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The Atoll of Funafuti, Ellice group : its zoology, botany, ethnology and general structure based on collections made by Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W.
Teinostoma Tricarinata, Melvill & Standen
Teinostoma Tricarinata, Melvill & Standen.
Melvill & Standen, Journ. Conch., viii, 1896, p. 311, pl. xi., figs. 75 a. b. Three specimens occurred on the sandy beach of the Funafuti lagoon. The only other example known came from Lifu.
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Cirsonella Ovata, sp. nov.
(Fig. 3).
Shell globose-ovate, thin, and semitransparent, white, narrowly umbilicate. Whorls five, rounded, smooth, save for delicate growth-striations, margined and contracted below the suture. Aperture oblique, elliptical. Lip sharp, columella reflected. Length, 21/2, breadth 2 mm.
Three specimens from the lagoon beach.