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consists of 2-2½ rapidly expanding (diameter 0.5 mm to 11.5 mm in 2 whorls), smooth, conical, glassy whorls, deflected from coiling axis of teleconch by up to 15°. The transition to teleconch is abrupt, marked by a growth line, and accompanied by the formation of thin parietal callus. The
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teleoconch has up to 3 smooth, inflated, convex, rapidly descending whorls. The
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E. of Phan Thiet, Vietnam, South China Sea, 10°01'00"N, 109°55'00"E
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108:Gastropoda
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262:Volutidae
248:gastropod
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296:suture
255:family
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189:, 1904
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