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Pareuthria atrata

Pareuthria atrata

Classification

Pareuthria atrata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cominellidae. Description Shell medium-sized, up to 22 mm in height, fusiform, of six convex whorls; protoconch of 2 ½ convex whorls, translucent, smooth, transition to teleoconch well defined; suture impressed, aperture oval, labrum expanded, sharp, with a small, curved subsutural slit; siphonal canal short; parietal callus very thin; axial ornamentation of about 10 to 12 varices, complete in all whorls but the last, where they vanish below middle whorl; some specimens, only with weak varices on the…

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Chile · 3