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Author: Jan Delsing
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Created: 2021-10-18 16:09:51 - User Delsing Jan
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Shell small, whitish, subtabulate, with a small brownish nucleus of two whorls, the nepionic part of which is unicarinate and the axial threads prominent, followed by four well rounded, strongly sculptured whorls; suture distinct, constricted; anal sulcus deep but narrow, the fasciole narrow and close to the suture, somewhat excavated behind a prominent shoulder, giving a tabulate aspect to the whorls; axial sculpture of (on the last whorl 11) rounded somewhat flexuous ribs with much wider interspaces, the incremental lines obscure; spiral sculpture of numerous equal fine threads, sometimes alternated in size and sometimes not; but in general covering more or less closely the whole shell; aperture subovate, outer lip thin; pillar short, straight with a previous axis. Length, 5.3; diameter, 2.3 mm. U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 10S305.
Off Georgia, nine specimens.
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.