Nordsieck, F.

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Some new Eulima 
Eulima (Polygyreulima) altirnirai n. sp. 
F. NORDSIECK * 
Holotype 4,5 / 1,2 mm. paratype (one whorl less) 3,6 / 0,9 mrn. Type 
location: S. Pol de mar, in star-fish. 
Description of the holotype: 10,5 flat whorls wilh a visible, not cons- 
picuous, very oblique suture. A delicate spiral-ridge above the suture (see 
figure). Shell nearly totally vitreous and transparent, with a faint diminute 
hice brillantly shining. Styloformed protoconch of 4,5 whorls with blunt- 
roundet nucleus. Body whorl wellinflated and roundet, attenuated at the 
base, measuring more than 113, less than 112 of height. Mouth slender- 
piriform, oblique above, well roundet below. Outer lip not projecting the 
shell-profile, attached with a pointing angle, than somewhat impressed, 
projecting and bended in the middle, withdrawn towards the base, sharp, 
integer. Columella steep, somewhat reflected, opac, with a visible crack 
behind. No visible varices. The shell seems to be adult, but it cannot be 
excluded, that specimens with more whorls may occur. 
Diff-Diagnose: The only species which resembles this new one is the 
new macvophtalmica WAREN 1972 (Sarsia 48). The new differs but from 
that species in: 
1. being nearly 2 mm. smaller but with the same number of whorls. 
2. being not distorted-in the above part, but styliform. 
3. The WARÉN species has no trace of a suprasutural suture-band. 
4. No scars from earlier positions of the outer lip in the new species. 
The mouth however resembles that of the compared species very much. 
Similar are also the oblique suture and the measurement at the body- 
whorl in comparision with the shells-teight. I n  the Mediterranean I do 
not know comparable species. Eulima intermedis CANTRAINE for instance 
is more slender, biggs, and the mouth is not by for resembling the new 
species mouth. If the Monterosato-definition of Polygyreulima (st~liformed 
": 5657 Hsan, Mahnert, 4. Alemania. 
apex) is accepted, the new one belongs to thay subgenus or section, the 
type of which is btermedia CANTRAINE. 
Holotype and Paratype are collected by CARLOS ALTIMIRA, Barcelona. 
Paratype are deposited in the Barcelona Museum of Zoology. 
El autor describe una nueva.Eulima &contrada por C. ALTIMIRA en el interior de ctestvellas 
de mar, en la localidad de Sant Pol, Barcelona. ~a compma con la forma mis pr6xima, 
E. macrophtalntica WARÉN, señalando sus diferencias y ubicándola en el subgbnero Polygyreu- 
lima MONTEROSATO. 
Eulima (Polygyveulima) altimirai n. SP.. 
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Some new Eulima Eulima (Polygyreulima) altimirai n. sp.

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