Dear Stephen,

on the search program google I found out
Ancristrosyrinx belong to the family of turridae
and should be the same as Cochleospira as genus.
There is a shell Cochleospira cedonulli (Kuroda, 1959)
with best regards
sieglinde


--- Stephen McMahan <[log in to unmask]> schrieb: >
Greetings All,
>
>                      Has anyone every heard of a
> shell called Ancistrosyrinx
> cedonulli (Reeve, 1842)? I bought this shell a few
> years ago with this name
> attached but no other info. It most likely belongs
> in the Astraea family.
> It's 23mm in diameter, 9mm high and looks just like
> a saw blade with 9 very
> sharp spines on each of the 3 whorls. It's all
> nacreous. I can send anyone
> who is interested a set of images. Just let me know.
> Any info on this shell
> would be most helpful.
>
> Shephen McMahan

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