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Shell of the Week: The Waxy Mangelia

José H. Leal

One more member of the large family Mangeliidae, Cryoturris cerinella Dall, 1889) reaches about 12 mm (about 0.5 inch) in length. The shell is very elongate, tower-shaped, with a sculpture of 7–8 strongly angled ribs crossed by fine spiral threads.The aperture spans only about ¼–1/5 of the shell length. The shell color is yellowish­white, changing to (very) light–orange on last whorl.


The Waxy Mangelia, Cryoturris cerinella, from Sanibel. Photos by James F. Kelly.

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