The diagnosis of Microstelma comes from Bruce Marshall, malacologist
at the Museum of NZ. I informad Simon of this, and he now lists it as
Microstelma ?nsp.

It lacks any sort of distinct siphonal canal, having just a slight
upward curvature of the labrum, as do some cerithioids and rissoids,
but not conids; the umbilical position is wrong for conids also. The
sutural sinus agrees with both conids and Rissoidae.

Andrew

>It resembles some species of Conopleura, eg. C. striata Hinds, 1848, but
>that species has a more compressed shell and a narrower aperture.
>
>Smriglio et al.,  1999: Description of a new species of Conidae Fleming,
>1822 from the Mediterranean Sea. Bollettino Malacologico Italiano,
>34(1-4): 27-32.

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