Duplicaria flexicostata

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Duplicaria flexicostata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Orthogastropoda
Superorder: Caenogastropoda
Order: Sorbeoconcha
Suborder: Hypsogastropoda
Infraorder: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Terebridae
Genus: Duplicaria
Species: D. flexicostata
Binomial name
Duplicaria flexicostata
(Suter, 1909)

Duplicaria flexicostata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Terebridae, the auger shells.

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[edit] Distribution

This species is endemic to the North Island of New Zealand.

[edit] Shell description

The shell is taller and narrower than Duplicaria tristis, and has much more rapidly increasing whorls, with the axial sculpture subobsolete, but fine spiral striae are still present.

The shell coloration varies from uniformly dark shining reddish-brown to almost white, with only the early whorls and lower half of the base reddish-brown. Other variants are dark brown, relieved by a spiral narrow pale zone that may be either sub or supra-sutural.

The shell height is up to 22 mm, and the maximum width is 6 mm.

[edit] Anatomy

Members of this genus have a radula which has simple, curved, non-barbed marginal teeth.

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