Cerithium novaehollandiae

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Cerithium novaehollandiae
Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.173800 - Cerithium novaehollandiae Sowerby, 1855 - Cerithiidae - Mollusc shell.jpeg
Shell of Cerithium novaehollandiae (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center) -
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Cerithiidae
Genus: Cerithium
Species:
C. novaehollandiae
Binomial name
Cerithium novaehollandiae
Synonyms [1]

Cerithium vignaliG.B. Sowerby III, 1912

Cerithium novaehollandiae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cerithiidae. [1]

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Description

The length of the shell (incomplete) is 18.7 mm, its diameter 9.4 mm.

The shell is medium in size, flat-sided, slightly turreted. The sculpture consists of strong narrow, slightly curved axial folds that are swollen near the suture, both above and below. The body whorl has three slightly beaded spirals that are more prominent than those intervening, the spiral at the periphery the largest. Below the periphery, on the base, are several prominent spirals, the one nearest the periphery the largest. A broad varix is present on the body whorl opposite the aperture. The inner lip callused and slightly detached. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs from Borneo to New Caledonia; also off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia)

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