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Shell: quite thick, fairly short, conical spire with slightly convex whorls, impressed suture, elongated oval in shape; first turns of the shell are heterostrophe (i.e., the axis of coiling forms an angle to the adult shell's columella; very elongated oval aperture, with a thin and sharp outer lip, columellar lip has a light callus and a deep fold at the base; sculpture consists of thin spiral grooves more marked toward the posterior and anterior edges of the whorls; pink hazel in color, with one or two whitish spiral bands; operculum is horny, pale yellow and transparent. Body: very wide foot, differentiated anteriorly into a podium; head broadens into a cephalic disc which has two lateroposterior lobes, incorrectly called tentacles; eyes are sessile; gill, osphradium and penis are inside the mantle cavity; radula lacks rachidial teeth and has a very large number of lateral teeth. |