Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Papers on Mollusca of Japan
Shell short and broad for the genus, squarish-oblong; very thin, translucent and corneous with whitish streaks and clouds, rather coarsely wrinkled in harmony with the lines of growth. Spire excessively short, obtuse, ?attened above, there being barely two whorls separated by a comma-shaped suture; the last whorl quite convex, its earlier portion very convex. Aperture very large, eleven-twelfths the greatest length of the shell, very broadly ovate in form. Greatest length 'of shell (measured obliquely to the axis) greatest width (measured at right angles to preceding) convexity longest axis of aperture width 8� mm.
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