“Pareuthria venustula n.sp., Pl. VI, fig. 17
Shell narrowly fusiform with a tall spire and short canal, very thin, semi-transparent, dull white and without colour markings. Whorls 6 ½, moderately convex but slightly excavated below the suture. Protoconch smooth and glossy, papillate of 2 ½ whorls, the apex flattened, tilted and slightly immersed. Post-nuclear whorls delicately and densely spirally lirate, eighteen to twenty-six lirations on the spire whorls and about fifty-two on the body-whorl. There are numerous slightly sinuous and irregular disposed axial growth lines. The neck of the canal is smooth except for weak axial growth lines. Spire one and a third times height of aperture plus canal. Aperture simple without internal lirations or denticles Outer lip thin. Basal sinus broad and shallow.
Height 13.3 mm.; diameter 5.9 mm. (holotype).
TYPE LOCALITY. St. 388. Between Cape Horn and Staten I., 56° 19 ½’ S, 67° 09" W, 16 April 1930, 121 m. (one living example and several well-preserved empty shells).
DENTITION. Fig. L, 70, p. 194. Typical, with tricuspid central and bicuspid lateral teeth.”
(Powell, 1951: 134)
Pareuthria venustula is een slakkensoort uit de familie van de Buccinidae.[1] De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort is voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1905 door Strebel.
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