03 Trivia arctica

Opaque shell is white internally and externally, apart from thin external pale-pinkish/pale-brownish layer deposited by external mantle in grooves dorsally and laterally; ribs receive less pigment so paler than grooves.

No pitch-brown/black marks on shell.

Aperture a gently bowed slit along entire height of shell, positioned ventrally on living animal.

1: extension of aperture at posterior forms exhalant-siphonal canal.

2: wide extension of aperture at anterior forms inhalent- siphonal canal.

3: curved groove, and ribs protrude as teeth, but no lip on body-whorl on inner side of aperture.

4: outer (palatal) lip curved out of sight into interior of shell.

Height (longest shell-dimension) 9.6 mm. Ardnamurchan, Scotland. April 1976.

 

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Uploaded on January 1, 2018
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