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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 102189
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Language: EN
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Shell small, solid, brownish or livid purple, with six whorls; spire rather acute, nucleus worn, but apparently smooth, the succeeding whorls sculptured with strong, flexuous, discontinuous ribs, which cross from suture to suture; the interspaces are wider than the ribs, of which there are nine on the last whorl; suture distinct, somewhat appressed and undulated by the ends of the ribs; aperture long, narrow, with a wide, strong, anal notch, the outer lip strong and heavy; pillar smooth, canal short, not recurved. Length of shell, 7; max. diameter, 3 mm. (Dall.)
TYPE in United States National Museum.
Oldroyd, I.S. The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America. Volume II.1.
Distribution
Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 102190
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Type locality, near Victoria, Vancouver Island, B. C.
RANGE. Known only from type locality
Oldroyd, I.S. The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America. Volume II.1.