Famelica catharinae
species of Gastropoda
Famelica catharinae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
The species was named for Katharine J. Bush, an American malacologist.
Description
The length of the shell attains 23 mm, its diameter 6.5 mm.
(Original description) The thin, white shell is translucent. It is very slender, elongated, narrow, fusiform, with a long, narrow, tapered, nearly straight siphonal canal, and a tall, gradually tapered, acute spire. It contains eight, evenly rounded whorls. but not very convex, with a distinct, flattened, smooth subsutural band. The suture is well marked, but not deep, decidedly oblique. The surface is everywhere covered with conspicuous, regular, raised, revolving cinguli, in some parts with one or more smaller revolving lines in the spaces between them. The cinguli are obtusely rounded and entirely smooth, as well as the spaces between them, which are of about the same breadth.
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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3713808. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.
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