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Scalaria australis, Lam.Hist.6 pt.2.
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Scalaria tenuis (n.s.) Testa conica umbillcata tenuis pellucida albida unifasciata, costis albis tenuibus ereberrimis parum elevatis laevibus, anfractibus contiguis. Shell conical, thin, pellucid, whitish-brown, with a narrow central spiral brown band; whorls contiguous, convex, smooth, with numerous close oblique slightly raised, thin, simple-edged cross ribs; axis umbilicated; umbilicus narrow; mouth small, ovate, orbicular; axis three-eighths, diameter one-fourth of an inch. This shell is most like Scalaria principalis, nob.
Turbo principalis of Pallas, Chemn.
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