NMITA: Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America

Strombina Morch, 1952

II. Subgenus Spiralta Jung, 1986.

Morphologic Description: protoconch 3 volutions; outer lip protoconch sinusigerous; sculpture on early teleoconch absent; sculpture on late teleoconch present; axial sculpture predominant; parietal ridge absent; posterior canal absent or weak; thickness outer lip moderate; outer lip not extended adapically; anterior canal weakly recurved; dorsal hump absent; hump to the left of aperture absent.

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(Jung, 1989, Fig. 120.4)

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