GASTROPODA | CINGULOPSIDAE |
Shell minute, conical, close to Eatoniellidae; whorls more or less convex, smooth apart some microspirals and growth-lines; protoconch paucispiral; suture marked; aperture simple; operculum horny, translucent, paucispiral, with an inner peg arising from the nucleus. |
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Eatonina Thiele, 1912:« Protoconch dome-shaped, smooth, of less than 2 whorls. Aperture subcircular to circular, inner lip rather narrow to moderately broad, merging with the weakly and evenly concave columella. Operculum thick, yellowish, transparent, usually with longitudinal, internal ridge; peg strong, straight, short, usually grooved. » – Ponder & Yoo: “ review of the genera of Cingulopsidae with a revision of the Australian and tropical Indo-Pacific species (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)”, Records of the Australian Museum vol.33, Sydney 1981, p.5. |
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