorly ascending the spire; columella with two well-developed plaits at the end, with a third one less developed, and sometimes with a fourth which is more or less indistinct. Length, .09; breadth, .063 in. (C. B. Adams.)
Oldroyd, I.S. The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America. Volume II.1.

Distribution

Type locality, Panama.
RANGE. San Pedro, California, to Panama.
Oldroyd, I.S. The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America. Volume II.1.
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 Cystiscus minor Boyer, 2003]
Data retrieved on: 22 November 2013

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