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Charisma candida

Charisma candida is a species of extremely small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.

Description

(original description in Latin) The shell is ovate-conoidal in shape and narrowly rimate. It is white, smooth and glossy, and scarcely opaque. It consists of four and a half convex whorls, and has a nearly circular aperture with a thin, arched lip.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Japan.

References

  • Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 pp.

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