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Fossarus brumalis Ch. Hedley, 1907

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  family Planaxidae »  genus Fossarus

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Fossarus brumalis

Author: Hedley

Fossarus brumalis

Author: Wilson, B.

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Description

Shell small, thin, globose-turbinate, widely umbilicate. Whorls four, rapidly increasing, parted by impressed sutures. Colour coffee-brown. Sculpture : spiral, elevated, narrow keels, two on the penultimate, five on the last whorl, spaced by flat interstices three times their breadth, the highest on the shoulder, the lowest margining the umbilicus; over all a secondary sculpture of fine, close, spiral microscopic stride. First whorl smooth, dome-shaped. Umbilicus a wide funnel spirally ascending to a narrow perforation. Aperture large, subquadrate, outer lip sharp-pointed at the termination of each keel. Columella straight, slightly reflected over the umbilicus. Height 1,32 mm.; breadth 1,0 mm.
Hedley, C., 1907; The Mollusca of Mast Head Reef, Capricorn Group, Queensland, Part 2.

Distribution

Australia. Queensland. Mast Head Reef, Capricorn Group. Further examples were procured in 1906 off the Hope Islands.
Hedley, C., 1907; The Mollusca of Mast Head Reef, Capricorn Group, Queensland, Part 2.
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 Fossarus brumalis Hedley, 1907]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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