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Scrinium furtivum Ch. Hedley, 1922

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

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Scrinium furtivum

Author: Hedley

Scrinium furtivum

Author: Laseron, C.F.

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Description

Shell small, very solid, ovate-oblong, rounded at either end. Whorls six, two forming the low protoconch, convex, a little constricted below the suture, which is deeply impressed. Colour vinaceous-buff, sometimes with a white zone its own breadth below the suture, and half-a-dozen evenly spaced narrow white lines on the remainder of the whorl; the columella terra-cotta, and the throat orange-cinnamon with a buff zone. Sculpture: In general the shell is smooth ; on the upper whorls about ten low nodular ribs are scarcely distinguishable ; lines of growth are marked by numerous irregular scratches; a few evanescent spiral grooves may or may not appear on the body whorl. Aperture wide, smooth within, outer lip simple, the sinus represented by an arch of the summit; inner lip a thin callus, which at the basal axis meets at an acute angle a thicker callus rising to form a reflected border to the short and very broad canal; columella vertical, flattened, and a little twisted. Length 7.5 mm., breadth 3 mm.
Source: Hedley, C., 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. (Original description)

Distribution

Australia: New South Wales and Victoria.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Scrinium furtivum Hedley, 1922]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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