Epitonium melior
(Melvill & Standen, 1903)
Description:
Dimensions range from 6.5 mm - 7 mm high and 2 mm wide.
Width to height ratio: 0.31:1 ~ 0.29:1
Shell: slender, oblong-fusiform; minute. Exterior colour whitish. About 9 whorls; protoconch with ~3 whorls slightly shiny, brownish-white, broad, pyramidal; teleoconch with 4-6 whorls ventricose, closely lamellate, convex. Suture impressed, narrowly open. Imperforate. Approximately 15 - 20 costae on the body whorl. Costae are regular, rounded, blade like. Costae not peaked; beautifully reflexed at the edges, however, Weil et al. [1999:130] describe them as not being reflected. Intercostal spaces very smooth. Aperture round, lip almost continuous, slightly thickened.
Distribution:
Karachi, Pakistan; India [Melvill & Standen, 1903:345]; North Australia and QLD [Weil et al., 1999:130]
Habitat:
not reported
Type Material:
Syntype: NHMUK 1903.12.15.12 for Epitonium melior (Melvill & Standen, 1903) - Locality: Karachi, Pakistan; India. [Brown, L. & Neville, B.D., 2015]
Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R (1903). Plate VII. Fig. 9.
Scala melior sp.n. (PI. VII., fig. 9).
Distribution
as listed in source literature
Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R (1903).
Plate VII. Fig. 9.
Scala melior sp.n. (PI. VII., fig. 9).
pp: 345.
Kaicher, S.D. (1980).
