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Novastoa lamellosa (F. W. Hutton, 1873)

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Littorinimorpha »  family Vermetidae - Worm Shells »  genus Novastoa

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Novastoa lamellosa

Author: Suter, H.

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Description

Shell thick, irregularly twisted, with numerous imbricating transverse ridges, which are often reflexed, and obsoletely carinated. Aperture circular; internal septa are present. Operculum hemispherical.
Diameter of aperture, 5 mm.
Type in the Dominion Museum, Wellington.
Hab.— Cook Strait, in deep water (type); Chatham Islands ; Bay of Islands (J. C. Anderson).
Remark.—May be attached to other bodies, or forming unattached large masses.
Suter, H. 1913. Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca.
Author: Jan Delsing

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