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Teinostoma solida W. H. Dall, 1889

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Littorinimorpha »  family Tornidae »  genus Teinostoma

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Teinostoma solida

Author: Dall, W.H.

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Description

Shell small, solid, stout, ivory white, of three rounded whorls, the last much the largest. Sculpture of fine incremental lines, sometimes faintly wrinkled near the suture; upper surface rounded, subconic, the whorls not impressed at the suture, which is fairly distinct. Periphery rounded, base subconic, umbilicus reduced to a minute chink with a twisted callus above it; aperture circular, oblique, with a triangular callus at each end of the columella; the upper margin declining. Alt. 2.0, max. diam. 2.75 mm.
This is more solid and elevated than any species yet described from this region.
Dall, W.H., 1889 - A preliminary catalogue of the shell-bearing marine mollusks and brachiopods of the southeastern coast of the United States

Distribution

Habitat. Station 19, Lat. 23° 3' N., Lon. 83° 10 W., off Bahia Honda, Cuba, in 310 fms., bottom temperature 62°.0 F.
Dall, W.H., 1889 - A preliminary catalogue of the shell-bearing marine mollusks and brachiopods of the southeastern coast of the United States
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 Teinostoma solida Dall, 1889]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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