''Perrinia concinna'' is a species of

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mollusk in the family Chilodontidae.Bouchet, P. (2012). ''Perrinia concinna'' (A. Adams, 1864). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=559695 on 2013-04-14

Description

The height of the shell attains 12 mm. The small, solid, imperforate, whitish shell has an ovate-conic shape. The

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s are a little convex, subimbricating, and separated by profoundly canaliculate sutures;. They are finely crenulated below the sutures. They are covered with encircling lirae with the interstices elegantly clathrate. The base of the shell is convex. The oblique aperture is semicircular. The tortuous columella terminates in a tooth. The outer lip subthickened and obsoletely sulcate inside.Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
(described as ''Turcica concinna'')

Distribution

This marine species occurs the Philippines and in the Indian Ocean off

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References

External links

To Encyclopedia of Life

To World Register of Marine Species
* {{Taxonbar, from=Q13465501 concinna Gastropods described in 1864