Description
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 111862
Text Type: 1
Page: 0
Created: 2021-10-18 15:49:16 - User Delsing Jan
Language: EN
Text function: [[t:595705,textblock=111862,elang=EN;Description]]
Shell minute, white, with a small Sinusigera nucleus of three, and four and a half subsequent well rounded whorls, suture appressed and constricted; anal sulcus deep, the fasciole narrow and close to the suture; axial sculpture of 11 prominent rounded ribs with wider interspaces, crossing the whorls from the fasciole nearly to the pillar; spiral sculpture of 4 or 5 fine, sharp threads with wide interspaces, a little swollen where they cross the ribs, and finer threadlets in the interspaces and on the base; base well rounded, pillar short, straight, gyrate with pervious axis; canal short; outer lip arcuately produced, thin, sharp. Length, 4.7; diameter, 2.0 mm. U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 107047.
Two specimens off Fernandina and one off Georgia.
Dall, W.H., 1927. Small shells from dredgings off the southeast coast of the United States by the United States Fisheries Steamer 'Albatross' in 1885 and 1886.