Description
“F. plebeius, sp. nov. Small, fusiform, whorls convex, spirally grooved, and finely transversely plaited; aperture oval, slightly angled; outer lip grooved in the adult; canal short, slightly bent to the left. Purplish, the reliefs darker and browner; inside brownish purple. Length, ·8; breadth ·4; angle of spire, 32°.
Common.”
(Hutton, 1873: 9)
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Suter, H. Manual of New Zealand Mollusca with an atlas of quarto plates. Wellington, N.Z.: Government of New Zealand, 1913.
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Hutton, F.W. 1873. Catalogue of the marine Mollusca of New Zealand, with diagnoses of new species. Govt. Print., Wellington: 116 p.
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Iredale, T. 1915. A commentary on Suter's Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of the New Zealand Institute. 47: 417-497.
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