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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 102132
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Shell small, snow-white, with five or more whorls exclusive of the (lost) nucleus; suture distinct, appressed, the fasciole in front of it constricted, giving the whorls a conspicuous shoulder; spiral sculpture of a few obsolete threads on the base, not extending to the canal and with wider interspaces; axial sculpture of (on the penultimate whorl, 16) strong obliquely protractive ribs, most prominent at the shoulder where they begin, disappearing on the base and obsolete on the last whorl; the incremental lines are inconspicuous; aperture rather wide, anal sulcus close to the suture, rounded, rather wide but not deep; outer lip thin, much produced; inner lip erased, pillar short, canal short, deep, distinct, recurved, with a distinct siphonal fasciole. Height of shell, 10; of last whorl, 5.5; diameter, 5 mm. (Dall.)
TYPE in United States National Museum, No. 214206.
Oldroyd, I.S. The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America. Volume II.1.
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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 102133
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Type locality, Station 3346, off Tillamook Bay, Oregon, in 786 fathoms.
RANGE. Known only from type locality.
Oldroyd, I.S. The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America. Volume II.1.