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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 99830
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Created: 2020-04-03 20:18:22 - User Delsing Jan
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Shell small, solid, 8 mm in height, claviform, with tall spire and truncated anterior end. Whorls 8, including a small broadly rounded smooth protoconch of 2 whorls. Subsutural fold prominent, medially carinate. Whorls medially sculptured with strong bluntly rounded knob-like axials set on a blunt angulation. These knobs appear to be between 7-8 per whorl. Spiral sculpture is represented by about five strong nodulose cords on the base, followed by about five weaker smooth spiral cords on the anterior end. Colour pale reddish brown. This species belongs to the incon¬stans group, and is characterised by the relatively few, but strong rounded peripheral nodules, and again in the paucity of the basal spirals, which nevertheless are quite strongly nodulose.
Powell, A.W.B., 1969.The family Turridae in the Indo-pacific. Part 2: The subfamily Turriculinae.