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Flinders Top Shell
Nanula flindersi Cotton & Godfrey, 1935

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Trochida »  family Trochidae - top-shells »  genus Nanula

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Nanula flindersi - Flinders Top Shell

Author: Wilson, B.

Nanula flindersi - Flinders Top Shell

Author: Cotton, B.C.

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Description

Flinders Top Shell. Shell small, turbinate, narrowly umbilicate, rather thin, dull; colour yellowish, flecked with light brown maculations which tend to form indefinite radial stripes, and are more pronounced on the periphery; spire very short, sutures impressed; whorls four and a half, rounded, sculptured, with spiral lirae which are close and weak; last whorl rounded at the periphery; basal lirae more distant; aperture oval, outer lip simple, columella regularly concave; umbilicus very narrow. Holotype: diameter 3.8 mm., height 3.75 mm.
Cotton, B.C., 1959. South Australian Mollusca. Archaeogastropoda.

Interchangeable taxa

This species differs from Nanula tasmanica Pctterd, from Brown River, Tasmania, in being smaller and more depressed; the spire is much smaller and shorter in comparison with the body whorl
Author: Jan Delsing

Similar species

Nanula galbina (Hedley & May, 1908) - Yellow Top Shell
Nanula tasmanica (W. F. Petterd, 1879)

Links and literature

EN Australian Faunal Directory [1ec845fd-7d07-45ff-8b26-ca40f282d4c4]

ABRS (2009-2019): Australian Faunal Directory [https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/home], Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra [as Nanula flindersi Cotton & Godfrey, 1935]
Data retrieved on: 15 February 2015
EN Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Nanula flindersi Cotton & Godfrey, 1935]
Data retrieved on: 23 November 2013

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