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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 107908
Text Type: 1
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Created: 2021-04-12 01:29:01 - User Delsing Jan
Language: EN
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Shell minute, oval, subrimate, smooth, polished. Colour light reddish-brown. Spire conical, higher than the aperture, outlines slightly convex. Protoconch minute, of 1,5 convex and shining whorls. Whorls 4, convex ; base rounded. Suture impressed. Aperture circular. Peristome discontinuous, but the margins united by a parietal callosity, sharp, not thickened, whitish and semitransparent. Columella arcuate, very slightly reflexed. Operculum unknown.
Diameter, 1 mm. ; height, 1,5 mm.
Hab: Takapuna, type (W. H. Webster) ; Maloney's Reef, Hauraki Gulf (H. S.). Hohoura Bay (R. Buddie) ; near Little Barrier Island, in 20 fathoms (R. H. Shakespear) ; Titahi Bay, Cook Strait (Miss Mestayer) ; near the Snares, in 50 fathoms (Captain Bollons).
Suter, H. 1913. Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca.