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Cochliolepis striata W. H. Dall, 1889

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Littorinimorpha »  family Tornidae »  genus Cochliolepis

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Cochliolepis striata

Author: Tunnell et al.

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Description

Distribution: Florida to Texas.
Size: Diameter 6.5 mm; altitude 2.0 mm. Description: Color translucent white in live or fresh material to opaque in dead specimens; shape discoid, not planispiral, shell thin; sculpture of many fine spiral threads and numerous wavy, irregular axial growth lines; spire flat with the first nuclear whorl smooth, remaining nuclear whorls covered with a thin, translucent callus; adpressed whorls on teleoconch; umbilicus constricted with numerous fine radial growth lines; aperture oblique to ovate with upper apertural margin projecting forward of lower margin with a slight angle at the upper margin; operculum thin and flexible.
Tunnell, J.W. , Andrews, J. , Barrera, N.C. & Moretzsohn, F., 2010. Encyclopedia of Texas seashells.
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 Cochliolepis striata Dall, 1889]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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