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genus

Scrinium Hedley, 1922

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Mitromorphidae

Description

Shell small, oblong, rounded at each end. Whorls few. Protoconch low, dome-shaped. Colour yellow and brown, uniform or variegated. No differentiation of fasciole area. Sculpture of obscure radial ribs and faint spiral grooves. Aperture rather wide, smooth within, the sinus shallow, lip simple, canal short and wide, with an everted margin; columella concave and twisted. Type Mitromorpha brazieri Smith.
Source: Hedley, C., 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. (Original description)
Author: Jan Delsing

Included taxa

Number of records: 5

species Scrinium brazieri E. A. Smith, 1891

Scrinium brazieri

species Scrinium furtivum Ch. Hedley, 1922

Scrinium furtivum

species Scrinium gatliffi Verco, 1909

Scrinium gatliffi

species Scrinium impendens J.C. Verco, 1909

Scrinium impendens

species Scrinium neozelanicum H.H. Suter, 1908

Scrinium neozelanicum


Links and literature

EN Paleobiology Database [11658]

Paleobiology Database [https://paleobiodb.org/] [as Scrinium]
Data retrieved on: 11 December 2015

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