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Orbitestella vera A. W. B. Powell, 1940

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Allogastropoda »  family Orbitestellidae »  genus Orbitestella

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Orbitestella vera

Author: Powell

Orbitestella vera

Author: Ponder, W.F.

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Description

Shell minute, discoidal, thin, transparent, white, widely umbilicate. Whorls 3½, including a minute smooth protoconch of one whorl. Whorls biangulated by a sutural and a basal smooth spiral keel. Spire almost flat, but with a broad straight slightly downward-sloping shoulder; straight and vertical between keels; base lightly convex. Umbilicus one-third diameter of base. Sculpture of numerous inconspicuous radial growth lines only. Aperture subquadrate. Peristome thin, discontinuous.

Height, 0·35 mm.; diameter, 0·8 mm. (holotype).
Holotype in Auckland Museum.
Locality: Tom Bowling Bay, Northern N.Z. (in shell-sand).
Powell, 1940. The Marine Mollusca of the Aupourian Province (Original Description)
Author: Jan Delsing

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